Steve Phillips is now a part of the "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcast team, alongside Joe Morgan and Jon Miller. This, without a doubt, is the best news of the young season. I've watched half an inning of the Cubs/Phillies game and already we have a gem from our good friend, Joey M. (I like to rhyme). For a few minutes, Joe went on about how the Cubs manager, Lou Piniella, splits up his righties and lefties in the batting order and how it isn't smart to give your best hitter, Aramis Ramirez (presumably), fewer at-bats because it really doesn't make much of a difference to have consecutive righties or lefties. Okay, sounds reasonable enough, right? Ah, but wait, this is Mr. Morgan we're talking about, we should know by now that he just can't leave it at that. So he proceeds to say this:
**Paraphrase**
"You see, in Philadelphia their three best hitters--Rollins, Utley, and Howard-- are left-handed, but they bat them all in a row. That's the difference between Manuel (Phillies Manager) and Lou."
He goes on to cite this quite a few times as he chastises Piniella for batting Ramirez fifth in the lineup as opposed to having his best hitters in their deserving spots regardless of whether they bat right or left. There's only one thing wrong with this comparison that Joe keeps pointing to: THE PHILLIES HAVE NOT ONCE HAD A ROLLINS/UTLEY/HOWARD BATTING ORDER THIS SEASON. In fact, the only time Manuel did that during the entire '08 season was that strange two week stretch where he had Utley batting second, followed by Rollins and Howard (not a horrible idea, btw, just strange in the sense that he never did it again).
I don't understand how Joe Morgan can consistently be allowed to consistently say stupid shit on a consistent basis despite his consistent idiotic remarks week in and week out.
Yes, it's now been nearly five months since FJM disbanded, and I am sad.
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I have a friend who thinks there's an increasing trend of announcers not being corrected or told to correct themselves on the air. Instead, they seem to be encouraged to just act like what they say is correct, I guess assuming the general audience doesn't know any better.
Am I alone in wondering how Joe failed to mention that Soriano likes swinging at pitches a foot outside in relation to why he strikes out more often than Aaron? That absolutely had to be mentioned.
As far as the announcers being corrected on air, I like to think that they tried to correct Joe many times in the beginning of his color commentating days, but he would simply respond with a "Fuck you! Do you know who I am???" every time, so they quickly gave up.
Goose, you make too much sense for Joe.
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