Fire Joe Morgan blog site

[Vince]

http://firejoemorgan.blogspot.com/

Great blog. I visit it everyday and love how this guy makes the arrogant Joe Morgan look so bad.

[ChrisHero]

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Let's get Buck/McCarver and Scooter off of Fox first. Then Joe Morgan can come next.

[Stu]

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As Michael Lewis said:

"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Joe Morgan can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. Short of that kind of thing, there is no level of stupidity that he could express on ESPN that would get him canned, because he's Joe Morgan. What are you going to do about it?"

Here's a good article about Joe and his thoughts on Moneyball.

http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-07-06/news/feature_1.html

[RedRooster]

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http://firejoemorgan.blogspot.com/

Great blog. I visit it everyday and love how this guy makes the arrogant Joe Morgan look so bad.

Hahaha, that site is hilarious! Thanks for the link.
I like this part, it's good stuff:

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE/THINGS RESPECT THE GAME AND PLAY SAID GAME THE RIGHT WAY:

Pete Rose (and Presumably, All People Who Have Gambled on the Game)
Derek Jeter
David Eckstein/Scott Podsednik/Any Small or Fast Player
Any Member of Any Championship Team Ever
Anyone Who Knows How to Win
Anyone Who Played Before 1975
Bunts
Not Trying to Do Too Much With It
Steals
Productive Outs
Fast People
Good-Fielding SS
Guys Who Get Their Uniforms Dirty
Pitches Who Throw Hard and/or Stare Menacingly at Batters When on the Mound
Bench Coaches ("Good Baseball Men")
Intangibles
Awareness of the Game
GMs Who Are Former Players
Guys With Junk on Their Helmets Specifically Along With Perhaps Other Parts of Their Uniforms (Trot Nixon Corollary)
Captains (See Jeter, Derek and Varitek, Jason)
Hit and Runs
The National League
Being Aggressive
Ron Gardenhire
Jack McKeon
Desire
Guts
Guile
"Catalysts"
Table-Setters
Chemistry
Gold Gloves
Veterans

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE/THINGS DO NOT RESPECT THE GAME, PLUS THEY PLAY SAID GAME IN A WEIRD, INCORRECT WAY:

Steroid Users (Evil)
Adam Dunn
Mark Bellhorn
The Oakland Athletics
Computers
Walks
Home Runs
Trying to Do Too Much With It
Pitch Counts
Large Men Who Clog Up the Basepaths
On-Base Percentage
Anyone Who Uses Numbers to Make Baseball Arguments
Young GMs
Guys Who Hit .304 Last Year But Who Are Only Hitting .278 This Year (!)
Guys Who Don't Intentionally Always Hit the Ball to the Right Side of the Infield With a Runner on Second and No Outs No Matter What the Game Situation Is
Slow People
Designated Hitters
No-Field 1B
Striking Out Too Much
Chokers
Head Cases
VORP, WARP, Win Shares, UZR

[Vince]

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As Michael Lewis said:


Here's a good article about Joe and his thoughts on Moneyball.

http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-...feature_1.html

That's perfect sig material...

[DuffysCliff]

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I wonder what would happen if Joe Morgan knew that the career leader in wins is also the career leader in losses, would his head explode?

[bravosfan]

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That site is hilarious, and so true.

He said something tonight that I'm still trying to decipher... the basic gist I got was that players hit 4th in the order to get sacrifice flies and RBI groundouts. Or something...

[Autoproxy]

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That site is hilarious, and so true.

He said something tonight that I'm still trying to decipher... the basic gist I got was that players hit 4th in the order to get sacrifice flies and RBI groundouts. Or something...

Haha...he was saying meaningless stuff. He was talking about David Wright being moved up to 5th in the order, and how that is a "run producing" slot in the lineup...and as such, it is his job to get runs in any way he can. So by hitting sac flies and rbi groundouts, he was doing his job. But it's all so stupid, of course, because every damn player is supposed to get runs in.

[SlimKibbles]

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Why is Adam Dunn on that second list?

[CWood2]

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That site is hilarious, and so true.

He said something tonight that I'm still trying to decipher... the basic gist I got was that players hit 4th in the order to get sacrifice flies and RBI groundouts. Or something...

He's good for a handful of "you didn't really play baseball, did you" quotes every Sunday night. How some HOF'ers allow him to sit on his throne as their unofficial rep is beyond me.

See my comments in the worst broadcasters thread for more ammo.

[Stu]

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Why is Adam Dunn on that second list?

Because he strikes out a lot.

[LetsGoPitt]

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I don't know if anyone caught Baseball Tonight before yesterday's game, but Karl Ravich did a pretty good job in taking Morgan to task. He didn't follow through, unfortunately, but he had him set up to look like a real moron.

[SPTO]

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LOL!

I think I will definitely have to read this blog as it's some of the funniest stuff i've read in a while.

Thanks for the link!

[rsox]

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Jon Miller is such a great broadcaster yet i can't stand to watch sunday night (or any other night Morgan calls a game) Baseball because Morgan gets on my nerves. I wish ESPN would can him and put Miller with someone good like maybe Steve Stone.