Comments on: Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and Joe Morgan

By: BCMike

BCMike — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:34:34 +0000

If you want a really fun drinking game, try to go through a Joe Morgan game under the following conditions:

1) Drink once for every time John Miller mentions how great Joe Morgan is (which I’m convinced he’s forced to do under contract).

2) Drink twice for every time John Miller mentions that Joe Morgan is in the Hall of Fame (also in contract)

3) Drink three times every time Joe Morgan says how great Joe Morgan is (this is usually done via comments like “I’m just like Puljols”, etc.).

4) Drink four times every time Joe Morgan says he’s in the Hall of Fame (note: this DOES include when Joe is talking about OTHER HOF’s and mentions them as “fellow hall of famers”).

You might want to call in sick to work.

By: peiseresque

peiseresque — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:02:54 +0000

Can we go back to calling Tim McCarver “old elephant anus?”

By: Hawver

Hawver — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:14:52 +0000

Joe Morgan is a fucking idiot. Ted Williams walked 147 times in 1941, the year he hit .406. Lets see, what’s one of the most important things you have to do to hit for a high average in baseball ….. oh right, it’s see the ball well. And we all know that seeing the ball well is totally at odds with getting walks. Nothing to do with each other.

It saddens me that the only time I get to watch the Sox on television is when this bozo is doing the commentary.

By: BedelBlitz

BedelBlitz — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:09:03 +0000

First you get the money,
Then you get the power,
Then you get the PC,
Then you use the PC’s calculator function.

By: Perich

Perich — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:58:12 +0000

Ooh, look at all the big shots, showing off how they can do long division in their heads. Mr. Big Shots, with their money and their math and stuff.

By: Duck

Duck — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:06:57 +0000

Not to nitpick, but I’m fairly certain Rickey Henderson had more than 3081 AB in 25 years. In fact, I was just talking to Rickey Henderson about this post, and he said, “Rickey Henderson definitely had more at-bats than that. Tell him Rickey had more at-bats. Rickey played in that many games, but Rickey came to the plate many more times than that.” Then I slapped him, because that speaking-in-the-3rd-person BS really annoys me.

What astounds me is that Morgan is routinely dismissive of drawing walks (or as his fellow ESPN gasbag John Kruk calls it, “clogging up the basepaths”) while being 5th all-time at amassing BB’s. Hell, at the time Morgan retired, he was in 3rd place!! It’s amazing that someone who played the game — at a hall-of-fame level no less — managed to not soak in any actual understanding of what was going on around him, or any understanding of what he was actually doing for that matter. Was he just running around out there like Forrest Gump at Alabama his whole career?

By: BedelBlitz

BedelBlitz — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:02:45 +0000

I thought there was something wrong with this post when I first read it. Then, I realized Perich wrote it. (Thank you, Thank you).

Seriously, no one thought it was weird that Rickey apparently drew over 2K walks while only having 3081 official at-bats? He was such a hitter that pitchers walked him 40% of the time!

So, I did what any sports fan would do: I checked the facts. In fact Rickey played in 3081 GAMES while taking 10961 official at-bats. I would expect such careful fact-checking from a native of Baltimore. I wouldn’t throw fact-checking stones in your glass house Mr. Perich!

Consider yourself Blitzed.

By: angryed

angryed — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:36:43 +0000

“Rickey Henderson is the greatest!”

By: Serpico

Serpico — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:59:40 +0000

I’d like to see an approval rating for Joe Morgan. Can there be a vote of no confidence?