Chip Carry needs a vocal copy editor

October 9th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

All and all, I haven’t found many qualms with TBS’ broadcast of these here baseball playoffs. (That is of course, until they play “Sex and the City” directly after the last game of the night. Ugh. Come on TBS, you are better than that. Try “Family Matters” next time, OK?)

But it turns out one member of the broadcast team last night had quite a few inaccuracies. These are things I did not notice, namely because well, I don’t actually know how many playoffs games Derek Jeter has played in or how many homers the Yankees hit this year. But Richard Sandomir of the NY Times does. And he decided to take Chip Caray to task for it this morning.

He stated that Derek Jeter was playing in his 49th postseason game — “No. 1 of all time.” Truth: it was his 49th division series game, out of 122 postseason games.

He likened the “dynamic duo” of Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera to the Rivera-John Wetteland bullpen pairing in “those great early years of Joe Torre,” when they were dominating the World Series. Truth: Rivera and Wetteland were Yankee teammates for two seasons, and Torre managed them only in 1996.

He said the “Yankees led the world” in home runs this season with 201. He liked saying it so much he said it again. Truth: The Brewers led the majors with 231, followed by the Phillies with 213 and the Reds at 204. The Yankees and Marlins were tied at 201.

He extolled Alex Rodriguez’s “offensive heroics in the first two months of the season” for keeping the Yankees in the race. Truth: A-Rod had a sensational April, but he slumped in May to a .235 batting average with 5 home runs and 11 runs batted in.

He introduced Indians reliever Joe Borowski in Game 3 as having played for the Brewers and the Reds. Truth: He never played for Milwaukee, and while he once signed with the Reds, he never made it out of spring training. Caray also noted his hometown, Bayonne, N.J., but pronounced it as if it were part of the Louisiana bayou.

In Chip’s defense, I’d be willing to venture on any given night, you could chronicle the statements of a random color or play-by-play man and find a few factual inaccuracies. Why, you could probably open this up to all facets of life. For instance, the next time I get a girl’s number, I’m going to make sure it’s her’s then and there. I’m really sick of having an old lady pick up and tell me I have the wrong number and to stop calling her at 2 A.M. I mean, geez, let’s let grandma sleep, OK ladies?

{HT: Sports Frog.}