tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554256078924292106.post5732935492597882608..comments2009-07-05T09:41:13.322-07:00Gabriel Schechterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996629557540672071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554256078924292106.post-90659764793348477922009-07-05T09:41:13.322-07:002009-07-05T09:41:13.322-07:00I&#39;ve pretty much stuck to my vow. I watched the Wedn-Thurs wins after the fact, speed-viewing on TiVo. Friday we were in town for dinner and the fireworks display, checked the score on the radio a couple of times, and were spared watching any of it. Same thing yesterday. Linda worked, I taped it, and we did not watch a single pitch. So we were doubly spared -- no Mets incompetence, and no McCarver babbling. <br /><br />But Tim will be around for awhile, as I think Steve McNair fits the criteria spelled out here.Gabriel Schechterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996629557540672071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554256078924292106.post-43306273925720905342009-07-04T20:01:06.270-07:002009-07-04T20:01:06.270-07:00Independence Day night, and I&#39;m just wondering . . .<br /><br />Just wondering how long you stayed with today&#39;s game . . .<br /><br />Just wondering whether there has been a major league team in the past 47 years with so much trouble just . . . catching . . . the ball . . .<br /><br />Just wondering whether McCarver takes as much glee as he seems to in declaring (quite objectively) the team that once employed him to be a sad excuse for a big league team . . .<br /><br />Just wondering whether Tim holds to that superstition about deaths coming the 3s . . . like, say, M-initialed show-bizzers (Michael, Malden, . . . ?) whose sizable talent was manifest early in their careers but who later became grotesque self-parodies? Just wondering . . .cheeseblabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933247202378695543noreply@blogger.com