I Liked That Part Too

Joe Morgan liked Jose Reyes's home run against the Yankees, but he really enjoyed Reyes's home run trot.



Now I want to give Morgan the benefit of the doubt here and say he was talking about Reyes running as opposed to trotting or meandering, but his follow-up "he proceeded to go around the bases" makes it clear that he is, in fact an idiot.

But there were several Morgan moments during this game that were even dumber.
First there was a conversation, which lasted the whole game, about first basemen "doing their job" by catching balls in the dirt.

Then there was the whole discussion after Delgado's home run, most of which was valid, except for the part where Morgan talked about the "curvature" of the fence. It's actually not curved, more like slanted, but we got the point.

And when they got an awesome moment from their miked up umpire (we heard him telling Delgado that he thought it was foul because the guy to the left of the pole got the ball) it took them several innings to pick up on that.

But lastly and most annoying was Morgan demanding an appeal on Alou's sac fly, saying Wright left early. He insisted the Yankees were going to appeal, as soon as they brought in a new pitcher. But why wouldn't they appeal with Wang, if they were going to do it? On the off chance Morgan was right (he wasn't) the inning would have been over.

I seldom watch Sunday Night Baseball, and almost never in its entirety, but I can now understand why the blogosphere hates him so much.