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Posted By: jay behrens
"That's what happens when you get your balls low in the strike zone." |
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Posted By: John S
I hear that they naturally migrate there as one ages. As for McCarver, he may have taken too many foul balls on the face mask. Sometimes when he opens his mouth I just cringe. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
When McCarver first began calling Mets games he was one of the most respected broadcasters in baseball. Over the years his reputation has clearly taken a hit. Don't know why. He is certainly knowledgeable, but he seems to rub people the wrong way. Must be those low balls. Maybe he should switch from boxers to briefs. |
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Posted By: Andrew Parks
McCarver is the best. One of the complaints that people say about McCarver is that he dissects plays and replays over and over, but I love that. I certainly have learned a lot of baseball from the man. They also can't stand his mouth and jokes. I don't seem to mind that too much. I have also heard people just plain say he's an idiot and knows nothing about baseball and his commentary is foolish. Well, the man caught in four different decades and that's a tough pill to swallow. |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
Andrew i cant stand McCarver for basically the reason youve mentioned but i remember the day i totally stopped listening to a word he said.About 3-4 years ago he made an obvious mistake on air about baseball rules and then he took 2 1/2 innings to explain and defend himself and didnt mention one thing that was happening during the game,and he had them show the replay over and over.There was 2 people over the house watching the game with me and we were just sitting here yelling at the tv for him to shutup and call the game,I hated him long before that but that was just too much.He was so wrong but he wanted to change the way baseball has been played forever just so he would be right in this instance |
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Posted By: Josh Adams
I lost all respect for McCarver during last year's World Series. He was basically rooting for Houston. |
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Posted By: Jason L
everyone was rooting for Houston. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Geez, I didn't mean for this to turn into a McCarver bashing thread. I just thought what he said was absolutley hillarious. It belongs with classic calls like these: |
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Posted By: Jason L
is there a collection of these sort of quotes somewhere? I could use some lighthearted fare during this combination of earnings & campaign season... |
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Posted By: t-205
www.shutupmccarver.com i think |
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Posted By: jay behrens
There was a paperback book publsihed about 20 years ago with all sorts of great quotes from broadcasters, but I can't remember the name it. You might try an internet search for sports quotes to see what turns up. |
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Posted By: Mike Campbell
When you watch baseball, or football for that matter, you hear tons of, what i would guess would be, unintentional references to "balls" "holes" "cracks" etc. etc. My wife just shakes her head. I heard a hilarious one in the recent playoffs, but I can't recall the exact words, but it was something like " He's great at getting his balls through the hole". Something like that. Once again, my wife just smiled. I knew she heard it, even though she wasn't paying much attention to the game. |
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Posted By: Cobby33
He was also rooting for Anaheim in the '02 WS. |
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Posted By: robfouch
Not a sports announcer, but somewhat sports-related: |
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Posted By: Mike
Josh, October 25 2006, 10:22 AM |
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Posted By: howard
In the NLCS (game 7, I think) a slow roller was hit to Scott Rolen with a man on first. Rolen fielded it easily but then air mailed over Pujols' head. McCarver immediately and emphatically said that Rolen threw it away because he looked to second base before throwing to first. A replay clearly showed that Rolen never looked at second. It seemed that Rolen had merely non-chalanted the throw. Instead of admitting his mistake McCarver actually said that you could not see it from that replay and then let it drop without showing any replays from other angles. What an ego! |
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Posted By: Jeff Drum
As a youngster growing up just south of St. Louis I loved McCarver as the catcher of three World Series teams (64/67/68). In fact I think (I think) he is still the only catcher to steal home in a WS game. |
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Posted By: Chris Counts
Everybody rooted for Houston? I don't know a soul who was rooting for Houston. But I live in California, where it's customary to root against Texas teams (remember the energy crisis here a few years back?Texas hasn't lived that down yet around here) ... |
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Posted By: T206Collector
...but he is getting more cringe-worthy as he ages. (Aren't we all?) |
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Posted By: Andrew Parks
John - |
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Posted By: ramram
Thanks Jay. Those quotes had me rolling. I had to go try to find some more but only had limited success: |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
Andrew,if McCarver made 1 mistake a couple years ago id have no problem with him but that was just an extreme example.I dont have time to list all his mistakes and long diatribes that made no sense,and i have alot of free time.The Pirates poll just proves its a popular opinion,and i started the poll after a thread that was bashing him already had started with only one person out of about 20 responses defending him. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Numbers 1, 8 and 10 all urban myths that never occured.Number 8 usually has hugging replaced by kissing. I think a few others might be urban legends too. I'd have to go look at snopes.com to make sure. Basic rule of thumb with any quote like that is, if it can't be attributed to a particular source, then it probably didn't happen that way. |
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Posted By: David McDonald
From the web: Once Carson asked Arnold Palmer why his wife always went to tournaments with him. He replied, "She brings me luck." Carson asked his wife what she did to bring her husband luck and she innocently replied, "I kiss his balls." Carson deadpanned his reaction while the audience went wild with laughter and Mrs. Palmer flushed red. When the laughter died down Carson said, still deadpan, "I guess that must straighten out his putz." |
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Posted By: andy becker
i like mccarver. i think he does a nice job. all anouncers make errors.....no question. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Here is the link from Snopes.com. They explain the whole "kissing him on the balls" myth which is traced all the way back to Dizzy Dean. |
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Posted By: Jeff Drum
I think that this is simply a matter of; "You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to." I happen to like Joe Morgan as a commentator but often find myself in the minority when that subject coms up. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. |
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Posted By: howard
During a slam dunk competition years ago Barry blurted out a line he must have rehearsed the night before: "That was a Chinese dunk! He came in on a slant!" |
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Posted By: Mike
Principal Skinner: "That's it Nibbles, now chew through my ball sack". |
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Posted By: howard
When I was an apartment building handyman and I was fixing a mouse hole in a girl's apartment: |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
No offense... |
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