There were four types of people watching the Dodgers-Cubs game on ESPN Sunday night: Dodgers fans, Cubs fans, people who enjoy pain, and
AA’s Brian Powell, because he knew that at some point Joe Morgan would bring up his fishing trip with Matt Franco, which would inevitably death roll into some conversation about meeting Kurt Russell:
I have no doubt that a man like Joe Morgan, who thinks statistics are meaningless, truly believes there is a definitive answer to, “Which guy hit the hardest line drives most consistently?” Sadly, that’s not actually a trivia question. A real trivia question, for example, would be, “The name of the film in which Kurt Russell played Snake Plissken was A)
Escape from New York, B)
Escape from L.A.?”
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This would be hilarious except for the sad thought that Morgan has dragged Miller down into the depths of idiocy. Thank you for one more example of this formerly great ballplayer demonstrating his social myopia. “Of course I got this trivia question right…”. And stopping just short of calling Miller a fool for naming Winfield. Wow.
by slugger3 on Jun 10, 2008 9:21 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t know what’s worse, the fact they spent a good 4 minutes on Al Oliver and who hit the hardest line drives, or the fact Chan Ho Park has an ERA in the very low 2.00’s.
by npcPronk29 on Jun 11, 2008 10:53 AM EDT reply actions
I’m sorry, there was a baseball game going on during all that? I never would’ve known.
by cmottram on Jun 11, 2008 11:36 AM EDT reply actions
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