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...McCarver is the lead baseball analyst for Fox Sports
...losing streak seems like just a few bad days at the office. "I defy anybody to say that there has ever been a team who will be a more sentimental favorite on the American sports scene than the Chicago Cubs will be this year," says Fox baseball analyst Tim McCarver...
...watercoolers - except on the TV ads that play on his feisty image. "With his reputation, you're expecting this guy to be yelling and screaming every day," says Chicago first baseman Derrek Lee, a Cub since 2004 (Piniella joined the team last season). "It's not really like that." McCarver, a longtime friend of Piniella's, has seen a new Lou too. "His transformation has been more than subtle," he says. Yes, he's still brutally honest with his players, but he's pulled back the histrionics. He's been ejected just twice this year. "When...
Then comes October: football season and playoff time, an awkward coexistence. October throws baseball under the rug for days-long stretches, and then FOX throws baseball at your face. Jeanne Zelasko, Kevin Kennedy, and Ken Rosenthal are the network’s on-air talents. Tim McCarver still broadcasts games. And they wonder why ratings are down...
...novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company as he roves bedraggled backwoods ball parks in search of talent, he hunts down the aging grandmaster Bob Gibson in retirement, and he joins Shakespeare-quoting baseball announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged to follow the chronology of the season rather than of the century, a configuration that doesn't make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring...