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O Happy Day!

Fman99 Nov 08 2010 04:03 PM

So far my favorite MLB development of the offseason: From twitter.com/espnbook, "ESPN Sources: Miller and Morgan will not be returning to Sunday Night Baseball. Morgan out @ ESPN; Miller out of TV; rest TBD."

themetfairy Nov 08 2010 04:19 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Fman99 wrote: So far my favorite MLB development of the offseason: From twitter.com/espnbook, "ESPN Sources: Miller and Morgan will not be returning to Sunday Night Baseball. Morgan out @ ESPN; Miller out of TV; rest TBD." I'll drink to that!

metirish Nov 08 2010 04:20 PM Re: O Happy Day!

It's possible of course that the alternate booth will be worse and more annoying than Miller and Morgan, Thom Brennanan?(sp). I didn't mind Miller at all and Morgan as just looney with the things he said.I guess what’s his name the pitcher will be part of a new team. There's a guy out of Boston who does some broadcasts and is decent, looks a bit like Cohen...Dave Schultz?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 08 2010 04:37 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Joe Morgan wrote: Joe Morgan being out, being fired at ESPN means that Joe Morgan will no longer, that he won't work at ESPN any longer. And that's a real shame, because he was one of the best in the game when I played with him on the '75 Reds.

Ceetar Nov 08 2010 05:53 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Guess there will be no comeback for the fire joe morgan folk?

Edgy DC Nov 08 2010 06:09 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Steve Lyons is a possiblity/threat. Think maybe they're prepping that seat for Bobby Valentine?

seawolf17 Nov 08 2010 06:10 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Fear: we have an awfully good announcing team here locally who would be probably be awfully tempted to get a shot at the national stage.

Ceetar Nov 08 2010 06:32 PM Re: O Happy Day!

seawolf17 wrote: Fear: we have an awfully good announcing team here locally who would be probably be awfully tempted to get a shot at the national stage. Ron and Kevin maybe, not Gary or Keith.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 08 2010 06:32 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Edgy DC wrote: Steve Lyons is a possiblity/threat. Think maybe they're prepping that seat for Bobby Valentine? Almost certainly on the latter, though. Someone like Berman's an unfortunate possibility as well.

seawolf17 Nov 08 2010 06:40 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Ceetar wrote: Fear: we have an awfully good announcing team here locally who would be probably be awfully tempted to get a shot at the national stage. Ron and Kevin maybe, not Gary or Keith. I don't know that I'd see Keith making the jump, but if anyone deserves a shot at the national spotlight, it's Gary. And he and Ron already make a nice package.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 08 2010 07:14 PM Re: O Happy Day!

A pity. Miller is just about the best ever. I hope he stays to do radio.

Fman99 Nov 08 2010 07:21 PM Re: O Happy Day!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: A pity. Miller is just about the best ever. I hope he stays to do radio. Miller's regular gig is the radio of all SF Giants games, a job I'm sure he'll continue to hold. He's more tolerable on the radio, maybe it's because I can't see the gawd-awful pastel shirts he wears. Now Morgan, he just plain sucks.

Valadius Nov 08 2010 10:47 PM Joe Morgan Fired

Well, more accurately, his contract wasn't renewed by ESPN, but still. Emperor Bokassa is no more. ESPN ended its 20-year association with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan as the voices of “Sunday Night Baseball” on Monday. They declined to renew Morgan’s contract and have asked Miller if he wants to stay on as the radio voice of the Sunday night games. Discussions are ongoing. “We’ve decided to make a change and introduce new voices and new perspective,” said Norby Williamson, an executive vice president of ESPN. He added: “Twenty one years is an eternity in this business. And today is about acknowledging the contributions they made to the franchise.” Each announcer is a Hall of Famer. Morgan entered as a player in 1990 and Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the hall earlier this year in recognition of broadcasting excellence. It is nearly certain that Miller will be replaced by Dan Shulman, who will be joined by Orel Hershiser, whom ESPN added to “Sunday Night” last season. Bobby Valentine might be the third voice if he does not get a managing job. Williamson declined to talk about the new team.

Centerfield Nov 09 2010 07:37 AM Re: Joe Morgan Fired

Joe Morgan is not fired. I've watched Joe Morgan broadcast for twenty years. The man is a Hall of Famer, an Emmy award winner, Joe Morgan is a top notch announcer. There's no way he could be fired. What? No, I haven't read the article. I don't need to read the article. I don't believe in all this website stuff. Baseball has been around a lot longer than the internet. I don't see how an internet article can have anything to do with the game of baseball.

Vic Sage Nov 09 2010 07:54 AM Re: Joe Morgan Fired

with the Mets hiring Alderson, Ricciardi and DePodesta, and Morgan getting un-rehired, it is as if baseball is engaged in an anti-Tea Party movement... brains are cool again!

metsmarathon Nov 09 2010 07:59 AM Re: Joe Morgan Fired

maybe the wilpons are zombies, and are getting all the tastiest brains lined up. braaaaaaaiiiinnsss.....

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 09 2010 08:57 AM Re: Joe Morgan Fired

PSST!

metirish Nov 09 2010 09:00 AM Re: O Happy Day!

I thought Miller was great during the Giants run , I was listening to him when he was on with Kuiper....it was subtle but Miller used to chide Morgan on some of his crazier statements. I have found Orel to be very dry in the booth and he talks out the side of his mouth which I guess is better than Morgan who regularly talked out of his ass.

