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Presenting Dr. Joe Morgan's Players Of The Day

Caught up in all the hysteria this weekend was Joe Morgan being awarded an honorary doctorate from California State University-East Bay. Don't be too impressed, because I'm pretty sure one summer those came free with the purchase of an In-N-Out Burger combo of equal or lesser value. More »

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Media Approval Ratings: Joe Morgan

Joe Morgan is the perfect example of a guy who has never benefited by a more analytical fan. Before fans began developing their own systems and qualifications, Joe Morgan was the type of guy who could make statements with certainty, and, because it was a lazy Sunday night, we might have let them fly by us unchallenged. No longer. More »

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Beergate Continues To Reverberate

Thanks to Joe Morgan and several of our readers, there isn't a person on the planet who doesn't know by now that consuming alcohol during prohibition was very much legal. Repeat after us: It was only the mass production, distribution and sales of booze that was illegal. Morgan, of course, raised the issue during ESPN's broadcast of the Phillies-Giants game on Sunday, in which a banner was unfurled in left field that read: "Ruth did it with hot dogs and beer. Aaron did it with class. How did you do it?" The banner was aimed of course at Barry Bonds. Morgan, in trying to defend Bonds, remarked: "The funny thing about that is that, wasn't beer illegal in Babe Ruth's day?" Morgan's gaffe even got play on MSNBC Countdown on Monday, as Keith Olbermann reminded us that, no, beer was not illegal to drink then. (Best part: Olbermann did not mention Morgan by name). More »

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It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated

So, who remembers the Bill Simmons cartoons? Launched, what, a year ago now, the three one-minute tidbits of the life of The Sports Guy were almost universally derided, first by readers, then, ultimately, by Simmons himself. (He called them "a mistake on a lot of levels.") More »

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Gammons And Morgan: A Team For The Ages

We're not sure if this will make the folks at Fire Joe Morgan leap in bliss or slip into madness, but it appears everybody's soul-crushing Sunday Night Baseball analyst Joe Morgan is gonna have some company in the booth this year: Peter Gammons. More »

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Athlete Run-Ins: Joe Morgan's Tiny Finger

Today's first athlete run-in story is about everybody's favorite ESPN baseball analyst Joe Morgan. We're as shocked as you to hear he might be a bit of a jerk in public. More »

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We Have To Ask ...

Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ...
10 a.m. MLB With Joe Morgan: Hey, so, in your all your years of playing baseball, did you learn anything that you'd feel comfortable sharing with the casual fan?
1 p.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: For some reason, every time we see you on television, even though it's only a two-dimensional medium, you seem unusually short. Is that true, or do we need to adjust our set?
3 p.m. NCAA FB With Craig James: So, what did you learn about broadcasting from Eric Dickerson during your days at SMU? We bet a lot.

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We Hope You Like Joe Morgan

Bad news for those who are driven to murderous rage by the voice of ESPN analyst Joe Morgan: ESPN and Major League Baseball have extended their broacast agreement through 2013. Sunday Night Baseball with Morgan and Jon "Hey, Don't Look At Me, I Don't Know What The Hell He's Talking About Either" Miller continues, and a Monday Night Baseball franchise will include a "live, on-location batting practice special," which hopefully John Kruk will not be invited to. (Oh, just tell him Darren Daulton's somewhere other than the stadium; they'll be too busy making out to notice.) More »

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We Have To Ask ...

Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ...
10 a.m. MLB with Joe Morgan: When you said "any team that makes the playoffs can go all the way," you obviously didn't mean the A's, right?
Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: After writing License to Deal, how many showers did it take before you started to feel clean?
2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: We're no "expert," but let us just say this: Make sure that you don't have to use the restroom before lacing on the gloves.

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We Have To Ask ...

Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ...
10 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Come on, it was really Pete Rose who bet that batboy he couldn't drink the milk, wasn't it?
2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: OK, in retrospect it wasn't wise to hand over our car keys to Mike Tyson. But he was wearing a valet uniform ...
4 p.m. NFL with Jeremy Green: As the son of former Vikings head coach Dennis Green, let's get down to the subject of which you must be an expert: Recipes.