The New York Post's Phil Mushnick has a scathing column railing against ESPN and Joe Morgan today. During Sunday night's telecast of the Phillies' 10,000th loss, Morgan — to everyone's surprise — shared a story about how important he was to the history of baseball. Let's go to the blockquotes:
The year, Morgan told us, was 1964, that calamitous season when the Phillies blew a 6 1/2-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!"
Great story. But unless Morgan was confusing himself with Reds rookie infielder Chico Ruiz, it never happened. As several readers were moved to write, the Phillies played the Reds, Braves and Cardinals during that losing streak; Houston wasn't in the mix. Furthermore, Morgan, though called up in 1964, did not have an RBI that season for Houston.
Did I ever mention I was in the military? This reminds me of the time I won the Medal of Honor posthumously after I bravely gave my life for my fellow soldiers on the dusty streets of Mogadishu in 1993.
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Or the time I won the Swordsman of the Year award at the 1995 Pornies for my inspired role as Mike Honcho.
Joe Morgan remembering what he did in 1964 happens about as often as me being able to remember last night's events….speaking of which, better go check the trunk…..
God damn mornings…..making things non-sensical since 1974.
matt, i thought you won the medal of honor at normandy. my twin brother and i were born in 1971 and my parents named us john and paul after pope john paul. wait, what ? there was no pope john paul until 1978. nevermind.
I was President of the US for a day back in 2001. I had to resign after being caught pleasing myself to pictures of Laura Bush.
Joe Morgan is going to have to wait and see a little more of this guy before he can determine if he can believe anything this Joe Morgan guy is saying.
Joe Morgan. Making Ron Santo seem intelligent since 1943.
And the winner of the Emmy for Shittiness in Sports broadcasting is….
Ben Franklin didn't discover electricity, Joe Morgan (and Bobby Boucher's mama) discovered electricity!
Chico Ruiz, as unimportant as he sounds, does not deserve to be the target of the fraudulent actions of Joe Morgan. Your sentence Joe: one year in federal pound me in the ass prison, and a public apology for the unexplicbly gay photograph of you above
I won a Pulitzer from the womb.
Jon, let's go back to the replay of that cat in the tarp. He's so wily. Look at him, being a cat and sleeping in the tarp. That's what the cat does because its a cat, and it can't be anything else.
Does anyone else have an issue with how Morgan pronounces accurate? I sure do.
@WAS – much better Morgan impersonation than me. Good times.
Swany, you're begging to get pumbled.
Joe Morgan: coming up next on ESPN, "The Bronx is Burning", the story about the year George Steinbrenner insisted on picking me up as a free-agent and i got into a fist fight with my manager, Billy Martin. there was one game in the playoffs where i hit 3 HRs in one game. as a matter of fact, 3HRs on 3 pitches! and if you count my last at-bat from the previous game, i hit 4 HRs in 4 straight pitches! i don't believe anyone has ever done that before and i don't think anybody will ever do it again.
Jon: i'll tell you what Joe, you were a heck of a ballplayer!
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joseph vaynor morgan; HOF c/o 1990
I hated him ever since he boycotted Ryno's HOF induction because he didn't think Ryno was HOF material- class act all the way.
Chuck NorrisJoe Morgan lost his virginity before his father did.I had no idea Joe Morgan and Tim Johnson were drinking buddies!
Next week Morgan will share how he rescued 8 orphans from a burning building next to Wrigely Field using nothing but a bag of kittens, 3 ice cubes and a catcher's mitt.
Joe Morgan won "Doin' It Well" last week.
Predator 2 was loosley baised on Joe Morgan's experiences in Vietnam, in which he defeated Hitler in hand to hand combat in a rice field. Then made passionate love to a 12 year old transvestite prostitute.
Shocker… pompous assclown pulls commentary out of his ass. Film at 11.
Joe Morgan fucked me in the ass. Who? Oh, sorry. I dont watch baseball. No, I was talking about Joe, down the street. He told me to come over and have a couple of beers. Next thing I know, there's a knife, and some rope, and some peanut butter. And blood, oh boy was there lots of blood. Needless to say, I wont be going over to Joe's house anymore. So who's this baseball guy?
There is no chin behind
Chuck Norris'Joe Morgan'sbeardmustache. There is only another fist.Sorry bout Santo, but cmon. Go Cubbies!
Maybe the guy's memory bank is just all f'd up from Alzheimers, and if that is the case, I feel bad for him.
"He did 3 tours in 'Nam…… I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Brasky!"
Joe Morgan is withleather?
As Mr. Morgan has told me time and time again, statistics can not be used as comparisions or to tell how good someone is.
Accordingly, just because the stats say he didn't have an RBI in 1964 doesn't mean Joe Morgan didn't knock in a run that year and then singlehandedly beat the Phillies 9,999 more times.
Dan Rather reports that George O'Leary was the catcher in that game, and he corroborates the story that Joe did, in fact, hit that RBI.
In all honesty though, who hasn't had a few too many and confused themselves with Chico Ruiz?
Why is it that I hate announcers with the first name Joe? Joe Morgan, Joe Buck, Joe Theismann. Each one a bigger asshole than the last. I don't know which one I hate more. Espn finally grew some balls and fired Theismann at least, so maybe I'll get lucky this year and Morgan and Buck will get fired. Then killed by a hobo on the street. Then peed on. That would rule.
they used to call him crazy joe.
now they call him batman
Joe Morgan still still remember the retirement speach he gave to the crowd:
Today..today..today…I Consder..er..er.. myself…myself…myself…the luckiest Man…Man…man…..alive…alive…alive….
I listen to bands that don't even exist yet.
Not to mention the fact that Morgan pretty much thought Gary Sheffield had a point in throwing Joe Torre under the bus. Damn that racist Joe Torre, who benched the (black) Tony Womack in favor of the (black) Robinson Cano! It's just another example of the Old Boy's Network!
Actually, Morgan is an idiot almost every time he opens his mouth. It's at the point now where if Joe mentions that he used to play second base for the Reds I actually have to Google it to make sure he's not full of shit.
I died on the cross and rose again three days later to save you all from your sins.
You fuckers owe me.
The Big Red Machine cured cancer, ate Jeffrey Dahmer, controls oil prices, sells Blu Blockers, is probably your biological father, and is also the greatest team of all time.
firejoemorgan.com is one of the best sites on the internets.
Ha! John Miller just basically recalled this on air, and they said that Joe got the year wrong that he got a hit in 1963 not 1964.