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[shnsajax]

In all of baseball have a winning record on the road.

[bhogg]

Yet, some yahoo on XM radio was blasting the cubs a few days ago because their road record is "abysmal."

[OleMissCub]

Interesting because home field advantage isn't usually considered a big factor in the MLB.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Only 8 teams did last year.

[shnsajax]

Interesting because home field advantage isn't usually considered a big factor in the MLB.

 

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

[javy knows my name]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

[sneakypower]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

[PackLandVA]

10-13 on the road is not abysmal, especially when you consider two of the losses were two blown saves in the 9th (last weekend). Switch it around and they're 12-11.

 

If they can continue to dominate at home, and then stay within a few games of .500 on the road, the season ought to be a good one.

[Derwood]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

for Joe Morgan? are you kidding?

[weis21]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

for Joe Morgan? are you kidding?

he's the epitome of a sham announcer

[CubbieBum]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

for Joe Morgan? are you kidding?

he's the epitome of a sham announcer

 

goes without saying ... he's on ESPN

[OleMissCub]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

He makes John Kruk sound like Connie Mack.

[17 Seconds]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

Haha, are you serious?

 

"Hey, I really don't understand why everybody talks badly about Hitler. He seemed like a nice guy. I mean, what did he ever do to anybody?"

[Sammy Sofa]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

It's hardly just this board. Thinking Joe Morgan is a joke as a baseball analyst and as an announcer is practically the new national pastime.

[chuckywang]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

He's a horrible baseball analyst because he doesn't ever look at stats outside of the "big 3" in both hitting and pitching?

[Moises a loo]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

He's a horrible baseball analyst because he doesn't ever look at stats outside of the "big 3" in both hitting and pitching?

 

He's the Dusty Baker of announcers (now that Dusty isn't an announcer anymore): a hopeless dinosaur who refuses to acknowledge or accept that the way the game is played isn't going to stay exactly the way it was when he was a player.

[sneakypower]

it's beyond thinking he's a bad analyst. practically half of the sigs on here are quotes of his, there's a 26 page topic to bash him, and he's ceaselessly mentioned out of the blue such as in quotes earlier in this topic.

 

there's dozens of broadcasters who are just as bad or worse, but he receives all of the hatred. because of his Sandberg comments? the Moneyball epilogue? i don't really understand it.

[Electron Blue]

it's beyond thinking he's a bad analyst. practically half of the sigs on here are quotes of his, there's a 26 page topic to bash him, and he's ceaselessly mentioned out of the blue such as in quotes earlier in this topic.

 

there's dozens of broadcasters who are just as bad or worse, but he receives all of the hatred. because of his Sandberg comments? the Moneyball epilogue? i don't really understand it.

 

But all of the sigs, and certainly the 26 page thread, concern how bad of an announcer he has (as well as butcher of the english language, which doesn't help). He wasn't mentioned out of the blue here, either. The "quoted" post called the Cubs inconsistent -- which over the years, the have been on the road . . . but it's a running joke that, when Joe can't come up with anything else to say about a team/player, they are "inconsistent."

 

The Sandberg thing may have made it personal for some fans, but there's a very logical case against Joe Morgan.

[sneakypower]

But all of the sigs, and certainly the 26 page thread, concern how bad of an announcer he has (as well as butcher of the english language, which doesn't help). He wasn't mentioned out of the blue here, either. The "quoted" post called the Cubs inconsistent -- which over the years, the have been on the road . . . but it's a running joke that, when Joe can't come up with anything else to say about a team/player, they are "inconsistent."

 

The Sandberg thing may have made it personal for some fans, but there's a very logical case against Joe Morgan.

i'm mostly indifferent to him, and there's a LOT of announcers i'd less rather listen to.

[Tracer Bullet]

it's beyond thinking he's a bad analyst. practically half of the sigs on here are quotes of his, there's a 26 page topic to bash him, and he's ceaselessly mentioned out of the blue such as in quotes earlier in this topic.

 

there's dozens of broadcasters who are just as bad or worse, but he receives all of the hatred. because of his Sandberg comments? the Moneyball epilogue? i don't really understand it.

 

Guy has 2 emmy awards. As a baseball analyst. Yet he only watches the games he's covering (he all but admits this weekly in his espn chats, rightly ridiculed at fjm). And he's brutal, just brutal, in both substance and delivery. If he were the analyst for some team with a local broadcast, whatever (I'm thinking a Dave Otto type). But he's on the biggest sports channel's biggest baseball broadcasts every week for 6 months a year, has weekly chats at the most-visited sports website, and wins awards for his performance.

