1989 Topps Big Cartoon Deep Dive: Andy McGaffigan

 Must be a spring game, Topps never took photos at Montreal. 

Andy McGaffigan, known for his wacky humor, and his Harry Caray impression . . . 

. . . I guess? 

Searching the web, I couldn't find any evidence of McGaffigan doing anything funny other than teasing flight-fearing teammates on a turbulent trip. Nothing about a Caray impression anywhere. That didn't stop all of the AI's that the internet is infected with these days from trying to make sense of it though. 

The only mention I found in Google search results was from an eBay AI description of McGaffigan's 1990 Topps card (not 1989), which also mentions the Caray impression. The eBay AI's ridiculously grand prose is in full effect in describing this most common of common cards: 

That was the only instance in the Google search results, but that didn't stop the Google AI from trying to weigh in.

No "specific Holy Cow moment", I guess.

These were so ridiculously I decided to try a couple more AI "leaders". Bing Copilot gives us a Harry Caray impression that seems pretty ridiculous to me. “Holy cow! That McGaffigan fella’s got a slider that could make a grown man cry!” Maybe a Cubs fan can say for sure but I kind of doubt that's something Caray would have actually said. 

Finally, ChatGPT gives us this really detailed impression of McGaffigan, the baseball announcer.

After his playing career McGaffigan has advised nonprofits and has been a financial advisor for the past 25 years. He was never an announcer. That didn't stop ChatGPT for making up his style!

I also tried Perplexity; it had no answers, but to it's credit it didn't try to make up anything either.