Throwing good money after bad

There's good news and bad: The good news: Joe Morgan will no longer be read since ESPN is moving his column to its premium service. The bad: Mike's baseball rants will no longer be parodying him.

Morgan can say that Dave Concepcion is the best man not in the Hall of Fame—he isn’t. Morgan can say that Billy Beane wrote Moneyball—he didn’t. Morgan can say that the A’s live and die in the postseason by the three-run-homer sword even as he says that the perfect playoff team is in the Oakland model of two premier starters and a good closer. Better yet, Morgan can evade or ignore questions he doesn’t like to pontificate about how the young whippersnappers today are inferior to the players in his day and especially the Randolph Scott-esque Big Red Machine.

No one will call him on it because no one can. Bloviate on, oh mighty warrior.

That those idiots at ESPN/Disney think they'll make money from Joe Morgan's fevered nonsense says loads about their business plan.