I like Boston in 6, and Tim McCarver will make 5000 dumb statements.

I agree with Mookie, Sox in 6.

Along the lines of the live blog (which I love), for those of you who think you can broadcast better than Tim McCarver (i.e. all of you), you should try out a new site called YouCastr, which lets anyone broadcast live audio commentary during the game. Or you can listen to a real fan who is doing their own commentary, and chat live with other fans. And it's all free.

Let's go Sox!

-Ariel

I say... who cares??? Let basketball season commence!

Enjoy McCrapper, I am not watching the World Series

Boston couldn't use two more white guys to have an all-caucasian promo?

I like the Rockies in 5.

I say Sox in all seven games - it comes down to a game seven at Fenway. The best part of the series, aside from the series...

...Good 'ol Tim.
Woohoo.

Rox will sweep

Ah, Tavares, what a great funk band.

How has Josh Beckett been rested, and what about ARod?

Buck's ahead of McCarver in the early going.

"Matsui has been a completely different guy since he left NY."

Well, if you mean that he's gone from being a banjo hitter in a pitcher's park to a banjo hitter in the best hitter's park in baseball, you're right. Except that says nothing about the player.

Simmons just pitched a tent.

"Boy, they are ready." Buck

Wow, Joe. Maybe that's because they've only had a two day layoff rather than the ungodly 8 days off the Rox have had. Good job, MLB. You should penalize Colorado for sweeping the D-Backs.

What exactly is shocking about a guy who "disdains" OBP doing something (sac bunt) that would lower his OBP tim?

Big Papi disdains OBP? First I heard of it. The guy had a .445 OBP this year...

Don't shoot the messenger nhz, just going by what the all-knowing McCarver says. He is wise.

Have they had the mandatory hourly Yankees update yet? I'm sure the rest of the civilized world is waiting with baited breath...

Who is worse McCarver or Lugo?

Gotta vote for Lugo. at least Tim gets a couple of things right a game.

Welp, might as well go to bed early...

phil - but...shooting the messenger is so much fun! :D

I was ragging on McCarver, not you. :)

Double for Tulo. 3-1.

This umpire is the one hitters and pitchers both hate, the expanding and contracting strike zone.
You never know from pitch to pitch if it'll be a strike or not.

For those of you who 8:15 (Central) in the office pool for the first Dane Cook promo...congratulations.

Also, did anyone notice Hurdle taking notes after Manny's laser to left?

Pedroia - Walk him
Youk - Walk him
Ortiz - Watch for bunt, walk him
Manny - Walk him

"16 of the 19 runs the Rockies have scored in the postseason have come with 2 out." --Tim McCarver right after Tulo's double.

How does he figure that the Rockies have only scored 19 runs in the post season? By my count it's 34.

-Mike

Maybe he meant that 16 came with two outs, 19 came with less? Of course, 19+16=35, not 34, but it seems plausible you could be off one and Tim could be off sixteen.

Thanks, Joe Buck. If I'm ever in the Boston area (not gonna happen) I'll be sure to swing but Eagle's Deli.

Facts can't stop McCarver, he needs to hear the sound of his voice.......like vampires need blood to survive.

When the runner gets to third base, the next stop is home. - Tim

Really? No shit!!!

I'm just jumping in real quick, but I think I heard Tim say:

"The third base coach knows that after third base, the runner's next stop is home."

Thanks, Tim.

I'm not even gonna try to post anything that comes out of Tim McCarver's mouth. It's either insanely obvious or completely nonsensical.

Thanks for joining the party, John Mellencamp. It wouldn't have been the same without you.

what was the deal with the desk tonight during pre game it was on a slant

Just wondering - am I the only one that despises that commercial that is on nonstop with Federer, Tiger, and that soccer player no one has ever heard of?

Actually, the Rockies are surprisingly NOT shifting against Ortiz. That was an old-fashioned gapper.

Ortiz hits a basically single?

Grammarman AND Mathman need a little visit.

Thierry Henry.

Oh, Joe. A Close Encounters reference - way to stay current.

Thierry Henry, and no, you're definitely not the only one. It's terrible.

And Joe slips in Conan's Jub-Jub
BRAVO!

he just got jub jub in
by the way
1 out 2 strikes in the 3rd

After coming back from the weather report he said "our own little jub jub"....

I could have went without hearing Joe Buck calling Chris Myers - Jub Jub

if it rains so hard that the game needs to be called. and it is after 5 1/2 inings. do they finish the game or is that it for the game?

Mike, did you know that Joe Buck's version of Phone Sex is by putting one phone by the tape recorder, and another phone of Buck listening to himself?

Am I the only one who doesn't get the harping on about Atkins/Heltons play earlier? Surely the sensible thing to do would have been for Atkins to just stand on third instead of risking a difficult throw against a fast runner?

World Series games cannot be shortened, the finish the games, evn if it has to be 5AM when they're done.

