Lost thoughts from a lost weekend

Tim McCarver had some interesting thoughts during Saturday’s Yankees/Red Sox tangle. Early in the game, he took exception with Fox corporate sponsor Burger King for claiming David Ortiz’s “hot zone” was middle-up. McCarver claimed that Ortiz’s true danger area for opposing pitchers was actually low. What I found most interesting about this is that the “hot zone” is a mathematical break-down of 9 areas in and around the strike-zone. So really what McCarver was disputing here was math, not The Home of the Whopper.

McCarver followed up this whopper (puns!) by stating late in the game that he believed the majority of Red Sox fans were staying around in what he seemed to think was a already decided baseball game just for the chance to see Alex Rodriguez POSSIBLY make the last out in the 9th to end the game (which didn’t even end up happening). I’m not sure where McCarver spends most of his time (although I’m willing to bet it’s not watching baseball), but in Boston, people actually tend to stay until the END of the game. It’s something that kind of goes along with being a baseball fan.