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Joe Morgan story:

My brother and I were at Wrigley Watching the Cubs play the Astros. Can’t remember if Sosa was still playing or not. If so it would’ve been the tail end of his career.

Anyway, during batting practice my brother and I were standing on the fence about 15 feet past 3rd base. While we’re standing there, walking in from the outfield down the left field line is a couple of guys in suits. They make it all the way to us and we realize it’s Joe Morgan and someone else from the Sunday Night Baseball crew.

We say something to Joe, he comes over, we briefly exchange a few words, and my brother asks him to sign his program. As my brother goes to hand Morgan the marker, Joe just says “cap’s still on it” and just walks down the 3rd base line.

No one noticed him before he got to us, and I don’t think anyone said anything to him as he walked the rest of the way to home. We were both in our mid-to-late 20’s at the time, so perhaps he would’ve acted different if we were younger, but just thought that it was hilarious he big-timed is in that fashion when literally no one else knew who he was. Wasn’t even mad, was just funny to me.
 
Bob_The_Cat said:
Joe Morgan story:

My brother and I were at Wrigley Watching the Cubs play the Astros. Can’t remember if Sosa was still playing or not. If so it would’ve been the tail end of his career.

Anyway, during batting practice my brother and I were standing on the fence about 15 feet past 3rd base. While we’re standing there, walking in from the outfield down the left field line is a couple of guys in suits. They make it all the way to us and we realize it’s Joe Morgan and someone else from the Sunday Night Baseball crew.

We say something to Joe, he comes over, we briefly exchange a few words, and my brother asks him to sign his program. As my brother goes to hand Morgan the marker, Joe just says “cap’s still on it” and just walks down the 3rd base line.

No one noticed him before he got to us, and I don’t think anyone said anything to him as he walked the rest of the way to home. We were both in our mid-to-late 20’s at the time, so perhaps he would’ve acted different if we were younger, but just thought that it was hilarious he big-timed is in that fashion when literally no one else knew who he was. Wasn’t even mad, was just funny to me.
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I was at a spring training Indians game and my son was getting a baseball signed by Encarnación. I had a twist to open sharpie that i handed him closed by accident. He thought it was a normal cap and went to pull the cap off and the pen just exploded into a 100 pieces. I will never forget the shocked looked on Edwin's face. He looked at me and said a very sincere "sorry". The kid next to my son handed Edwin his pen, Edwin signed my ball and the nice kid's ball and went on and apologized again. I couldnt stop laughing, neither could my son. I looked down on the field and could see the pen fragments. It was hilarious and who wouldnt sacrifice a $3 pen for a lifetime memory with my son.

Honestly I go a couple spring training games a year with my son, and Edwin might have been the nicest player toward the kids/fans of all time in the 10 years or so i have been going. I will always respect him for that.
 
Bob_The_Cat said:
Joe Morgan story:

My brother and I were at Wrigley Watching the Cubs play the Astros. Can’t remember if Sosa was still playing or not. If so it would’ve been the tail end of his career.

Anyway, during batting practice my brother and I were standing on the fence about 15 feet past 3rd base. While we’re standing there, walking in from the outfield down the left field line is a couple of guys in suits. They make it all the way to us and we realize it’s Joe Morgan and someone else from the Sunday Night Baseball crew.

We say something to Joe, he comes over, we briefly exchange a few words, and my brother asks him to sign his program. As my brother goes to hand Morgan the marker, Joe just says “cap’s still on it” and just walks down the 3rd base line.

No one noticed him before he got to us, and I don’t think anyone said anything to him as he walked the rest of the way to home. We were both in our mid-to-late 20’s at the time, so perhaps he would’ve acted different if we were younger, but just thought that it was hilarious he big-timed is in that fashion when literally no one else knew who he was. Wasn’t even mad, was just funny to me.
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I experienced Joe a few times in both a professional and "social" setting...I did not find him pleasant, but small sample size certainly applies here, too. :cool:
As a broadcaster, he was a wealth of knowledge, even if I did not appreciate his style.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
Then why do it? Being 100% serious.
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We've never run into these problems before and we're on the hook for 3 leagues now.