Infield Hit. The only way Lugo can possibly get on

Now watch him get caught stealing

If you can't run, it (bunting) isn't a good play. - Tim McC

Is it me or does McCarver announce as if everyone watching the game has never seen or heard of baseball and we're just a bunch of fucking retards??

Hey Tim, would you like to tell us that when a player reaches first base without an error by the opposing team, it's a single?

Pretty sure that was Audioslave and not RatM.

Timmy, in the next inning, tell me that a baseball is spherical.

I think Terry Francona would be much more likable if he started going by "Tito" again.

Do the Rockies realize you need to hit it OVER the Green Monster for a home run? There's no yellow line 5 feet over Manny's head.

Helton hasn't changed? He hits about 35 less HRs a year now than 5 or so years ago. And who "belongs" on base?

HOW GOOD IS DEREK JETER?

wow, helton's OBP was 55 points higher at home this year (BA +25 pts) but somehow, Coors Field has changed.

I loved the umpire talking to Beckett, "if they're slimy, it'b probably because I'm holding them in my crotch and my balls have more cheese than that burger Fox showed last inning."

Buck and McCarver not talking is a good thing AA.

I think Jeter just got jealous. Buck just showed his man-crush for Turlowitzki (sp).

Filling holes? There's no filling holes in baseball!

For those interested, the Rox have scored 35 runs this postseason including the one tonight, and 24 of those have come with two out. That's extraordinary. Naturally, I don't know what Tim was talking about though.

Manny Ramirez has a good batting eye and they've added seats to the top of the Green Monster... have they really run out of new things to say by the fourth inning?

"I don't see how the Red Sox can play David Ortiz defensively in Colorado".

You write him in at first base and he plays there. That's how you do it.

Thanks, Tim.

If only Joe Morgan were also on this broadcast team. It would be a trio fit for Coopertown.

Did McCarver just suggest that David Ortiz shouldn't play in Colorado? I'll lay down twenty bucks right now that says he drives in more runs than he costs defensively. That's just a stupid statement. Ortiz at 1B, Lowell at 3B, Youkilis in RF. It's that simple.

So Joe would have Manny at first to solve the problem...how does that help exactly?

Ask the Cardinals how many runs Ortiz cost the Red Sox in 2004 when he played first base.

Or, alternatively, just don't start Youkilis and have him be the first pinch hitter. Wow, this is easy.

Or just start Youk against lefties and Ortiz against righties.

Hold on a sec, the Yankees are on the phone about a position they have available.

I say but Big Papi at shortstop. :)

+1 Anon. He can't be much worse than JuLu.

Hurdle has a brain explosion there. You walk 0-2 Lowell?? righttttt

Swing and a miss. Good to have you back, J.D.

check out the live broadcasters on youcastr.com, pretty funny, and better than joe buck

I feel bad for this kid pitching for the Rockies. Is Hurdle trying to save his pen for the rest of the series? Or has he conceded game one and this kid is going 7 even if he throws 200 pitches?

mike - that sounded like velvet

"He was on the sidelines when Beckett beat the Giants."

Tim, did you mean "the dugout"?

Isn't putting Papi at SS about the biggest "Fuck You!" you can give the Rockies?

"We're so good, we'll beat you with a 300 lb SS with a limp and a first baseman's glove."

Was that an interesting point about why Beckett threw a curve to strike him out? McCarver just wasted his one good comment of the series in the 5th inning of game one

Does Joe think Matsui's name is really Kazwell?

Montague continues the string of awful strike zones in the post season.

He's all over the place

"I don't have my thesaurus with me. You told me to just pack the vibrator, ball gag, and extra KY."

these youcastr guys are terrible.

The margin may only be 5, but the way Beckett is throwing, that's 6 runs too many.

The margin may only be 5, but the way Beckett is throwing, that's 6 runs too many.

Is that a McCarver quote? It sounds like his sharp wit...

Do we still get that free taco if we own a lapdog or date girls with dragon tatoos?

"It'll be either Varitek or Torrealba trying to deny America of a free taco."

Because God knows they're sitting there, thinking: "NO, AMERICA GET'S NO TACOS!"

Courtesy of Joe...

I wanna see McCarver explain a balk

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that Torrealba has nothing better to do in game like this but sit there thinking: "AMERICA GETS NO TACOS!!!111"

"Does America still get the taco on a balk?"
"No."
"Anything at all for that, like tortillas, or anything?"
"No, no taco. Only a stolen base."

Because Tim needs that extra fat.

Torreabla and Varitek are Taco Blockers!

Hurdle not only started a lefty in Fenway, he then replaced with a lefty? In Fenway? Who wrote up his scouting report, Manny?

My God! It's 9-1 and we're only in the bottom of the 5TH! And it's already 10:40 in the east.

Uh...no matter what park you're in, you start your best pitcher if he's available on regular rest for game one.

And when your best pitcher gets pulled, you put in a lefty against a right handed heavy line up?

Only if it's your closer.

By the time they pulled Francis, they could've put in the reanimated corpse of Walter Johnson (right-handed) and it wouldn't have made a difference.

