Not the way you want to start the week Frank.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I use to like him as a ballplayer.

Always thought that twitch he did at bat w/ this shoulder was interesting.

Then the years as a broadcast shiting on sandberg because of spite and jealousy ruined him for me and many cub fans.

his so called glorious announcing team w/ boring ass John Miller - never got. Those 2 put me to sleep more everytime they were doing a game.

RIP

Saying Sandberg wasn't as good as Morgan is like saying Santo wasn't as good as Mike Schmidt. No disgrace. Morgan had career 244 errors. Sandberg an amazing only 109. Sandberg would rarely dive up the middle. More between first and him. He'd give an obligatory swipe at balls barely bending his waist. Some Cub fans would be pissed he didn't dive. But I've heard ex players say he had such instinct, and a quick first step it made up for it.

The Big Red Machine had 3 hall of famers, plus Pete Rose. To me all great players. But, in order of impactfulness during the BRMs heyday I rank them Rose, Bench, Morgan, Perez. Not to take anything away from the greatness of Joe Morgan.

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The correct order is Morgan, Bench, Rose, Perez.

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You'd probably have Bench first but for the fact he always wore a mask.

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Bad baseball thoughts in the last two days. Get your shit together.

Yes...and I'd insert Foster and Griffey Sr. before Perez.

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Foster and Perez were interchangeable. Griffey shouldn't be mentioned.
The correct order is Bench, Rose, Morgan, Perez/Foster. Bench is a top 5 catcher of all time.

Are you guys in your 60s? 70s?

If you Google all-time best Reds polls or articles from Cincinnati media it's interesting. One did have Morgan 1. Some had Rose or Bench 1. Interestingly Morgan was 4 behind Frank Robinson repeatedly.

Just scroll by.

That was 10x funnier than anything Bill Burr said the other night .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

And Morgan is either the best or second best (Eddie Collins) second baseman ever.

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Bully for Joe that he was the best "2nd baseman".

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Bully for Bench that he was the fifth best catcher.

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Blind squirrel...

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Morgan was a nice little player who was protected with greatness in front of him and greatness behind him. Not so much in Houston but he still was an OBP monster.

Have you had this argument before? That Joe was the best Red ever? Did Joe pull you aside one day and convince you?

Joe Morgan
50 games
5 HR
15 RBI
9 Doubles
37 walks
6 playoff series wins
2 World Series rings


Ryne Sandberg
10 games
1HR
6 RBI
5 Doubles
6 walks
0 playoff series wins
0 world series rings

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Extrapolate Ryno's postseason numbers to 50 games and wow!

He would have made the BRM that much more dominant in the postseason. Thanks Frank!

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Hypotehtical Playoff Ryno would be a stud!

Meanwhile, real playoff Paul Konerko was better

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Get a load of Meatball Frank moving the goalposts over here!

DOINK.

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Jet moved them.

I split the uprights there, just as I did with my earlier comments. No Parkey here.

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Those huge OBP numbers are even more impressive because of who surrounded him.

It's funny how you much of a rabbit hole you can go down on Baseball Reference. I ended up going from Joe Morgan to Ted Williams (looking at OBP), to the 1941 MVP race (which Williams lost to Dimaggio, despite hitting .406 and an OBP of .553). Then I noticed that Bob Feller finished third in MVP voting despite of WHIP of 1.4. Today, a 1.4 basically gets you kicked out of the league.

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Yeah, the Ted Williams page is really quite something.

Him missing 3 years of his absolute peak is well known but it’s still amazing to see it in black and white.

Hit .350 with an OBP of .499, left for the war, came back 3 years later and didn’t miss a beat the rest of his career til he was 40.

Unbelievable

Just own it meatball.

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Like you did in the Sox section?

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Take the L on this Frank. You specifically said "output per October game". Your follow-up doesn't stick to that criteria.

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