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In case you missed it, Sunday night’s game at Shea Stadium between the Mets and Dodgers has been switched to an 8:05 pm start and will air on ESPN.
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That has been known for two weeks. But thank you for the helpful info. I haft to say thank you for the fair judgment and being optimistic on willie Randolph
Any news on when the mets/yanks makeup will be?
There will be a day night double header going from game one in the bronxe to shea at night in there next seris. I think it will be a sunday one because espn has the sunday game and fox has a 3:55pm sat game
actually Espn doesn’t have the sunday night game
They were saying they may do it Friday afternoon/Friday night double header from stadium to stadium. As far as I’m concerned, the novelty of that has worn off significantly.
They should have simply played the game last sunday at 1PM.
If it is re-scheduled as a friday day/night double header, it will create an all-time NYC traffic hell.
Friday afternoons, during the summer are already
bad enough traffic wise. Police closed down the deegan & grand central the last 2 times they did this
although it was on a weekend. Now you combine that with 110,000 people trying to leave and get to a game at the same time during rush-hour with highways being closed!
Good thing I’m on vacation on that day.
And then we have to fly to the west coast for a Monday night game? All for a student/teacher game? When Did Joe v. Willie turn into Bobby Knight v. Coach K? Totally bogus
yea, that travel arrangement is just a tad unfair. They could have passed on that one anyway. I think ESPN smells the blood in the water and wants to get the exclusive on the game after Willie gets fired. Of course its too soon, if anything they will do it on the way back from SD. If the Mets struggle in SF and/or SD it should be the final nail in the coffin.
I think you’re all forgetting the worst part about this news: Joe Morgan will now be calling the game. Shoot me now.
Oh no i forgot that. uugghhh
And we get to listen to Jon Miller say Carlos BelTRAAAAN all night.
I hate ESPN games. Gary, Keith and Ron should bust into the broadcast booth with baseball bats and take the place by force.
They can use Delgado as their bodyguard… i think he’s not doing anything
Why? Delgado will only swing and miss anyway.
lmaoooo
Miller is just about the only guy that pronounces Beltran’s name correctly.
o please, he announces it like that because he wants us all to know how amazingly intelligent and bilingual he is. He has no idea he’s actually pronouncing it right. If he knew he was saying it correctly I’m sure he would immediately stop. I swear to god I’ve heard him roll the ‘r’ in David Wright.
I think he’s just enjoying himself and injecting a little fun into the broadcast. What’s so wrong with that?
And his pronunciation is 100% correct.
There’s a difference between saying “beltran” and “beltron” (the correct pronunciation) and “beltrohhhhnnnnnnnnn” which miller does.
it’s crap.
Agreed. It’s not “injecting fun,” it’s being an asinine showboat. Just call the frigging game, please. . . . And you don’t hear him calling Schoeneweis “Sher-ne-vize”)
also the way Miller says ” scenario”, he’s very pompous
Miller used to do the Orioles broadcasts, and since I live in DC and there was no team, I heard him a bunch.
He has very little bias and calls a fun game. I think Morgan drags him down for everybody.
I dislike Miller’s call of the game as much as anyone but I do appreciate his effort to pronounce players’ names correctly.
He pronounces Beltran’s name that way because he took the time to ask Carlos how he would like his last name pronounced. Every time Miller is unsure of how a player would like his name pronounced, he asks the player and then pronounces it the way he’s told. What’s wrong with that?
My own personal hell would be game 7 of the 2006 playoffs being played over and over and over again, but being called by a team of Joe Morgan and Mark Grace
Add Steve Lyons to that mix, and I’m right there with ya.
Chip Carey
does it get any worse?
Yes. Joe Morgan is the worst. Unabashedly obnoxious, pompous, and, more often than not, completely ignorant.
Joe(turn WFAN on) Buck
Thank heavens for the Sunday ticket plan!
well for folks outside of the ny area without a 5 LMB directv dish, it’s a way to see the game in HD. i’ll listen to the radio broadcast via mlb.com.
i wonder if he’ll talk about the big red machine
I look forward to a 3-hour dissertation on Joe Torre and the Yankees. If Joe Morgan actually says “Mets” more than 5x on the broadcast I will fall out of my chair.
The last thing anybody needs is Morgan and Miller commenting on the Mets with side bars from Peter Gammons in between those past-their-prime hacks mispronouncing the players names, repeating themselves, giving opinions based on wrong information, and repeating themselves.
I still cant get over it…..
Morgan: “Well, Castillo comes from the AL so he’s not used to the way the ball carries at Wrigley”
few moments later…..
Miller “Well, Castillo spent some time with the Marlins before signing with the Twins, so he might have some knowledge.”
good one Jon, kick save and a beauty…..
Apparently that disease spread to the Fox booth, because last Saturday Alex Karros was extolling the virtues of Luis Castillo’s “great years in Minnesota”, even though he’d spent less than two full seasons there.
You just pulled a Joe Morgan. Its Eric Karros.
D’oh! I think I was confusing him with ex-NFLer Alex “Webster’s Dad” Karras.
Mongo like candy!!!
Mongo only pawn in game of life!
Nice. Blazing Saddles is an all time favorite.
