Tim McCarver Quotes

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• Speed slows down the game.
• I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight,
• That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.
• Something to keep in mind - it's raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.
• Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.
• As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.
• A walk is as good as a home run.
• One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.
• When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.
• Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
• The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
• Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
• Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
• Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.
• Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.
• The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.
• Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.
• When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
• I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the…

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