May 14, 2007

Fire Morgan Now

During the Twins' glorious, nationally-televised 16-4 win over the Tigers last night, announcer Jon Miller stupidly decided to engage his broadcast partner, Joe Morgan, about the latter's favorite subject, blogs.

Asked by Miller if he ever reads Buster Olney's blog on ESPN.com, Morgan replied that no, he doesn't have time to read blogs, mostly because he's too busy on the golf course. I don't know what's worse- that Morgan said that, or that Miller doesn't know his own partner's infamous opinions on the subject.

Olney gets up every day, reads about 40 newspaper sports sections, and links to every single relevant story that's about baseball. His news aggregation model might be the best on the entire Internet, to the point where I brought his name up in a web strategy meeting at my office. And it's not like he's an amateur-in-his-pajamas type blogger. Buster's been a top journalist for about two decades, and the stuff he links to is... old media, newspaper stuff. Morgan wouldn't have any interest in that.

All I can say is, Fire. Morgan. Now. It worked with Rumsfeld.

As for the Twinkies, they've been looking a bit weak in the lineup lately, so it was good to see them show some pop. I just wish they could've spread it out over the whole series. And in other good Twins news- no more Sidney Ponson!

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 14, 2007 04:58 PM
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