Fired Joe Morgan

[alan1066]

Agreed that Joe cares about baseball, and he was one of the game's greatest 2nd Basemen, but that doesn't translate into being entitled to a high-profile announcer position. Being a Big Red Machine kid, it pains me to say that, but it's true. It may even be that he's driven people from baseball telecasts.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Agreed that Joe cares about baseball, and he was one of the game's greatest 2nd Basemen, but that doesn't translate into being entitled to a high-profile announcer position. Being a Big Red Machine kid, it pains me to say that, but it's true. It may even be that he's driven people from baseball telecasts.

DING!

Love newbies that get it. I'll have a Sam Summer Ale.

 

[Double Down]

Speaking of folklore, like a fallen warrior getting off one final swing with his poison-tipped sword, Joe Morgan seems to have somehow made sure that Derek Jeter won a Gold Glove today. At least that's how I choose to view it and remember it, accuracy be damned.

 

[Azrael]

And having so done, his work here finished, Joe Morgan is at last taken up. Chained to the mountainside for Eternity, whence his liver will be pecked at each day by Ford Frick, he has brought the knowledge of fire - and the two-out double steal - to humankind.

 

[Moderator1]

Wasn't there considerable talk for a significant period of time that Joe Morgan was a great manager in waiting? Or am I misremembering? Never did actually manage, did he?

 

[HanSenSE]

Wasn't there considerable talk for a significant period of time that Joe Morgan was a great manager in waiting? Or am I misremembering? Never did actually manage, did he?

No, you remember correctly. I recall him saying he was more interested in running his businesses at the time ... a few Wendy's in and around his hometown of Hayward, Calif. I don't even remember him being a coach, come to think of it.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

If statistical mastery is the yardstick here, or the historical verifiability of old-timey first-person "when we was on the road with the Cards in '47" stories, we'd have never had Kiner or Rizzuto or Garagiola or even Uecker.

Be careful what you wish for.

Or they would have been held to standards for telling the truth? Might have spared us two tons of bullshirt that Yogi Berra never said.

 

[HeinekenMan]

Let's swap out one Red for another. Bring Pete Rose into the booth. Now that would be entertaining. A total train wreck and potentially incomprehensible. But entertaining.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Let's swap out one Red for another. Bring Pete Rose into the booth. Now that would be entertaining. A total train wreck and potentially incomprehensible. But entertaining.

Rather not further-enable that clownshow, thanks.

 

[bigbadeagle]

I won't pile on to the "Little Joe won't be missed chorus." Because he won't be.
Frankly, I won't miss Miller, either.

 

[Dick Whitman]

"(T)he 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."

-- Michael Lewis

http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-07-06/news/say-it-ain-t-so-joe/

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I won't pile on to the "Little Joe won't be missed chorus." Because he won't be.
Frankly, I won't miss Miller, either.

Morgan constantly placed Miller between a rock and a hard place, i. e. either appearing to either apparently approve of a particular statement or series of statements uttered by Morgan (many of which wouldn't make a lick
of sense to a ninth-grader) or show Morgan up, which would create
a sad measure of discord in the booth.

Morgan owes Miller reparations.