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I can't help but laugh everytime I see Kruk on TV because of that one ATHF episode.Member of The OS Baseball Rocket Scientists AssociationComment
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Perez was elected to the Hall in 2000.Originally posted by jake44npMember of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Fred McGriff gets the nod from me over Perez. Did you see that Mesh Trucker Baseball hat McGriff wore in his instructional video? That thing needed to be bronzed and sent straight to Cooperstown. What has Tony Perez done? I've never seen a Tony Perez instructional video, in fact if anything, he was the Monkey Wrench in the Big Red machine.
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Ricky Davis"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert EinsteinComment
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Re: Hi, I'm Joe Morgan...
The difference here is that Morgan believes he knows everything about baseball because he played the game. And he continuously downplays others because they never played 2B.
Other commentators that played the game aren't as full of themselves. Some do mention that they played the game and will bring up a story or two but I really haven't heard an announcer denounce another man's belief just because he never played the game.
What makes it worse is that Morgan doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time. I don't even mind as much that he ignores others and their comments. It's more the fact that he sounds like a moron when he does it.
My favorite example of this is his mention of shadows during a baseball game.
Miller was talking about how the creeping shadows over the mound were going to affect the hitters. Morgan trounces on it and states that it doesn't affect hitters at all. "Trust me, I know. I played the game. It doesn't bother the hitters."
A few pitches later the hitter strikes out and during the replay what does Morgan say?
"Look at the shadows across the mound. The hitter couldn't see the ball and that's why he struck out."
My brain almost exploded."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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I can deal with his bizarre comments. I can deal with him saying something completely different than what Miller is talking about.
But, I will not watch a Sunday night game when the Mets are playing. If I have to hear his explanation as to why Jose Reyes is the most electric player in baseball one more time, I'm going to go crazy. I swear, he must have a game long chubby during the Mets' games.Comment
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I heard him say that once in a game where Reyes not only did nothing, but he chose to repeat it as Reyes was in the dugout, drinking gatorade, and basically scratching his groin.
If you've read Moneyball, you realize how outdated this idiot is, how irrelevant or straight up incorrect MOST of his analysis can be, and how (per Joe) there will never be another Big Red Machine.
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What you guys are describing is the same cow manure every baseball commentator pulls out of their rear. There is no reason for anyone to single out Joe Morgan for it. That's why the mute button is my friend on baseball telecasts.-August 17, 1960Originally posted by VP Richard M. Nixon
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Hi, I'm Joe Morgan...
Tim McCarver, Bob Costas, Rick Sutcliffe, George Will, John Kruk, Joe Buck.....
Stephen A, Al Michaels, Tim Legler, Mark Schelreth, Keyshawn Johnson, Chris Collinsworth.....
THEY ALL DO IT. The baseball idiots are just more annoying because baseball has too much dead air. So they fill it w/the nonsense that creeps up in their heads. That's why I watch baseball w/the mute button. They are all in love w/their own "expertise" & the limited action allows them to climb onto their pulpit.-August 17, 1960Originally posted by VP Richard M. Nixon
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Re: Hi, I'm Joe Morgan...
Hey, now, I like Joe Buck and Bob Costas!"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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