Get to the f'ing point

Yes this is really a professional broadcaster, rambling on and on aimlessly while a game is being played. What is the point he is leading to? The history of the Cardinals' "storied franchise"? Jack Clark's TV work? Whitey Herzog going into the hall of fame? Something about Lou Brock? Who the hell knows.

Sarge laugh derisively at TMac's idiocy

What a night.

We Lose, How About That!!!

Home run call from tonight's game

"A Little Dead Air Could Do Wonders"

Great article about McCarthy:
http://blog.pennlive.com/davidjones/2010/05/a_little_dead_air_could_do_won.html

excerpt:

Everyone I know around the Phillies and Saint Joseph's basketball vouches for McCarthy, about what a super guy he is. So, in essence, none of what I'm about to write matters much at all. His friends love him as a man and he has lots of friends, that much is apparent.

I just wish he would shut up once in a while. In basketball, they call it letting the game come to you. I want McCarthy to let the game come to him more often. A lot more often.

Baseball is a marathon, both in game-form and season-form. Nine innings commonly take over three hours anymore. The season lasts seven months. It's a game for sipping not guzzling.

Not only does McCarthy talk too much, he does it with that voice of the golden-throated pitchman, as if I'm being sold to nonstop. It's like spending an evening with a Realtor. I'm already on-board with the Phillies. I don't need them sold to me.

Everything is over the top. Even promotional segments between innings delivered with that gee-whiz voice. The effect is this: When something awesome happens, like Roy Halladay's perfect game, it just sounds like another 100-decibel pitch out of McCarthy's mouth.

Tambourine Giveaway

More from the "Mike Piazza Territory" game

TMac must've been really on top of his game this night. Here's two more excited home run calls for the other team, with an awful transition to go with it. 4/27/09.