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Armstrong & Getty

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Joe Morgan passed away, and Jack & Joe talk about the great '70's Red's teams...plus X-Games guys.

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0:00.0	They called him the Glovenator.
0:01.6	The great Joe Morgan has passed.
0:03.3	It's one more thing.
0:05.1	Armstrong and Getty.
0:06.4	One more thing.
0:09.3	What now?
0:10.4	Joe Morgan, who was a great infielder for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970s during the Big Red machine era has passed.
0:18.0	The only reason I bring it up is because one of my golf buddies was the Reds
0:22.8	AAA second baseman for Joe Morgan's entire career. And that was before free agency. So he spent
0:30.8	his entire career waiting for Joe Morgan to get it by a bus. Well, if that were to happen,
0:36.5	that's the way it goes.
0:38.3	But yeah, because there's no free agency, he couldn't escape.
0:40.6	He was under contract.
0:42.0	So he just, he hardly got a sniff.
0:43.7	I think he was up for a fair amount, but as a backup and never really got to play
0:47.9	Major League Baseball back in the day.
0:50.4	I experienced it.
0:50.9	I loved baseball at that point.
0:52.5	It was terrible for the players.
0:56.9	It was great for the owners, great for the fans.
0:59.1	Two out of three ain't that, huh?
1:06.9	I experienced Joe Morgan almost entirely just from his role as a broadcaster and one of the best I've ever seen call a game.
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