McCarved in Stone

Tim McCarver is a boob.

Last night after the Indians third base coach disgraced himself by not waving Kenny "Rogers" Lofton home, he said about three times "In a situation like that, the coach needs to make a very fast decision. He needs to make the decision right away and go with that."

In other words, he was trying to explain why on earth the fool didn't send Lofton home when his team was down a run, with one out, on the road in the SEVENTH GAME OF THE ALCS!

At the time we had not seen the replay yet.

So then they show the replay and it's clear the idiot coach originally waved Lofton home, then changed his mind when the ball was still 15 feet from one of the worst-fielding left fielders in the league, Manny Ramirez.

So the coach DID make a quick decision, then changed that decision. McCarver's point was just mindless drivel that didn't have anything to do with the play he had just seen with his own eyes.

Two other points about last night's game:

1. Casey Blake seemed like he gave up after the Lofton play. He was the next batter and promptly hit into a double play. Then he made an error on a fairly routine grounder. Then he collided with Jonny (man, that spelling is annoying) Peraulta on a fly ball that should have been caught and turned into a double.

It reminds me what our Grandpa used to say about the Elder:

That boy has a lot of quit in him.

B. Joe Buck and McCarver harped on and on and on about the Lofton play, even though the Red Sox had taken a three run lead an inning later. Had Lofton scored, the score would have been 5-3, instead of 5-2. But that didn't stop the constant camera shots of Lofton and the third base coach as if it were the deciding play of the game. The deciding play was the homer that put the Sox up and kept them there.

Btw, Lofton got hosed in this game pretty bad. You have to feel somewhat sorry for him. First he gets thrown out by Manny trying to stretch a double when he was clearly safe, then the third base coach holds him at third when he could have scored with ease. He's 40 and probably done playing ball. Hard way to go out.

So, to recap, Tim McCarver is a boob.