Random Observations in the Day in Sports (10/11/08) - Note: Mostly NLCS

what does it mean? Your beer is "drinkable?"

Peter La Fleur: Probably not.

"Tim McCarver is unbearable. He's got that whiny voice. He talks incessantly about irrelevant things. I feel for Jack Buck on CBS. He's a fine announcer, but McCarver drags him down."

And 4 pages later:

TV journalist interviewing Cosell: Tim McCarver said Harry Caray told it like it was before anyone ever heard of Howard Cosell.

(Cosell laughs)

Cosell: Timmy is now a big man in baseball. I interviewed Timmy throughout his career. I really felt that Timmy was a good soul of of great overachievement, of vaulting ambition, and in the context of the broadcasting industry as it presently is, he is achieving. But his remark is ridiculous. And I would like for him to tell me, when he, Tim McCarver, or anybody else fought for Muhammad Ali's constitutional rights, or Curt Flood in his suit against baseball.

Those are matters that affect a whole society, not a baseball game. Does this deprecate Mr. Caray? In no way. Mr. Caray has taken by storm the local population in Chicago. He owns them. And he can sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in a very enthusiastic way. I think he absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame.