Why? An easy answer. He’s hyping a show on FX.

I bet Tim McCarver is thrilled. I don’t see Sheen being McCarver’s kind of guy. Oh, the things we do for network TV.

From Michael Hiestand in USA Today:

Charlie Sheen will be alongside Tim McCarver and Joe Buck on Fox’s Mets-Yankees Saturday (7 p.m. ET) at least briefly. Or, in case of emergency, to take over: “I’m not going to do any color. But if they go down, I’m their man. I sit at home and do color.”

Sheen will plug his sitcom Anger Management, which debuts June 28 Fox’s FX cable channel and, he says, will be his last TV show. But not giving up on this on the idea of again playing pitcher Ricky Vaughan of the Major League movies.

Sheen there’s a “masterpiece” script for a fourth Major League and “we’ve been busting our (expletive) the past year trying to get it made.” The problem, he says, is that “foreign presale money” is key to financing films and a baseball movie isn’t sure-fire “when soccer is trying to take over the world.”