Tim McCarver rattles off the moments one after the other from 15 years ago: Timo Perez getting thrown at home (“you can’t celebrate early”), Roger Clemens throwing the bat at Mike Piazza (“how was he not suspended?”), Luis Sojo’s “38 hopper” and Derek Jeter’s homer leading off Game 4.
McCarver, who split ways with FOX before last season and calls Cardinals games part-time, won’t be in the booth this weekend when the Yankees and Mets play their most important games since that World Series, but fully grasps the meaning.
“They were separate and apart from most of the games that we did,” said McCarver, who spent time on both sides of the city as an analyst.