OK, McCarver's not fat, but he is an idiot.
Watching Fox baseball coverage on Saturday afternoons can be especially trying, especially when the formerly entertaining and informative Tim McCarver is in the broadcast booth.
He continues to give out just plain wrong information, as well as unsubstantiated innuendo, during these games. When Johnny Damon came up early in today's game, he started talking about the Yankees signing Judas over the winter. He said that the Red Sox had offered him the same amount of money, but only for three years.
Absolutely wrong. The Sox front office never offered Damon $13 million a year. At first their offer was a lowball, three -year, $27 million deal. They eventually upped it to a four year, $40 million contract. As we all know, the Yankees went to $13 million a year deal for four years, which Judas and that bastard of an agent, Scott Boras, took without giving the Red Sox brass a chance to match. (Not that they would have, but they could have had the class and courtesy to let them try.) Of course, McCarver NEVER mentions this.
Then later in the game as he was filling time as the game got out of hand, McCarver once again brought up that urban myth that Jon Lieber once mentioned on The Tim McCarver Show back in 2005. Lieber claims that a "number of Red Sox players," before the start of Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, went up to a few Yankee players and "congratulated" them and wished them well on their presumed trip to the World Series. McCarver brings this subject up EVERY time there is an extended conversation about the 2004 Red Sox and their championship.
Of course, Lieber did not mention any names in that interview, and never has to ANYONE else. As far as I'm concerned, Lieber is a gutless coward for not doing so, and is totally full of BS in my opinion. And McCarver is equally to blame for not pursuing this from any other source, so he should keep his damned mouth shut about it.
I have NEVER heard this nonsense from anyone else connected with either those Yankees or Red Sox teams, and I have never seen a newspaper article about this, or mentioned in any book on the Red Sox or that legendary postseason.
Let's be honest here. Don't you think a shitstirrer like Dan Shaughnessy would love to write an extended article about this if it were true? I'll bet there's probably no truth whatsoever here, so even a blowhard like CHB won't touch it.
But it bothers me when I hear McCarver shooting off his big mouth all the time about this urban legend. Until Lieber or someone else names names here, it's complete BS in my opinion. I was at my friend Ruth's house in the Bronx today listening to this palaver, and it sent me off on an extended rant to my friends. (Sorry about that guys.)
No wonder why Tim McCarver is maybe the second most hated man in the media by Red Sox Nation. That is, after Dan Shaughnessy.
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