O Happy Day!

[Fman99]

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."

[Guest themetfairy]

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]

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?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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]

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

[Guest Edgy DC]

Steve Lyons is a possiblity/threat.

Think maybe they're prepping that seat for Bobby Valentine?

[seawolf17]

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]

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.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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]

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.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

A pity. Miller is just about the best ever.

I hope he stays to do radio.

[Fman99]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

braaaaaaaiiiinnsss.....

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

PSST!

[metirish]

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.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Merged.

[Guest themetfairy]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Please not Sutcliffe (or Mark Grace!)

[HahnSolo]

No Berman, please.

[stevejrogers]

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]

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

[Guest The Second Spitter]

"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.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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.)