OMG you guys!!!!Could the 19-year "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcasting partnership of ESPN's Jon Miller and Joe Morgan be coming to an end?...
Well-embedded baseball moles contend the answer is "yes" to both questions. Both Morgan and Miller have two years left on their ESPN contracts, but that would not prevent a change.
OMG!
Sources said Morgan could be shifted to the network's midweek baseball telecast, where he would work with a new play-by-play partner.
OMFG!
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What's coming to light is how unpopular Morgan has become with many of his ESPN colleagues, who are less than thrilled with the way he prepares for a telecast. Some of them also don't respond well to what they call Morgan's haughty attitude, which he has displayed during some of his more outspoken performances in internal ESPN meetings.
Prone to on-air mistakes, Morgan also has come under some intense media scrutiny. And during those moments when he's made a mistake, the give and take between him and Miller can sound strained. But some of this stuff (if you don't take it all seriously) is kind of funny.
Couldn't agree more.
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Stay tuned.
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If we had a FJM Declaration of Purpose, it would be to point out that you can't just say things like this and get away with them:
(ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, Miller and Morgan, on the subject of the Tigers)
Miller: That's a tough way to go to Fenway: 0-6.
Morgan: Well, every day you lose, though, Jon, the percentage is in your favor. I know it sounds a little bizarre, but a team as good as this team, 0-5 you figure: the percentage is in their favor.
Theoretically, I suppose what he is saying is that the team is "due" to win a game. Sadly, the purpose of a baseball season is not to win one game, but rather to win enough games to make the playoffs. Thus, the
only possible thing you can say about the Tigers starting 0-6 is: that is a terrible start.
(The FJM Declaration of Purpose would be a small, unassuming Word document written in Helvetica. There would be a lot of cursing in it. And 26 years from now, when alien archæologists find nothing on our decimated planet but this document, they will assume it was the basis for our societal norms and government, and a new society will arise, and no one will ever write anything stupid about GlormBall, which is their national pastime.)
Unrelated postscript: Homeplate ump Jeff Kellogg just took a fastball to the face because A.J. Pierzynski seemed to get crossed up and just missed it. So he takes a fastball to the face and goes down like a sack of potatoes, and Jon Miller says, as they prepare a replay, "He's wearing a microphone, let's go back and have a look...) And I think, "Don't play the dude's audio!!!" And then they roll the replay, and it -- incredibly predictably -- goes like this:
(
smack)
Pierzynski: Oh -- my God.
Kellogg: (on the ground) Fuck.
Come on ESPN. What word did you think was going to come out of a dude's mouth in that situation?
Labels: espn, fjm declaration of purpose, glormball, joe morgan
