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Obviously a lot of baseball fans have despised both announcers but who do you think is worse? I personally like Joe Morgan as a broadcaster. On the other hand, while I like Tim McCarver, but I feel he was way too critical, negative, and I also feel that he was pretty senile so my vote is McCarver. Plus I would not use the word "suck" do describe his broadcasting ability. I would probably just say that Tim McCarver is awful, horrible, terrible, etc as an example.
Last edited by Jonathan Ashbeck; 01-27-2016 at 02:00 PM..
Reason: Changed some wording and added some more words and omitted one of the "so my vote is McCarver"
McCarver could be overbearing and it seemed like every broadcast in the past few years including something about how Bob Gibson would handle a situation. But, a casual viewer could learn a lot. McCarver understood the nuances of the game. Admittedly he was much better as a Mets broadcaster than he was on the national stage.
Morgan, OTOH, was simply Captain Obvious. Completely useless.
Why am I the only one who voted for McCarver? I like Joe Morgan and I don't see anything wrong with him. The problem I have with Tim McCarver is that I feel that he is way too negative and senile.
Morgan was stuck in his time warp and refused to ever give credit to new winning concepts outside the 1970s running game. He'd back up his assertions with comments which were completely nonsensical. There was an amazing article dissecting his incompetence in Oakland's East Bay Express newspaper about 10 years ago but sadly it's no longer available online.
Again I am not sure why seven people voted for Joe Morgan while only three people, including myself voted for McCarver. I like Joe Morgan. While I do like McCarver but he's way too negative and too senile, that's my problem I have with him as Morgan I have no problem with on the other hand. Not sure why many people don't like him and I don't know what's wrong with Morgan.
Morgan was stuck in his time warp and refused to ever give credit to new winning concepts outside the 1970s running game. He'd back up his assertions with comments which were completely nonsensical. There was an amazing article dissecting his incompetence in Oakland's East Bay Express newspaper about 10 years ago but sadly it's no longer available online.
Morgan was an extremely smart player on the field and I had been thinking that would translate well to the broadcasting booth after he retired. My first clue that I might be wrong was when I read Morgan's autobiography. It was full of cliches substituting for insight, very disappointing.
He was okay the first few years in the booth, but then he got lazy and spent the rest of his broadcasting career just phoning it in. It was evident that he found the new metric analysis annoying, and because he had no expertise in it, he was constantly putting it down and defending discredited positions. he became one of those "smallball uber alles" types, championing bunts and hit and run decisions despite the mounting evidence that such things were inconsequential in the long run. I recall several times when he got pissed at Jon Miller for contradicting some cliche assumption which Morgan was advancing as baseball gospel.
Moragn was also a very successful businessman, owning a string of fast food franchises in the Bay Area, so he didn't really need his announcer salary. Because he wasn't that concerned about getting fired, he figured that he didn't have to do that good a job.
Plus McCarver doesn't like the Cardinals despite playing for them.
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