John Miller looked like a canary reading the yellow pages last night

My dad (lives in Chicago) and I usually text back and forth during games. Its the most bonding we get nowadays being so far apart. We were both so aggrevated by Joe Morgan and then Phillips (who I can usually tolerate) starts chiming in. At one point Morgan interupted Phillips’ diatribe on leadership to critize beltran trying to steal third with two strike becuase he’s in the line of site of the batter and that may distract him.
People in Cincinnati never really have a real reverence for Joe Morgan. I always chalked that up to latent racism. I’ve now decided its becaseu he’s a giant moron. It was at that point I turnned the game off and watchted the rest on gameday while listening to Howie on theFan.

I have never liked the ESPN broadcast of ballgames. Joe Morgan’s commentary makes me crazy. So many interesting things go on during a game and he is so fixated on what he’s talking about that he misses most of them.
Last night was a good example of this - and a reminder for why I mute the TV when Mets games are on ESPN.

To Morgan’s credit he spent most of the night trying to be the voice of reason to Steve Phillips stupid on going rants about things he knows nothing about. I’ve found Joe Morgan does better when teamed with Costas but Miller is a nightmare. And no Mets fan can stand Steve Phillips so I don’t understand why ESPN would let him work a game.

Seriously though now that MLB Network is on TV I barely watch ESPN anymore because they are terribad now save Peter Gammons and maybe Buster Onley. They suffer from jock and insider syndrome when hiring. Though admittedly the MLB N has some really bad jocks that can barely talk as well. I htink Howard Cosell’s prophetic speech of the jockocracy in sport broadcasting being it’s downfall has been coming to fruition the last decade or so. I’m sick of guys that can barely talkt being in a booth just because they used to play. SNY got lucky with Darling because he’s pro and Hernandez is amusing at least and knows his limits. But so many of the others are just awful.

Anyway it was a frustrating game but Cain had one of those nights where he got the lucky pitches and made it across the tightrope. In a 162 game season these games will happen and beside the balks Pelfrey pitched great. I will take him needing to work that out than the previous issues as I don’t think he will have this issue int he future.

All in all I still feel pretty good about this team, for now. I think we may have to work out Delgado’s missing bat with more than Sheffield, unless he keep playing better like he seems to be.

I was very irritated by the conversation. Yeah, maybe discuss it for one inning, but it kept going. Seemed pointless after two minutes. There are players that are stepping up into “leadership”, but since the ESPN crew does not announce Mets games day in and day out, there’s no reason for them to critique.