Torrealba to Speier: "Throw the goddamn ball over the plate so I can go sit down."

Mercy rule?

I think they dug up Walter Johnson. They should let Apodaca pitch, he wasn't half bad with the Mets. Wasn't half good either, but he could finish this game.

The Phillies go 14 years without making the freakin' playoffs, get swept, and then have Rosenthal forget about them when he's making some lame point about how the Rockies got here by beating the Little Sisters of the Poor JV team. Super. Thanks, Ken. Go interview the grounds crew or something.

Ouch. Maybe Rosenthal should take the mound for the Rockies and solve two problems at once.

How come they don't mention all those 2 out RBIs by the Rockies anymore?

Awesome. Boston fans were insufferable even before all this. What a deserving fanbase.

Someone should bring Torrealba a fishing stool or something to save his knees

Hey! Not all of us Boston fans are bad! Just look at Ben Affleck.

Good thing I didn't get those surround sound speakers. Joe Buck's singing would have blown them all out.

Please tell me someone else was deafened by that...

We used to be insufferable douche bags, so we must be growing on you.

Besides, we cn't take all the credit, we learned from the best(worst), Yankee fans.

I did like me some Gone Baby Gone, however.

Am I the only one really annoyed by the levitra commercials calling erectile dysfunction "ED"? C'mon, ad-men! Don't you know fear of something's real name increases fear of the thing itself? Erectile dysfunction! You advertise drugs to help prevent erectile dysfunction! Erectile dysfunction: say it loud and say it proud!

(the above rant is what happens when you do a shot for every time someone gets walked in)

Royce Clayton just pointed out that you could go to any Taco Bell in America and tell them you hadn't got your free Taco yet. What a tricky bastard.

To be honest, I thought what he was saying to Coco was pretty damn funny. Clayton must be thrilled to even be in baseball.

Jesus God, the Buckner play? Is there literally nothing else to discuss? Perhaps they should expound on Slaughter's Mad Dash while they're at it.

Holy crap!! Royce Clayton is still alive?? At least the miked-up piece with him talking about Taco Bell might be the best piece of audio ever on that feature -- usually it's some magnificent insight like "YEAH BABY, GO, GO ... YEEEAAHHHH!!"

mike - I was thinking it was time for a Bucky Dent sighting, with some vague reference to Pedroia because he's short or something.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0316079/

You tell me which movie Giamatti's in that Buck's referring too. Shoot 'Em Up and The Illusionist were very good.

Apparently Tito doesn't trust Gagne with at 12-run lead...

The answer you're looking for, ladies and gentlemen, is "Fred Claus." Fred... Claus.

The Red Sox offered the Rockies to let Gagne finish the game for them to save their pen.

The Rockies said no, they wanted to keep the score respectable.

Mike - you would? I'd rather see Snyder.

"I think I can play. I hope I can play. I know I can play."-McCarver's stages of a young player, which are right up there with Erikson's stages of development in our culture.

"I think I can shut up. I hope I can shut up. I know I can shut up."-Tim McCarver, in a wonderful hypothetical world.

If it's Fred Claus, it was in the wrong tense. Buck said Giamatti "was" in that movie. It hasn't come out yet.

/end grammar freak mode

OMG How come no one has said anything about harold reynolds on the post-game.I'll watch the whole fucken thing now. he's back people, he's back!

Not that I thought Harold Reynolds was good at beign a studio analyst, but I'll say two things for him:

1. He made fun of John Kruk.
2. The circumstances that led to him being fired were very sketchy.

LaTroy Hawkins's delivery is "probably disconcerting" to hitters because he "throws his glove in the air" according to McCarver.

Two things:

1. If you're Eric Hinske, who just struck out, any pitcher over 12 years old is disconcerting.

2. What was the last time a hitter walked up to the plate, looked up and muttered "shit. I can't believe I have to face LaTroy Hawkins." Well?

Not that anyone listens to the show, but Eric Byrnes was on Rome earlier trying to take credit for the Rockies winning the NLCS after his 'we outplayed them, they're lucky' comments after Game 2. What a douchenozzle. When I saw the postgame was Kevin Kennedy, Karros, da Nozzle & Reche Caldwell-eyes, It 'made me wanna puke'.
That, and the fact that the Red Sox won.

According to eTrueSports.com McCarver is not overbearing or didactic when he's asleep. I need to see proof.

i have no emotional interest in this game (mets fan), but mccarver cracks me up. never fire this guy, ever fox. ever.

"those are my guys!!" - speaking about van halen.

Did anyone else hear Timmy say "The Red Sox have found various ways to get on base: They've walked, they've hit." ?

Umm, what about when Mirabelli parachuted in and sneaked onto 2nd?

"By the time they pulled Francis, they could've put in the reanimated corpse of Walter Johnson (right-handed) and it wouldn't have made a difference."

You were right, it wouldn't have made a difference. The Red Sox tied the record for doubles in a WS game. The last team to do it, the 1925 Pirates. The opposing pitcher you might ask? Walter Johnson.