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Tim McCarver

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Tim McCarver (born 1941) is America's greatest living baseball broadcasting embarrassment.

A former major league catcher (http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mccarti01.shtml) for the Cardinals, Red Sox, Expos and Phillies, McCarver used to be a good color commentator for various broadcast networks in the 1980s and early 1990s. It is generally agreed that in the 1990s and 2000s his work for MLB on FOX has been subpar. In particular, he is believed to have developed a blind love for Derek Jeter and a weakness for strained poetry.

Pitcher Bill Lee referred to McCarver as "Ol' Third Inning" in his book The Wrong Stuff. According to Lee, McCarver would always go to the clubhouse to drop a deuce during the third when he was a backup catcher for the 1974-1975 Red Sox.

McCarver once sang a verse of "All Shook Up" in the booth during a Mets game in the 1980s. The king of bad puns, he once was a lot of fun, but that was decades ago.

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