...sometimes I really miss Fire Joe Morgan. I get most of my inspiration for this blog from them, and their website was probably the funniest on the Internet for sports fans. Yeah yeah, I'm glad that all their members are successful big shots now (especially Michael Schur; how many people in the country would give their left testicle to be "related" to Dwight Schrute?), but a small part of me still hopes that they'll be pushed one bad Jon Heyman article too far and have to go back into full-scale angry blogging mode for another 3 years. Unlikely, but possible, right?
I say yes, because as long as articles like this:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3989234
keep getting written, I don't think FJM will keep being able to control their anger. Basically, the premise is that trading your best hitter makes your team better because "it makes other guys step up" and "not have to defer to the star anymore," as if this is fucking basketball and you can actually do things like that. Now I know why the Yankees didn't win the 1925 World Series: Babe Ruth was too good! They should have traded him so that other players would have stepped up! Think of all those times that Earle Combs struck out on purpose with the bases loaded so that he could "defer" to Ruth; without the Bambino, Combs could have gone 54-for-54 in those situations with 211 RBIs! What were the Yankees thinking?
Ken Tremendous, Junior, dak, and I guess Coach and Murbles (did they ever post anything after the year 2005?): please come back. Angry, cynical sports bloggers really need you guys.
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