Effectively Wild Episode 169: The Retirement of Tim McCarver/Is Clubhouse Chemistry Less Important Than it Used to Be?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk about Tim McCarver’s impending retirement and share their thoughts on broadcasting, then discuss whether changes in players’ routines have reduced the importance of clubhouse chemistry.

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0:00.0	In my view, as good as the Yankees were in the first half of this game,
0:05.3	that's how as bad they've been now.
0:08.7	Good morning and welcome to episode 169 of Effectively Wild,
0:12.9	the daily podcast from baseball perspective.
0:15.8	I am Ben Lindbergh joining me.
0:17.9	No crickets tonight is Sam Miller.
0:20.1	Hello, Sam.
0:21.7	How are you?
0:23.2	Okay, we each have a topic or we cooperatively came up with
0:29.0	two topics today that we weren't sure would stand on their own,
0:32.6	but we're going to talk about both of them together.
0:35.2	And that will constitute an episode of our podcast.
0:39.7	Which should we talk about first?
0:43.4	Hmm, I guess let's talk about McCarver.
0:45.4	Okay, so the news yesterday was that Tim McCarver is leaving Fox
0:53.2	or retiring I guess after the season.
0:56.8	It is his 55th season doing something in baseball.
1:01.0	He is stepping down to just have more time to do things that aren't calling baseball games.
1:10.0	And I kind of intentionally avoided the reaction to the news.
1:15.5	I don't know whether you saw a lot of reaction to the news.
1:19.5	I assume there was quite a bit of snark.
1:23.5	I didn't see much.
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