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Posted at 3:12pm on Apr. 18, 2007 "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

Or, "When murdered people are like baby elephants, and other similarly appalling comparisons"

By Jeff Emanuel

ESPN baseball analyst Joe Morgan made what is, in my opinion, an absolutely egregious faux pas while a guest on yesterday's edition of the Dan Patrick show on ESPN Radio. Asked what he thought about the Virginia Tech massacre, Morgan said:

I was sitting there yesterday, and to be honest with you, I was equating it a little bit to the Imus thing; here are kids going to school, not bothering anybody, trying to, you know, make something of themselves, trying to be better, and this is what they're subjected to. I mean, the kids who are still at that school, how are they going to handle this?

He went on to lament that, since this did not take place during football or basketball season, then "everyone that's involved, that was touched by it directly, they pretty much have to deal with it by themselves."

Are you kidding, Joe?

Read on . . .

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