I’ve been thinking about Tim McCarver during the quarantine. There’s this thing he says. I’ve heard it a couple times, once in a conversation with the former Cardinals All-Star catcher, another time when the Hall of Fame broadcaster was doing a Cardinals game.
From his famous voice, with a drop of the delicate Memphis dialect, McCarver will declare: “Being a grandparent is the greatest racket there is.”
And so, this is all particularly poignant, because during the pandemic, McCarver can’t be around his grandkids.
“I know it’s been tough on him because he is always talking about his grandkids and how much he adores and treasures the time he gets to spend with them,” said Dan McLaughlin, the lead broadcaster of Cards games on Fox Sports Midwest, who sometimes has McCarver alongside as the analyst.