'Tim McCarthy commentates on basketball. Why stop there? Tim McCarthy should commentate on everything'
'Football, yes. GAA, yes. But look beyond sport. I'd pay more attention if Tim McCarthy was doing the Six One News'
Tim McCarthy commentates on basketball. But why stop there? Tim McCarthy should commentate on everything.
Basketball isn't my game. This can be traced back to childhood. I moved to a new school, and days later saw a basketball for the first time...
And moments after that, I scored what may have been the sport's first and only 'own basket'. I stood in the centre of the court and the ball was passed to me.
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I caught it and looked ahead - a scattering of kids was charging towards me. I looked over my shoulder - the path to the other basket was clear.
So I turned and ran to the clear basket - without bouncing the ball even a single time. I stopped a few feet short of the hoop and threw the ball. I heard the shrieks of children, aghast
My first ever attempt at scoring a basket was - against all the odds - successful. It just happened to be in the wrong hoop. Had Tim been around, he might have shouted: "Uptown!".
So not my game. But Tim McCarthy's my commentator. You'll know him from his shouts of 'Downtown!' but there's so much more to him than that.
There's nobody commenting now that is as into a sport as Tim is, and there hasn't been since Micheal O Muircheartaigh retired, and went to the great microphone in the sky.
It's infectious. And - limited to basketball, as much as he loves it and makes it lovable - it's wasted.
The solution to all this nation's woes is to have Tim McCarthy commentate on everything. Everything.
Football, yes. GAA, yes. But look beyond sport. I'd pay more attention if Tim McCarthy was doing the Six One News. A Tim McCarthy weather report would be a ray of sunshine.
Tim could do Luas stop announcements and the voice at the entrance to hospitals asking people to sanitise their hands.
I want it to be Tim who says "please do not put your feet on the seats" when I'm on the Dart. We need a feel good factor about not putting feet on seats.
The Eurovision is missing Tim McCarthy. Sorry Marty - but we need Tim's take on the damn thing - there's no reasonable doubt about that.
Daithi O Se is a great guy and very good at what he does. Sorry Daithi - we need Tim to take over the Rose of Tralee. Why isn't Tim on Darts (the sport) already?
Revive Oireachtas Report and get Tim to present it. Bring back Garda Patrol and get Tim in on the action. Tim talking about stolen bicycles would be mega. Bring back the talking clock you could phone years ago and get Tim on it.
In the event of nuclear war - always a possibility - I'd be cool with Tim doing the public warning announcements.
Restricting Tim to basketball once every four years is beyond the realms of foolishness and knee deep in outright negligence.
There is no valid reason why Tim shouldn't say 'bong' multiple times for the Angelus at 6pm on RTE... More Tim. Amen to that.
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