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Deion Sanders Earned Hall of Fame Spot Despite Some Missteps Off Field

It was a big weekend for the former Atlanta Falcons cornerback Deion Sanders. He got in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for being a great football player. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, but his performance off the field makes you wonder about his judgment. He was part of the Dez Bryant fiasco and cost Bryant half...

The Dugout: Ten or More Huey Lewis Jokes

Before yesterday's Giants/Phillies NLCS game, 1980s hitmaker Huey Lewis of the band "Huey Lewis" announced the starting lineup for the Giants and sang the National Anthem. He's got a new album coming out, entitled "you don't care what this album's title is," to be released at some point in the semi-near future. I am old...

The Dugout: Little Giants

Or, if you'd prefer, The Dugout Playoff Coverage: Day, oh, let's say 13? The playoffs allow me to closely watch and follow teams I don't normally follow, like the San Francisco Giants. Apparently this is the first time Joe Buck and Tim McCarver have ever seen the Giants, too, because they are either working their...

Tim McCarver a Frick Award Finalist

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- Tim McCarver, Rene Cardenas, and Jacques Doucet are among the 10 nominees for the Ford C. Frick Award. Also nominated for the award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, are: Dizzy Dean, Tom Cheek, Graham McNamee, Bill King,...

Tim McCarver Escapes Punishment for World War II Analogy

Fox baseball analyst Tim McCarver will not be sanctioned for his use of World War II imagery into a discussion of the treatment of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre by the club during Saturday's broadcast. In the middle of relaying his feeling that the Yankees organization had not treated Torre properly after he...

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Tim McCarver Believes Climate Change Has Led To More Home Runs (VIDEO)

Tim McCarver isn't just a baseball announcer, no, he's also evidently an amateur meteorologist.

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06/01/12 Tim McCarver thinks Bryce Harper needs a talk Source: D.C. Sports Bog (Al Behrman - AP) I'm absolutely positive that in 30 years, there will be things young people do that annoy me.
05/29/12 Tickets to Phillies Alumni Luncheon On Sale Wednesday Source: MLB - Philadelphia Phillies Seniors 55 and over are invited to relive history at the 3 rd annual Phillies Alumni Luncheon on Thursday, August 9, 11:30 a.m. â 2:30 p.m., in the Diamond Club at Citizens Bank Park.
05/14/12 MLB broadcasters willing to overlook best-ticket... Source: New York Post - New York NY Rather, we must not be seeing things.
05/03/12 Tim McCarver, global atmospheric scientist Source: IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS... caught. "It has not been proven, but I think ultimately it will be proven that the air is thinner now, there has been climatic changes over the last 50 years in the world and that is one of the reasons that balls are carrying much better now than I remember."
05/02/12 Was McCarver's Global Warming Remark out of Left Field? Source: TMCnet Tim McCarver, baseball commentator for Fox, raised the temperature during a Cardinal-Brewers game last Saturday.

Background on Tim McCarver

James Timothy "Tim" McCarver (born October 16, 1941) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher, and a current sportscaster in residence for Fox Sports.

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