10-05-2009, 03:33 PM
<!--quoteo(post=65401:date=Oct 5 2009, 02:26 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Oct 5 2009, 02:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Coldneck, if that's the case, I 100% agree with you. Fuck that with a stick.
There's even evidence that this is a trend; Joe Morgan, one of the few players alive who could be called a "peer" of Ryno, was the ultimate Moneyball player, yet is that ultimate anti-Moneyball curmudgeon now.
Another Dusty/Don Baylor type would kill me.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think Morgan (aside from being an idiot and a douchebag) just has a problem with who he perceives as "eggheads" who think they understand baseball. Not to simplify it, but I'm sure he was a douchebag jock type growing up all the way through high school and college who looked down on the "nerds." Now the nerds seem to think they understand the game that he excelled at -- maybe they understand it better than him. How the fuck can they understand this game -- they've never suited up and played in their lives -- much less at the elite level that I played at (that last sentence was the inside of Morgan's brain).
There's even evidence that this is a trend; Joe Morgan, one of the few players alive who could be called a "peer" of Ryno, was the ultimate Moneyball player, yet is that ultimate anti-Moneyball curmudgeon now.
Another Dusty/Don Baylor type would kill me.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think Morgan (aside from being an idiot and a douchebag) just has a problem with who he perceives as "eggheads" who think they understand baseball. Not to simplify it, but I'm sure he was a douchebag jock type growing up all the way through high school and college who looked down on the "nerds." Now the nerds seem to think they understand the game that he excelled at -- maybe they understand it better than him. How the fuck can they understand this game -- they've never suited up and played in their lives -- much less at the elite level that I played at (that last sentence was the inside of Morgan's brain).