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Friday, June 13, 2014
Michael Morse wasn’t the sharpest pencil in the box in the Washington Nationals clubhouse when he was here. Nice guy, good for some laughs, but if the clubhouse ever had to show up for a collective IQ test, let’s just say it would be a good time for Morse to take one of his many trips to the disabled lis
This article is from Tuesday but seems to be a point of discussion on KNBR today
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1. dr. scott Posted: June 13, 2014 at 04:10 PM (#4725268)this is why he wrote the article.... he claims Morse is insulting the fans... so this guy writes how stupid morse is. Class.
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1) Morse has been playing more 1B than LF this season because Brandon Belt has missed the past several weeks after getting hit in the hand.
2) The Braves losing young pitchers to injury in way provides a compelling counterfactual to what might have happened had the Nationals not shut down Strasburg.
3) I'm not seeing the nexus between Morse getting injured and his intelligence or its bearing on his opinion regarding the handling of Strasburg.
tl;dr version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
Nats have gotten 22 LF/RF/1B starts from McClouth (179/298/245), 16 from Moore (214/295/371), and 13 from Frandsen (237/293/307).
Hey Loverro, let me hit you with a little cluebat: just about every single player on that Nats team had an issue with the shutdown, and a lot of them almost certainly still get irked when they think about it. Most of them just can't talk openly about it the way Morse can now because most of them are still on the team and don't want to cause problems with their boss. Ryan Zimmerman put his entire freaking career at risk to keep playing through that entire season and the playoffs!
And if you don't understand that, you're far less intelligent than Morse is.
Yeah, makes this seem kind of stupid. Morse has hit a ton for the Giants this year. This is akin to the recent idiocy here about how teams were better off without ARod (their records improved, so naturally he must have been holding them back, right?).
This is just part of Sabean's deal with the devil -- see Huff, Burrell, Scutaro, etc.
A year from now when the Phils have released Ryan Howard, Sabean will pick him up for league minimum and he'll hit 50 HR in 4 months. That's just how baseball works.
yeah, I dont understand why Loverro goes in that direction when the decision to shut down Strasburg was certainly questionable despite what the current Giants DL is like. That just stirs up Nats fans and doesnt help whatever argument he's trying to make.
Dan Kolko covered the Nats series at the Giants for MASN and reported that the fans seemed anywhere from "meh" to "so-so" about the whole "Take On Me" thing, so the next level in S.F. must be two steps down.
I'm not paying attention to the rest of the noise so have no comment on that.
Of course the downside of that deal is watching them tank/crumble into a simpering pile of injuries after inking a big extension. Usually the Devil deals in souls, but I think Sabean already sold his to get that 2006-9 drafting streak, or maybe for the Williams/Kent trade.
Or a steroid test. Really, if he hears the word "test", Morse should just find a nice fallout shelter to hide in for a while.
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