RIP Tim McCarver

[MSOrange]

 

[SWC75]

Tim McCarver, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

He won six Emmys, was referenced on “Family Guy” and made cameos in movies.

www.syracuse.com

Some people didn't like him but I thought he was great. I Iearned more baseball listening to him than everyone else combined. Nowadays everybody does it like Tim or tries to.

 

[sutomcat]

Tim McCarver, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

He won six Emmys, was referenced on “Family Guy” and made cameos in movies.

www.syracuse.com

Some people didn't like him but I thought he was great. I Iearned more baseball listening to him than everyone else combined. Nowadays everybody does it like Tim, tor tries to.

He was one of the best analysts for baseball ever.

Maybe got a little full of himself later in his announcing career but I agree for a long time, broadcasts of games he did were on another level.

RIP Tim.

 

[UnknownOrange]

Man that stinks. I remember big Saturday games, big Fox playoff games... I loved McCarver. Joe Buck... meh (although IMO he's gotten better -- and that's not the point of any of this)

RIP Tim McCarver

 

[Day2]

He was one of the best analysts for baseball ever.

Maybe got a little full of himself later in his announcing career but I agree for a long time, broadcasts of games he did were on another level.

RIP Tim.

He went back to doing home Cardinal games a few years ago and was terrific.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[bevosu]

Solid ballplayer who knew the game.

Unfortunately, he could be a little overbearing with a propensity to overwhelm with his knowledge of the game monologues. I hope he toned it down a little in his later broadcasting years.

Not to say the information that he imparted wasn't inciteful, it generally was.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Sad stuff. I hate being this age. These remembrance threads are all familiar to me now.

RIP Tim.

 

[Symphony Steve]

I thought he was great. He was a fan of a lot of stuff outside baseball.

My absolutely favorite example of this came on a Saturday Game Of The Week featuring the Mets. The camera panned outside Shea to show late arrivals scurrying to the park from the train station.

Without missing a beat, McCarver said, "And another hundred people just got off of the train."

That was a line from 'Another Hundred People' from the Broadway show 'Company' written by my Musical Mount Rushmore occupant Stephen Sondheim. McCarver didn't need to say anything else, and he didn't. He knew that the people who got it would get it. Oh, the song?:

 

[MSOrange]

Joe Buck 'owes' Tim McCarver for helping him through a fragile time in his broadcast career

Joe Buck is one of the country’s most renowned sportscasters and he owes much of his success to the late Tim McCarver.

awfulannouncing.com

 

[SWC75]

Rosenthal: Remembering Tim McCarver, the ideal teammate in broadcasting and baseball

McCarver, who played 21 years in the major leagues and went on to a Hall of Fame broadcasting career, died Thursday at 81.

theathletic.com

 

[SUFaninNJ]

I’ll admit that I was never a fan of his. He officially lost me when he said, “Danny Heep is the first DH in World Series history to have the initials DH.” Now I like trivia, but his flair for the banal was too much for me. He seemed to be a nice guy and it’s always sad to lose someone. RIP