 

I don't hate him, personally, though my son is now old enough that I don't want him watching Sunday Night Baseball for fear that he might pick up on some of the things Joe says. I don't really care that he doesn't like Moneyball, but the fact that he ridicules it (when he doesn't even know what it's about) and still claims Billy Beane wrote it is stupid and pathetic.

[Tracer Bullet]

But all of the sigs, and certainly the 26 page thread, concern how bad of an announcer he has (as well as butcher of the english language, which doesn't help). He wasn't mentioned out of the blue here, either. The "quoted" post called the Cubs inconsistent -- which over the years, the have been on the road . . . but it's a running joke that, when Joe can't come up with anything else to say about a team/player, they are "inconsistent."

 

The Sandberg thing may have made it personal for some fans, but there's a very logical case against Joe Morgan.

i'm mostly indifferent to him, and there's a LOT of announcers i'd less rather listen to.

 

You can mostly avoid the other really bad guys. When I was in South Bend and got the Cubs on Fox, I hated Otto (Carter was also terrible). But the only baseball I get to watch anymore are Cubs games on WGN, some Tigers games, and the weekly broadcasts on espn or Fox. So I have to hear Morgan if I want to watch baseball Sunday night until he dies or retires b/c espn ain't firing him.

[XZero771679666304]

it's beyond thinking he's a bad analyst. practically half of the sigs on here are quotes of his, there's a 26 page topic to bash him, and he's ceaselessly mentioned out of the blue such as in quotes earlier in this topic.

 

there's dozens of broadcasters who are just as bad or worse, but he receives all of the hatred. because of his Sandberg comments? the Moneyball epilogue? i don't really understand it.

 

Guy has 2 emmy awards. As a baseball analyst. Yet he only watches the games he's covering (he all but admits this weekly in his espn chats, rightly ridiculed at fjm). And he's brutal, just brutal, in both substance and delivery. If he were the analyst for some team with a local broadcast, whatever (I'm thinking a Dave Otto type). But he's on the biggest sports channel's biggest baseball broadcasts every week for 6 months a year, has weekly chats at the most-visited sports website, and wins awards for his performance.

 

I don't hate him, personally, though my son is now old enough that I don't want him watching Sunday Night Baseball for fear that he might pick up on some of the things Joe says. I don't really care that he doesn't like Moneyball, but the fact that he ridicules it (when he doesn't even know what it's about) and still claims Billy Beane wrote it is stupid and pathetic.

 

Yeah, if he were tucked away in some local broadcast booth, that would be one thing. But the guy is the #1 analyst on the #1 broadcasts on the biggest sports network in the world.

 

And more often than not, the guy has almost no idea what he is talking about. His knowledge is anecdotal, poor and biased. His delivery is terrible, his articulation is terrible and I am less than convinced the guy has an IQ over 100.

 

Are there worse? Sure, lots. But in most cases you'll have to dig deep into your EI lineup to find them. The fact that a behemoth like ESPN tries to pawn him off as an oracle of baseball knowledge on their biggest stage is an insult to our intelligence.

 

The Sandberg thing is mildly irritating, but really immaterial compared to the other complaints.

[BigbadB]

The Red Sox have been amazing at home. The Cubs have always been inconsistent, so this has been very nice to see. Of course being able to win every possible way this year really helps.

I had to do it

I don't think I'll ever understand the complete and utter vitriol this board has for that guy

 

He's horrible in the booth. Granted, there are many others who are arguably just as bad in the booth, but the whole Ryne Sandberg thing jets Morgan past everyone for the absolute worst.

 

Did you miss the whole Ryne Sandberg thing? If so, then I could marginally understand how you can ask that question. But, if you are even remotely aware of Morgan not voting for Sandberg for the HOF, that might be the most foolish question this board has ever seen.

[Derwood]

his seeming bias against letting, oh, ANYONE else into the HoF irritates me too

 

no one here (or anywhere) will argue his awesomeness as a ball player...he's arguably the best 2B ever, if not top 3. but he is the living embodiment of the Peter Principle when it comes to sports analysis

[Tracer Bullet]

his seeming bias against letting, oh, ANYONE else into the HoF irritates me too

 

no one here (or anywhere) will argue his awesomeness as a ball player...he's arguably the best 2B ever, if not top 3. but he is the living embodiment of the Peter Principle when it comes to sports analysis

 

strike that...reverse it