As only Piers Morgan could, the liberal former CNN host went on a Twitter rant Tuesday evening complaining that teams not from the United States are unable to compete in the World Series (plus the Toronto Blue Jays, but who’s counting).
In a series of tweets starting just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern, Morgan whined that only Major League Baseball (MLB) teams can compete for the title in the Fall Classic before dismissing the sport by touting cricket as “[b]aseball for brainy people anyway.” Wasting no time, Morgan unleashed his outrage on the America’s game by wondering in the first tweet:
Invoking the sport of soccer and its popularity in England (aka his home country), he suggested that: “I guess one way to ensure you’re ‘World Champions’ is by only having American teams. England should try that with football.”
It was in his third tweet that Morgan mocked the intelligence of baseball players and fans by also promoting cricket:
Later in the tirade, he got a little tripped up with this fallacy in alluding to how the English Premier League (EPL) team Arsneal has players that come from all over the world but do not “call ourselves ‘World Champions’ if we win domestic trophies.”
Morgan refused to let up as he went after the NFL and NBA for also referring to their league champions as “World Champions”:
Seemingly trying to mock critics on Twitter, Morgan ruled in a tweet tagged 9:23 p.m. Eastern that he was “hereby declaring myself a World Champion Piers Morgan Tweeter, despite the fact only I can tweet under my name.”
Screen caps of the tweets mocking the World Series from Morgan’s Twitter account on October 27 can be found below.
