He also gets players mixed up all of the time and gets a lot of facts incorrect. It's unfortunate, but it is time for him to get out of the live broadcast business and move on to analysis and interviews where he can write things down ahead of time and have them fact-checked. It happens to all of us as we get older, but it gets really annoying after awhile to have to listen to it.
-- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> McCarver was once a top TV analyst - back in the Reagan administration. He >> hasn't been for a long time now. > > McCarver knows baseball, which is what you want in a color > commentator. I think the problem is that he has been at it so long > that we already know what he thinks about everything and he isn't > bringing anything new. Everything he says sounds like something you > heard before and it's because you have at some point over the years. > If FOX had a rotation of announce teams (and it makes no economic > sense for them to do so) McCarver would be a lot less grating. > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
