Monday, August 08, 2005
Don't dislike Joe Morgan?
Read this recent piece in SF Weekly on Joe Morgan and his strange aversion to the book Moneyball. Morgan claims he never read the book (although he read an excerpt in the New York Times when the book was released in 2003), but he thinks most of the tenets of the book are wrong. The article's an interesting read, and if you didn't mind Joe Morgan before, you'll loathe him now. (You don't even have to agree with any of the principles in Moneyball either).
Interestingly enough, Morgan was part of a group that sought to buy the A's in the late 1990s. Morgan's group beat out a number of other suitors (one group included former Cubs TV analyst Steve Stone, with whom Morgan has feuded), but Morgan had to drop out of the group, which never consumated the transaction. Is Morgan's dislike of all things Billy Beane tied to this failed bid?
Interestingly enough, Morgan was part of a group that sought to buy the A's in the late 1990s. Morgan's group beat out a number of other suitors (one group included former Cubs TV analyst Steve Stone, with whom Morgan has feuded), but Morgan had to drop out of the group, which never consumated the transaction. Is Morgan's dislike of all things Billy Beane tied to this failed bid?
