Joe Morgan sucks

stuy119 · July 6, 2005

Not really a rant, but he's a loser who can't stand to see Sandberg succeed and be welcomed into the Hall.

Grow up, Joe.

JC · July 6, 2005

I saw this and was appauled by the classlessness of this man. Family committments my arse. What a complete and utter loser.

LuckyPup · July 6, 2005

What a Richard Cranium-

louisvillecub · July 6, 2005

Sandberg handled that with class.

TB_11 · July 6, 2005

That does it. He officially reaches a level of hatred for sports figures that I've only reserved for A-Rod, Kobe, and the Pistons during their Bad Boy days.

What an insecure little man he is.

dalgreen · July 6, 2005

I don't like Morgan, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If he calls Sandberg congratulating him than I'll believe his absence is legit. If he neither attends nor calls Sandberg to offer his congratulations than he's a bigger Richard Cranium than what I already think he is.

After all of these years I still don't know what his problem with Sandberg is.

IUBrian · July 6, 2005

Any excuse to rip on Morgan is a good excuse.

What a complete, utter tool-box.

erik316wttn · July 7, 2005

Joe Morgan, arguably Ryne Sandberg's most vocal critic in the media, has decided to snub Ryno at his HOF induction ceremony.

http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/rozner.asp?id=70276

It should be noted that this is Morgan's first missed induction ceremony since 1990.

burnt out cubbie fan · July 7, 2005

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=22656

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=22656

Outshined_One · July 7, 2005

If you have the patience and the time (it's 8 pages), this is a fun article on Joe Morgan that gives a nice insight into how he works:

Link

Brian · July 7, 2005

Wow when Joe said that Derrek Lee and Dusty BAker were the sole reason that the cubs were playing well at the time, I was a bit confused... It all makes sense now

Joe: I don't read books like that. I didn't read Bill James' book, and you said he was complimenting me. Why would I wanna read a book about a computer, that gives computer numbers?

Me: It's not about a computer.

Joe: Well, I'm not reading the book, so I wouldn't know.

Me: I'm not --

Joe: Why would I wanna read the book? All I'm saying is, I see a game every day. I watch baseball every day. I have a better understanding about why things happen than the computer, because the computer only tells you what you put in it. I could make that computer say what I wanted it to say, if I put the right things in there. ... The computer is only as good as what you put in it. How do you think we got Enron?

Wow, that's so Dusty.

Knightlife_in_Lubbock · July 7, 2005

I saw this and was appauled by the classlessness of this man. Family committments my arse. What a complete and utter loser.

So he is a complete and complete loser? Or did you mean udder? :lol:

AI · July 7, 2005

If you have the patience and the time (it's 8 pages), this is a fun article on Joe Morgan that gives a nice insight into how he works:

Link

Great read, OO. Thanks. It forced me to dictionary.com no less than 4 times.

dime · July 7, 2005

I don't like morgan at all.

that said, that article was so pretentious and smugly ostentatious that I don't blame morgan for getting angry. the writer sounds like a jerk, and he cleverly left all of morgan's out-of-context quotes in but didn't quote himself at all.

cheap journalism, but he's preaching to the blog choir so it won't really matter.

TB_11 · July 7, 2005

Good article - it does seem a bit biased against Morgan, but then again so am I.

In a few minutes Morgan will take the elevator up to the press box and prepare to teach baseball to America; America, if it's smart, will hit the mute button.

That goes in the sig.

BigbadB · July 7, 2005

After all of these years I still don't know what his problem with Sandberg is.

Sandberg played 2nd base. Joe Morgan believes that Joe Morgan was the only 2nd baseman that ever lived that deserves to be in the HOF.

imb · July 7, 2005

I dont get it either, maybe its just that he doesnt like players that played after him? I mean, even the article mentions how much he respects the players that played before him. I guess its more of that "good old boy" stuff.

hawkeyecub · July 7, 2005

I dont get it either, maybe its just that he doesnt like players that played after him? I mean, even the article mentions how much he respects the players that played before him. I guess its more of that "good old boy" stuff.

That doesn't explain his love for Jeter though.

Not that I need to point this out, but he loves to contradict himself. I think last year at the HR Derby, they had Reggie Jackson on while Tejada was batting. Morgan said something along the lines of "well if you look at the statistics, Tejada has actually put up better numbers than Jeter." Reggie of course interrupted him and said that no one has Jeter's intangiables and how he wouldn't take any player in the game over Jeter.

As much as he loves Jeter and knowing his stance on stats, I was very surprised to hear him say that about Tejada.

imb · July 7, 2005

I dont get it either, maybe its just that he doesnt like players that played after him? I mean, even the article mentions how much he respects the players that played before him. I guess its more of that "good old boy" stuff.

That doesn't explain his love for Jeter though.

Not that I need to point this out, but he loves to contradict himself. I think last year at the HR Derby, they had Reggie Jackson on while Tejada was batting. Morgan said something along the lines of "well if you look at the statistics, Tejada has actually put up better numbers than Jeter." Reggie of course interrupted him and said that no one has Jeter's intangiables and how he wouldn't take any player in the game over Jeter.

As much as he loves Jeter and knowing his stance on stats, I was very surprised to hear him say that about Tejada.

Well, there has never been any argument saying that Jeter is a better second baseman than Morgan.

Not that I really think Sandberg was better than Morgan, but you get my point.

daske17 · July 15, 2005

More Morgan wisdom from this morning's ESPN chat:

What has Dusty Baker done for the Cubs? He ran Sammy out of town and said he wanted to be able to play small ball and manufacture runs. So, he gets Jeromy Burnitz as a RF replacement

Joe Morgan: (10:17 AM ET ) I don't know if he ever wanted to play smallball, especially in Wrigley Field. That's news to me. The one thing i do agree with you on is that Dusty and Sammy did not get along and that was not a good move by the Cubs to get rid of Sammny in my opinion.

:shock: There are no words.

danonwaveland · July 16, 2005

Unbelievable.

dime · July 16, 2005

actually, the part you bolded sounds like what 75% of this board was saying in the offseason.

there is only one possible explanation:

...THE BOARD IS OVERRUN WITH JOE MORGAN CLONES POSING AS AMATEUR SABREMETRICIANS!

AAApittsburgh · July 16, 2005

I thought the first part was even dumber. Baker got Burnitz as Sosa's replacement? That's funny. I thought Hendry did that.

5.3k · July 16, 2005

Any excuse to rip on Morgan is a good excuse.

What a complete, utter tool-box.

nice avatar

Soul · July 16, 2005

I don't like Morgan, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If he calls Sandberg congratulating him than I'll believe his absence is legit. If he neither attends nor calls Sandberg to offer his congratulations than he's a bigger Richard Cranium than what I already think he is.

After all of these years I still don't know what his problem with Sandberg is.

:-s

You're kidding, right? Sandberg has about as much chance of getting a call from Morgan as Oprah has of winning the Miss America pageant.

Joe Morgan sucks

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