Matt Morris isn't pitching these days because he has grown tired of
dealing with failure.
At 33, the former Cardinals ace says he's done playing after being
released by the Pittsburgh Pirates a couple of weeks ago.
[...]
In a telephone interview with the Post-Dispatch, Morris sounded
convinced he would make this stick.
Asked what his next move was, Morris laughed and said, "I don't have
any moves. That's the beauty of it. I'm moveless. I'm not looking for
anything."
Morris didn't say never, ever, but he said, "I'm not building a mound
in my backyard to make sure I get the ball down."
Before he was let go by the Pirates, he said they offered him a chance
to go on the disabled list, move to the bullpen or even be an
assistant to the general manager as one-time Cardinals teammate Alan
Benes is in St. Louis.
"I had all these op****tunities, but they just didn't make sense to
me," Morris said. "I'm not ready to get back into baseball right now."
Other teams have called Morris' agent in recent weeks, but Morris has
said he wasn't interested. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who was
interested last year before the Pirates acquired Morris from San
Francisco, said last weekend, "I wish our staff was set up differently
where we could bring him in."
St. Louis might be the only place where Morris would reconsider his
decision. And even that would be unlikely.
"The stress of where my career was to the downslope I was on was a
pain in the butt," he said. "Just dealing with failure wasn't fun. I
didn't want to keep doing it.
"I felt good. That was the problem. If I felt (poorly), that's one
thing. Maybe that can be fixed. But mentally, I was not there. My
heart just kind of moved away from the game. And once that happens,
it's hard to get it back.
"There's been a lot of wear and tear."
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