12-01-2009, 01:25 PM
Yeah, I just googled it. Apparently he isn't taking his job too seriously. Considering how many guys would kill for that job, it's a good example of why nepotism isn't good business:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Richard Sandomir of The New York Times documented a few examples in today's newspaper:
-In the 10th inning of Tuesday's Twins-Tigers play-in game, Caray made this call on Nick Punto's line out to left field, a play that ended with Alexi Casilla doubled up at home plate: "Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play."
-The next night, during the Twins-Yankees game, Caray misjudged Nick Swisher's fly out to Twins left fielder Delmon Young, at first calling it a hit, then correcting himself, but incorrectly implying that it was anything more than a routine play: "A base -- fly ball, I should say -- out to center field," he said. "That ball was hooking and nearly fell in front of Delmon Young."
More from Sandomir's critique:
[Caray] gave Alex Rodriguez's career statistics but left out 2009; he also erroneously said that after hitting a home run in his first at-bat in May upon returning from hip surgery rehabilitation, "he hasn't stopped hitting since."
He called a passed ball by Jorge Posada his eighth of the year but it was his ninth.
In praising Tigers catcher Gerald Laird on Tuesday, he said that his nearly 42 percent success rate in throwing out runners trying to steal was the best in the American League. But it wasn't.
Caray said that the Twins' Orlando Cabrera had played in past division series for the Yankees, the Angels, the Red Sox and the Rays, then came out of a commercial break, irked and chastened, to say that those were teams he played against. ....
At one point, Caray said that he "firmly believed" that the Yankees gave Manager Joe Girardi No. 27 to motivate the team to its 27th World Series title. But the truth was that Girardi asked for the number. It was all over the news in November 2007.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Richard Sandomir of The New York Times documented a few examples in today's newspaper:
-In the 10th inning of Tuesday's Twins-Tigers play-in game, Caray made this call on Nick Punto's line out to left field, a play that ended with Alexi Casilla doubled up at home plate: "Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play."
-The next night, during the Twins-Yankees game, Caray misjudged Nick Swisher's fly out to Twins left fielder Delmon Young, at first calling it a hit, then correcting himself, but incorrectly implying that it was anything more than a routine play: "A base -- fly ball, I should say -- out to center field," he said. "That ball was hooking and nearly fell in front of Delmon Young."
More from Sandomir's critique:
[Caray] gave Alex Rodriguez's career statistics but left out 2009; he also erroneously said that after hitting a home run in his first at-bat in May upon returning from hip surgery rehabilitation, "he hasn't stopped hitting since."
He called a passed ball by Jorge Posada his eighth of the year but it was his ninth.
In praising Tigers catcher Gerald Laird on Tuesday, he said that his nearly 42 percent success rate in throwing out runners trying to steal was the best in the American League. But it wasn't.
Caray said that the Twins' Orlando Cabrera had played in past division series for the Yankees, the Angels, the Red Sox and the Rays, then came out of a commercial break, irked and chastened, to say that those were teams he played against. ....
At one point, Caray said that he "firmly believed" that the Yankees gave Manager Joe Girardi No. 27 to motivate the team to its 27th World Series title. But the truth was that Girardi asked for the number. It was all over the news in November 2007.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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