The people who force you to listen to Tim McCarver every weekend are not people you want to trifle with. They control baseball, OK, control it to the level that they make Mike Fontenot hit home runs. Seriously. Just look above.

That video is taken by our own Sportz Assassin, and took place yesterday during the Cubs-Cardinals game. There is nothing supernatural going on here -- just the time-delay that all sports events are broadcast on now -- but you can see the confusion here. Which came first: the graphics, or the home run? These are the questions that define our lives.

During both home games, on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, two deputy marshals allegedly watched the Red Sox defeat the Colorado Rockies from the broadcast booth with McCarver and Buck, as well as Joseph Band, a lawyer who works for the US Marshals Service in Washington and occasionally does work for the Fox network, the officials said.

So, sure, Tim McCarver's known for saying some pretty incredible things on-air. Usually, they merely betray a strange misunderstanding of the game of baseball and/or the forgetful nature of a man no one would ever -- even charitably -- describe as "detail oriented." That's fine; in America, you don't have to be particularly insightful on baseball broadcasts, so long as your affable nature moves the dials. We all get it.

This is something else. With the above, McCarver has officially jumped from "Hmm ... that didn't sound right" to "This man is bats---, bonkers, loose-cannon-with-a-to-do-list insane." And all it took was a little (incorrect) civil war history lesson. Inexplicable.

(HT: Sporting Blog, Best Week Ever)

The World Series Game Two telecast on Fox once again provided a platform for in-broadcast brand exposure to Taco Bell, thanks to the restaurant's free tacos for a stolen base promotion. This time around, Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury successfully stole the first base of the Series, insuring free tacos and helping Taco Bell realize another $4.1 million of television exposure in the process. According to research conducted by Joyce Julius & Associates, which specializes in measuring the impact of sponsorships across all forms of media, Taco Bell amassed three minutes, 15 seconds (3:15) of clear, in-focus exposure time, while the restaurant chain was also mentioned 11 times.

Photos: 2007 World Series Game 2

He said that the conversation between the two players about the Taco Bell promotion was not rehearsed or set up by the network and McCarver's "shameless" reference might have been referring to the fact that the network chose to take that sound, not that they put the players up to it.