I loved that guy in MacGyverThe nostalgia.
Was there ever a better team of announcers for baseball games than these two?
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ReturnOfJudah
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Wrong sport dumbass
Erratic415
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Joe Morgan could hate on anybody and anything.
He showed up to the booth bitter.
And he hated advanced metrics with a passion.
He somehow compared advanced stats to the Enron scandal lol
Socratic exchange with Joe Morgan No. 1, on the subject of Moneyball, base running in the 2002 American League Division Series, and the use of statistics in baseball:
Me: It seems that you almost take [the book] personally.
Joe: I took it personally because they had a personal thing about me saying Durham should've stolen second base in the game that they lost — he stayed at first base, and they hit three fly balls, and the A's lose another fifth game.
Me: And that's the chief reason you don't even wanna read the book?
Joe: I don't read books like that. I didn't read Bill James' book, and you said he was complimenting me. Why would I wanna read a book about a computer, that gives computer numbers?
Me: It's not about a computer.
Joe: Well, I'm not reading the book, so I wouldn't know.
Me: I'm not —
Joe: Why would I wanna read the book? All I'm saying is, I see a game every day. I watch baseball every day. I have a better understanding about why things happen than the computer, because the computer only tells you what you put in it. I could make that computer say what I wanted it to say, if I put the right things in there. ... The computer is only as good as what you put in it. How do you think we got Enron?