Now ESPN presents “Sunday Night Baseball” as a three-plus hours Alex Rodriguez nonsense and contradictions festival.ĭid it matter that ESPN had hired an infamous, suspended drug cheat whose half-a-billion dollars in career salary was predicated on illegal drug use and steady lies about it?ĭid it matter that team sport advocate Rodriguez spent a playoff game trying to pick up young, attractive women in Yankee Stadium?ĭid it matter to ESPN that in hiring Rodriguez as its face and voice of MLB was an insult to all decent-minded baseball fans?įor some reason, Rodriguez became ESPN’s ideal to weekly address the nation on all matters of baseball. That historic eighth-inning episode allowed Florida to win Game 6 in a late comeback then defeat the Cubs, four games to three, in the NLCS.ĮSPN, by then realizing that Morgan manufactured facts, promised he would make good on his factual errors, but he obdurately refused, according to ESPN authorities. Not only had he often played in Wrigley, he hit the infamous foul fly that was about to be caught by the Cubs’ Moises Alou until spectator Steve Bartman reached out to alter its path. “Castillo has played his entire career in the AL,” with the Twins, thus was unaccustomed to the vagaries of playing in Wrigley.īut Castillo had played 10 years in the NL, all with the Marlins, then two with the Twins. To a national audience, Morgan explained why: In a Mets-Cubs game, Mets infielder Luis Castillo struggled to catch a fly in the wind that invades Wrigley Field. He further recalled that Phils manager Gene Mauch was so livid he screamed that his club was just “beaten by a little leaguer!” Great story! Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan APīut Houston didn’t play Philly during that stretch, and Morgan, a late call-up, did not have an RBI in ’64. He said that when he was with Houston he contributed to the Phillies’ historic late-season 1964 collapse - 10 straight losses near the end of the season to finish in second place - when he ended a game with an RBI single. He once complimented Manny Ramirez for taking a pitch “he knew he couldn’t hit.” Two pitches later he claimed Ramirez “can handle any pitch.” Morgan’s contradictions came quickly and often. Thus viewers were forced to suffer his nonsensical analysis and historical “facts” that in fact were extraordinarily rotten guesswork. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned - air-conditioned - to anticipate a production that will challenge the good senses to a duel the good senses can’t win.Ĭonsider what ESPN has done to big-league baseball:įor 21 years ESPN’s lead analyst was former Houston and Cincinnati star second baseman Joe Morgan. Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. John Smoltz and other analysts making MLB broadcasts intolerable PGA Tour's Saudi sellout LIV Golf deal a slap in the face of 9/11 familiesĬandidate Chris Christie once tried to brush aside Rutgers athletics' dysfunction as governor Bob Huggins' DUI and resignation fiasco just latest con in sportsĬraig Carton one of the fortunate in media to get a second chance
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