Menu
Media

Tim McCarver Inks FS Midwest Deal As Color Analyst For 30 Cardinals Games

Former Fox MLB color commentator Tim McCarver "has been hired to serve as the analyst" for 30 Cardinals games this season on FS Midwest, according to Dan Caesar of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. The "long-anticipated deal has been confirmed" by the RSN, where he will work with play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin. The addition of McCarver "comes at the time Cards radio broadcaster Mike Shannon is cutting his schedule, missing approximately 50 road contests as he reduces his workload at age 74." McCarver, 72, is "set to do 18 road and 12 home games this season." His "first assignment" is the Cardinals' May 2 away game against the Cubs. McCarver said of his replacements in the Fox booth, Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci, "I think they'll do just fine. No. 1, they're working with the best in the business in Joe [Buck]. They'll be better broadcasters (because of him), I guarantee it. They'll be better with Joe than anybody else" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 3/7).

THE REPLACEMENTS: In Boston, Chad Finn writes Fox "made a less-than-inspired choice to replace McCarver, and it’s disappointing given the prominence of the position." Verducci is "fine, a superb writer," and will be a "suitable information guy." But Reynolds "willfully disregards the statistical advances in baseball to traffic in hagiography, myth-making, and archaic thinking." He will "not criticize management, and he’ll over-praise certain players so much that you may start recalling McCarver's particular adorations as restrained and subtle." Fox, which "prides itself on being the fun and innovative foil to ESPN, missed a golden chance to be the latter here" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/7).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2014/03/07/Media/McCarver.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2014/03/07/Media/McCarver.aspx

CLOSE