Tim McCarver was a great catcher who caught many of Bob Gibson's classic games.
Gibson had a nasty slider.
Present-day Tim McCarver works with Joe Buck on the FOX play-off broadcasts as a babbling, cringe-worthy color commentator whose entire lexicon often seems to center on that pitch.
During last night's Dodgers/Phillies game, McCarver was even more insipid than usual, yammering incessantly with his fool's gold of repetitive minutiae rather than dropping timely pearls of wisdom.
Tim, you are there to provide color, not to stage a one-man filibuster on the wondrous beauty of a well-twirled slider or fill every second of dead air with your hot air.
Vin Scully works alone and says more with less than the Buck/McCarver team who never shuts up.
I'll turn the FOX volume down tomorrow night and pipe in Vinny via the local radio feed on my computer.
Good baseball broadcasts require a cadence, a cadence requires space between beats, and I already know what a slider is.
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