I did a post after the recent Sunday Night Mets/Yanks game tallying up Morgan’s greatest hits. Enjoy-
http://www.toastedjoe.blogspot.com/2008/05/f-g-shocker.html
You mean Hall of Famer Joe Morgan? haha some good quotes in there.
What about when he said that Delgado’s hit would have been a home run if there was instant replay, but then he remembered he is of the Old School, and said “but I still don’t think there should be replay in the game of baseball”
Toasty, I am trying to post a hyperlink in one of my comments but I can’t get it to work. Can you show me how to post one? you can email me the instructions-
shakashiri@aol.com
Noooooooo!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHYYYY??
jon miller and joe morgan are the worst announcers ever. gary keith and ron are the best announcers. morgan and miller make gary keith and ron the gods of announcing
And now this game won’t be viewable on mlb.tv for those out of marketers without cable… YAY
This really sucks – it was supposed to be a “Diamond dash” game where kids can run on the field after the game. I bought tickets to take my 5 year old daughter and her friend, and now the game won’t start until her bedtime. I’m pissed off, we were looking forward to it.
There are bigger issues than joe morgan…
I agree. It sucks for the fans when they shift a game to sunday night! Besides issues with kids and that certainly is a problem, people who have to get up early for work the next morning will be getting home at 2AM! This is crap….
It sucks for those of us who like to listen to competant broadcasters.
Same here. Stupid ESPN.
My brother and I got tickets to this game for the same reason, we wanted to take our sons to the game.
Now we’ll probably eat the tickets.
That’s why I won’t buy tickets for Sunday games. I don’t want to take a chance that it will get bumped to an 8:05 start. This happened to me last year.
In the immortal words of Joe Morgan regarding David Wright…”His body left too early but his foot was still on the base when the ball was caught”…..what what what?!?!?!?!?
The worst part about that inane comment was he was trying to make up for the fact that he said “the replay is gonna show Wright left too early,” so instead of just admitting he blew the call, he made up that preposterous theory about his upper body leaving too early. Windbag.
Had it been Beltran however, and had Morgan theorized that Beltran’s mole left the bag early while Beltran himself left the bag after the catch, I think we would’ve had to give it to him.
and the fact that he said it THREE times! Joe Morgan is such a hack. And before he accuses me of being racist, so is Jon Miller.
and then they have to fly to san fran for a game the next night. brilliant move mlb/espn.
ESPN wants to cash in on the controversy surrounding the Mets. They pay a lot of money for this right.
Good for them. Bad for us.
This means we’re gonna get to hear Morgan defending his BFF Willie for 3 hours, saying stuff like “if Willie Randolph is on the hot seat for a .500 record, why isn’t Joe Torre?”
I’m going to listen to that game on the radio.
Wayne Hagen isn’t much better. OK, I take that back. He is better than Morgan, but I can’t listen to him. He is certainly not Tom McCarthy (who was very good IMO).
..And I’m going to said game in San Francisco. Great, I get to travel 4,000 miles to see the Mets sleepwalk through another game.
Check this gem out, from espn.com’s chat with Joe Morgan yesterday:
SprungOnSports (Long Island): Do you think Willie Randolph should be fired for the Mets’ recent failures, or are his players or the GM more at fault?
Joe Morgan: If you’re going to fire Willie, you’d have to fire Jim Leyland, John McLaren, Bud Black, and Ned Yost. The list could go on and on. Why is he the one being picked on when so many other teams are playing below their potential. Maybe Willie’s point of playing under more scrutiny is a valid one.
I haft to agree with joe. Also you haft ti put giradi in there to. sorry i spelled giraida wrong . i can spell for crap
He is under more scrutiny … …………t’s called NEW YORK
I’ve actually gotten to the point that I enjoy joe and his silliness. it keeps me laughing.
Joe Morgan and Jon Miller make Buck and McCarver sound like Gary Keith and Ron.
I won’t go that far
I would. I hate Tim McCarver, and even though Joe Buck sucks, I can tolerate him sometimes. I absolutely loathe Miller’s showboat act and Morgan’s idiocy.
Maybe the reason those other managers aren’t under the same spotlight is because THEY DIDN’T PRESIDE OVER THE BIGGEST REGULAR SEASON COLLAPSE IN BASEBALL HISTORY!!
I guess they all had teams collapse like a deck of cards last year, too…
Can Morgan still hit?
I guarantee you Jon Miller wears his yellow shirt with the white collar. That one is a gimme. He wears it every week. If you never noticed, start taking notice. It’s almost as annoying as listening to the two of them.
I can’t believe he still rocks the Gordon Gekko look!
The worst part about that shirt is it used to be all white.
Sweet, I have tickets for that game and they moved it. Only problem is that I live in Boston and I now I can’t go to the game because I’d get home at 4 am.
I called ticket office and they said if you mail the tickets back they will exchange them or refund you the money (minus the service charge of course)
What game was supposed to air this Sunday instead, and why was it changed? I thought these Sunday night games were set in stone before the season even begins.
I know what this means. I’m puttin’ the TV on mute and blasting the iTunes!
damn those espn executives. Now i can’t see the mets in Hd for free on the cw11