Joe Morgan, in Sunday night's Mets-Cards opener, seemed eager to remind us that calmly stated, avuncular nonsense is still nonsense. Of Joe Smith, the Mets' 23-year-old reliever who was born and raised in Cincinnati, Morgan said, "He told me he grew up watching The Big Red Machine." If that was the case, Morgan should have straightened the kid out. The Big Red Machine, teams on which Morgan starred, played from 1972 through 1976. Smith was born in 1984.
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