There's a reason the site firejoemorgan.com was launched: Morgan is someone who has never let the facts get in the way of a good story. He's from the camp that believes the new influx of data and statistics is awful for the game, dismissing it on more than one occasion.
And then there are the times he out-and-out lies: on a broadcast earlier this year, he told a story about his involvement in a no-hitter and a conversation he had with the pitcher in the ninth inning. Except that it took one trip to baseball-reference.com to find the box score of the game that revealed that Morgan *didn't even play in that game.* The next week, he revises the story, saying he was talking to the pitcher in the dugout (which violates the "unwritten rule" against talking to a pitcher throwing a no-hitter), then he proceeds to tell *another* whopper about how it involved a different pitcher, but the data shows that the only time that story could've been true would've required Morgan to convince the pitcher to give up *a perfect game* The two stories are at: http://deadspin.com/5299503 If Joe Morgan said the sky was blue, I'd look up anyway. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jason Carpio<[email protected]> wrote: > I just had one issue regarding this part Joe.. I suspect that Baseball Hall > of Famer Joe Morgan has knowledge of the game. He's just not a hall of famer > when it comes to articulating it on a broadcast. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
