Friday, July 20, 2007

Fire Joe Morgan from the actual press.....

Joe likes to tell his stories.

The Phillies were about to become the first Major League Baseball team to 10,000 losses. And Joe Morgan, ESPN's No. 1 baseball analyst, a fellow whose wisdom is often laced with convoluted, confounding and contradictory nonsense, was moved to tell a national audience about the significant role he played in Phillies history.
The year, Morgan told us, was 1964, that calamitous season when the Phillies blew a 61/2-game lead with 12 games left by losing 10 straight. Morgan said he made his major-league debut late in '64, against the Phillies. And it was in that game that his RBI single beat the Phillies, extending their infamous losing streak to eight or nine.
Morgan added that Phillies manager Gene Mauch was so upset he threw over the buffet table in the clubhouse, hollering that his club had just been beaten by "a Little Leaguer!"

Joe never played the Phillies in 1964. A Little Leaguer? One that hits a bloop single to defeat Goliath? I think its pretty clear that Joe wishes he was David Eckstein. Little Leaguers who win at the MLB level instantly have a scraptitude rating of 80. Scouts dream of finding prospects with scraptitude 80, like a young Joe. Or like Pinocchio.

1 comment:

Gweedoh said...

I heart the hell out of baseball-reference.com for probably being the source from which Phil Mushnick et al. were able to prove that Joe is an idiot.

BTW, why is Joe inventing glory moments for himself? As if he didn't already have enough honors- both deserved (MVPs) and undeserved(2(!) Emmys) to get sentimental about.

Also, scrapitude 80 as a Little Leaguer is unheard of. Be real, Chad.