Edgy DC Nov 09 2010 09:15 AM Re: O Happy Day!

Merged.

themetfairy Nov 09 2010 10:24 AM Re: Joe Morgan Fired

Centerfield wrote: Joe Morgan is not fired. I've watched Joe Morgan broadcast for twenty years. The man is a Hall of Famer, an Emmy award winner, Joe Morgan is a top notch announcer. There's no way he could be fired. What? No, I haven't read the article. I don't need to read the article. I don't believe in all this website stuff. Baseball has been around a lot longer than the internet. I don't see how an internet article can have anything to do with the game of baseball. Once the king, always the king

Frayed Knot Nov 09 2010 11:34 AM Re: O Happy Day!

Miller still has his SF Giants gig and it would be great if TBS went after him as their lead p-b-p guy for their playoff telecasts. Ernie Johnson wasn't terrible but was mistake-prone at times and clearly is NOT a baseball-first guy. Not to be greedy but I tend to think that a baseball-first guy on baseball playoff games is kind of a good thing. Morgan was what he was and, while his act didn't bother me as much as it seemed to for most of the rest of the baseball-watching population, I'm certainly not sorry to see him go.

Ceetar Nov 09 2010 11:44 AM Re: O Happy Day!

I have no faith in ESPN to hire someone better than those guys for Sunday Night baseball. (Kevin Millar anyone? or was that Fox? eww) I'm going to stick with my "Go to Sunday Night games on ESPN whenever possible" strategy.

Frayed Knot Nov 09 2010 01:43 PM Re: O Happy Day!

I kinda like Hershiser and if, as increasingly looks likely, Bobby isn't managing by April I could see him and Hersh paired up with some p-b-p pro for their Sunday Night package. Hopefully that guy is actually a p-b-p pro and not Chris Berman or some other ESPN in-house hypemeister.

HahnSolo Nov 09 2010 02:00 PM Re: O Happy Day!

I like the team of Dan Schulman and Orel Hershiser. I actually think Schulman is the best PBP guy ESPN has (on NBA, College hoops and baseball).

DocTee Nov 09 2010 02:42 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Please not Sutcliffe (or Mark Grace!)

HahnSolo Nov 09 2010 03:13 PM Re: O Happy Day!

No Berman, please.

SteveJRogers Nov 09 2010 03:26 PM Re: O Happy Day!

HahnSolo wrote: No Berman, please. What, you don't want to hear "And now stepping up to the plate is David "If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to be" Wright. Or Jose "Can you see" Reyes turned a nice double play there. Or "Nice catch behind the back stop by Josh "Hey mister Thole man count up the bananas!" Or "And that's another fine inning for Jon "All we are saying is give Niese a chance"

HahnSolo Nov 09 2010 06:15 PM Re: O Happy Day!

You were ok with the other three, stretching a bit on the Thole one.

The Second Spitter Nov 10 2010 06:47 AM Re: O Happy Day!

"Fire Joe Morgan" blog, nearly two years in hiatus, is victorious. I just had a radical new idea for a sports blog. I shall call it the "Fire Joe Buck" blog.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 10 2010 09:34 AM Re: O Happy Day!

HahnSolo wrote: You were ok with the other three, stretching a bit on the Thole one. Sad thing is, I'm pretty sure that Berman's actually made the "Day-O" joke himself. (I forget for whom.)

G-Fafif Nov 10 2010 09:42 AM Re: O Happy Day!

Shulman would be perfect, so I assume ESPN'll overlook him in favor of somebody less perfect.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 10 2010 10:30 AM Re: O Happy Day!

Fun treatment from Bronx Banter's Emma Span here: Joe Morgan as Hans Gruber. ... after that Joe Morgan wasn’t just another announcer I ignored or rolled my eyes at; he was the face of the enemy. Not in a personal sense; of course I have nothing against Joe Morgan, as a person, and wish him a long and happy life. But he had taken a stand against learning, or reading, or even having a conversation about new ideas, and he had done it in a particularly boneheaded way. He came to symbolize a way of thinking that drives me, and — judging by the comments here all season, every season – many of you right up the wall. But now that Morgan’s gotten the hook, who embodies what I want to argue against? Surely no one with as broad and loud a platform, so much money and influence, no one who will make it so much fun to play the righteous underdog. So yes, I think in a perverse way, I’m really going to miss Joe Morgan.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 12 2010 02:27 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Dan Shulman it is.

metirish Dec 01 2010 06:52 PM Re: O Happy Day!

Orel Hershiser and Bobby V will join Shulman in the booth espn confirm. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/stor ... BHeadlines

HahnSolo Dec 01 2010 07:26 PM Re: O Happy Day!

That's a good booth. Surprised that ESPN didn't muck it up.

OlerudOwned Dec 01 2010 09:40 PM Re: O Happy Day!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: HahnSolo wrote: You were ok with the other three, stretching a bit on the Thole one. Sad thing is, I'm pretty sure that Berman's actually made the "Day-O" joke himself. (I forget for whom.) Nomo.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 02 2010 09:15 AM Re: O Happy Day!

HahnSolo wrote: That's a good booth. Surprised that ESPN didn't muck it up. Really. Think we get any on-air '99 Mets war stories out of the color guys?