Idiots Write About Sports

I know I should leave this to the geniuses at Fire Joe Morgan, but I’m sitting here watching the Giants-Dodgers game on ESPN. And enjoying it, mostly because my DirecTV subscription means that I never get to see the Giants in high-def, except for these precious Sunday night appearances.

Anyway, Sunday Night Baseball is on, and it’s basically the Barry Bonds Show. No, not that Barry Bonds show. Peter Gammons is talking Bonds, and Pedro Gomes is talking Bonds. There’s no commercial break after the top of the first, so that we can watch Bonds take the field — live! — to the boos of Dodger fans who, we all know, used to cheer him and throw roses onto the warning track.

To make up for it, ESPN then shows commercials rather than the bottom of the first inning. Okay, I made that last one up.

But then Joe Morgan does something stupid — he starts talking. It happens a lot. And Joe explains that the big problem with Barry Bonds is that he’s lost his confidence, that he’s struggling with his confidence, and that maybe he shouldn’t be playing so often because he’s struggling and it makes him sad.

Let’s leave the usual Joe Morgan gaps in logic aside for the moment and focus on this one statement: Barry Bonds is having confidence problems.

Yeah, that Barry Bonds, if only he were more self-confident.

I’m sure that’s his problem, Joe. Absolutely.

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