There's a sweet spot in playing where you want, on a team you want to be on in a league you want to be in and the easiest way to get there is to manage it yourself. Managing affords a list of positives to go along with the negatives. Balancing act.

Moving away from managing, but that really limits your freedom and what you're able to do and where you're able to play, and w the type of people you're playing with and against.
 
David. said:
We've never run into these problems before and we're on the hook for 3 leagues now.

There's a sweet spot in playing where you want, on a team you want to be on in a league you want to be in and the easiest way to get there is to manage it yourself. Managing affords a list of positives to go along with the negatives. Balancing act.

Moving away from managing, but that really limits your freedom and what you're able to do and where you're able to play, and w the type of people you're playing with and against.
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So it's all your fault you guys were playing these douchebags?
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
So it's all your fault you guys were playing these douchebags?
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The problem is after you've started a season you're stuck in in.

They have a 50 dollar forfiet deposit per league, and all the players who have paid you are livid if you cancel the season. Which is basically where we're at. Last thing I want to do is give the park any more money, but I'd I let the team fold, the players get pissed and they keep my deposits.

Pretty shitty position to be in
 
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Good amount of shit talking after my last tournament.. I got shit on for hitting like 550 (but with 5 hr)

So, for the last 2 months I've worked on swinging down and my average shot from 550 to 800plus.

Thought I figured it all out.

Did some math and it was actually better swinging for power. Ops and expected runs per at bat were significantly higher.

Swinging down is a great tool for the box, gonna go back to the drawing board and implement a "gap or gone" approach.

Everything needs to fly if I'm gonna get multi bags per at bat. I am so averse to putting a ball in the air because I think no matter what, one of the 4 fast as fuck guys out there is going to get to it if I hit it past 230, 20 feet in the air. But if you're hitting middle of the ball at an ok angle, that shits shooting off at 100mph. Infield has to cover a fraction of what the outfield has to cover. 70 percent of line drives IN THE MLB go for base hits. Just have to get a little bit more lift than I have been and that ops will stay up there.

Ops is around 2.6 last two weeks, expected runs per at bat is roughly .8/ab. I get 4.0 and higher when I'm not focused solely on getting on base and let it fly a bit. That drops to 1.6-2 if my intent is to be safe and not get out.
 
David. said:
Good amount of shit talking after my last tournament.. I got shit on for hitting like 550 (but with 5 hr)

So, for the last 2 months I've worked on swinging down and my average shot from 550 to 800plus.

Thought I figured it all out.

Did some math and it was actually better swinging for power. Ops and expected runs per at bat were significantly higher.

Swinging down is a great tool for the box, gonna go back to the drawing board and implement a "gap or gone" approach.

Everything needs to fly if I'm gonna get multi bags per at bat. I am so averse to putting a ball in the air because I think no matter what, one of the 4 fast as fuck guys out there is going to get to it if I hit it past 230, 20 feet in the air. But if you're hitting middle of the ball at an ok angle, that shits shooting off at 100mph. Infield has to cover a fraction of what the outfield has to cover. 70 percent of line drives IN THE MLB go for base hits. Just have to get a little bit more lift than I have been and that ops will stay up there.

Ops is around 2.6 last two weeks, expected runs per at bat is roughly .8/ab. I get 4.0 and higher when I'm not focused solely on getting on base and let it fly a bit. That drops to 1.6-2 if my intent is to be safe and not get out.
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Well sounds like you just have to find the balance and sounds like you can almost do situational hitting now talent wise. When two strikes, make sure you get the hit otherwise as long as you don't lose a good swing, kill that ball! Lol
 
sportscoach said:
Well sounds like you just have to find the balance and sounds like you can almost do situational hitting now talent wise. When two strikes, make sure you get the hit otherwise as long as you don't lose a good swing, kill that ball! Lol
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It's been so long since I've swung straight or up, I really am terrified to do it.infinitelu easier to miss that way.

Swinging down, you're either hitting it hard as fuck on the ground or a line drive. Up, you're hitting a line drive or popping up. If I can get that line drive/hr rate to 700, I'd be more than happy
 

Came across this while on YouTube about Super Joe. Very interesting and explains a lot. I was 12 years old during this season and still remember the excitement.
 
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