Colorado football coach Deion Sanders told his team about the time he boozy baseball broadcaster Tim McCarver with water in October 1992, calling it “evil”, but also saying that “God had my back”.
Sanders addressed the infamous incident during a recent team meeting in Boulder, as documented Reach Popular Mediaone of Sanders’ favorite YouTube channels. Sanders told his team it was an example of being able to return to a “dark place” from one’s past. He said, “God allows you to enter into it so that you can understand who He is and His power and how He can take you out of nothing and turn it into something. »
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Sanders, 58, was playing baseball for the Atlanta Braves when he doused McCarver with vats of water in the postgame locker room after the Braves won the National League Championship Series that year. He said it was revenge for comments McCarver previously made about Sanders, who described Sanders as selfish for letting the Braves also play in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons. The memory resurfaced for Sanders recently after he was apparently asked about it for some time. next Sanders movie on Netflix.
“My mother told me that this gentleman who had just broadcast a game spoke very badly about you,” Sanders told his players. “And, you know, when mom talks to us like that, you act. I’m a Florida boy. Like we act immediately. So after we won the playoffs, I threw two buckets of water, which was wrong. Two buckets of water on him and I doused him and doused and doused, and I doused them until he, you know, got upset about it. But I thought that he should have known his trade.”
Deion Sanders said ‘God has my back’ after Tim McCarver incident
He criticized McCarver for not doing his “homework” and not knowing that Sanders’ contract with the Braves was set. expire earlier this summer before striking a deal that allowed him to help the baseball team in its playoff campaign. Instead of being described by McCarver as selfish, he said he thought it should have been described as a “wonderful gesture” on his part to continue playing with the team.
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After watering McCarver, the Braves advanced to the World Series to face the Toronto Blue Jays. Sanders played well against the Blue Jays, especially against Blue Jays pitcher David Cone. He suggested that his success in this series was proof that God supported the McCarver incident. He hit .533 overall in that series with five stolen bases, but the Braves lost in six games.
“It hurt,” Sanders said of McCarver’s comments. “It hurt my mother. It hurt me. But there you go, God had my back. Why would I say God had my back? Because the opposing team was the Toronto Blue Jays who we played in the World Series. There was a pitcher on the team named David Cone. David Cone was a great pitcher. He should be in the Hall of Fame. But David Cone, my lifetime average against him was about .600.”
Deion Sanders wanted to win MVP so Tim McCarver could interview him
Sanders said he would have been named World Series MVP if the Braves had won.
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“But we lost,” Sanders said. “But I wanted to win so bad because that gentleman who was telling me no (McCarver) should have interviewed me to be the MVP. And that’s what I wanted, but it didn’t happen that way. But we went for it.”
McCarver died in 2023 at 81 years old. After Sanders doused him with water in 1992, he confronted Sanders. “You’re a real man, Deion,” McCarver told him. “I’ll say that.”
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This article was originally published on USA TODAY: Deion Sanders tells the team about the Tim McCarver incident during the 1992 MLB playoffs
