I'll tell you my beef with Joe Morgan: as a broadcaster, I think he's lazy. I'll give you a two examples:
1. Last year, Morgan was doing a Sox game on Sunday night. 'tek had just come off the disabled list, but it was a Wakefield start and so Mirabelli was catching. For 6 inning, Joe was going on and on, "Why isn't Varitek out there? If he's still hurt he shouldn't have come off the disabled list... You should have you best players out there... I don't understand this logic..." Meanwhile, Miller is trying to tell him that Mirabelli catches the knuckleball better, but Joe still isn't listening, cause he keeps harping about it. He even went so far as to ask Francona about it during an interview between innings, eliciting an 'are you serious?' look I haven't seen since the day I asked my girlfriend if we really needed more than 6 plates in the house.
Lineups come out HOURS before the game starts. Had he bothered to actually do some pre-game research, he would have seen Mirabelli in the lineup and asked someone about it and found out that Mirabelli is Wake's personal catcher without going on air and embarassing himself to an entire region.
2. He's very proud of himself because he never read the book "Moneyball" and constantly puts down "the author Billy Beane." Congrats Joe, only the book was written by Michael Lewis. And if you've never read it, maybe you shouldn't critizes whats in it, considering you don't really know. It's his job to be knowledgable about all things baseball and just cause he might not agree with the philosophy of the book doesn't mean he still shouldn't have read it. It's called homework, Joe. Nobody likes it, but we all have to do it in our job at one time or another.
If you don't care enough to do the work and be ready to call a game, then retire and let someone else do it.
