Sports Collector‏ @SportsCollector 4m4 minutes ago

No one seemed to be having more fun in retirement than Roy Halladay. Tragic.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/plane-register ... /489944976

Damn.


Flying is dangerous.

And Roy Halladay died too!

Oh no. Wow.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

That is turrible. Seems like he was finally living his dream after retirement. I hate to say it but at least he passed doing
something he loved. Obviously feel awful for his wife and two sons. From everything I've read, he was a really good guy.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

First Lidle and now Holliday? Stop flying your own planes pitchers!

Sad. He was the ace on my keeper league baseball team for a lot of years. Loved watching him pitch. He used to use the rarely used Palm Ball.

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Seems to me like he was still pitching I’d hear his name so often.

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Elections have consequences.

He's the answer to a few trivia questions.

Last no hitter in post season
Cy Young in both leagues

And John Denver’s name gets pushed further from our memories .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

♫ You came on my pillow, like a horse in a forest ... ♫


Now is he (Roy) properly dead or considered dead or just might be dead?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Sounds like a terrible dream to me.

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"Dead" dead.

Proper Dead.

Dead.

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RIP

I saw him pitch once vs. Buehrle. It was a 6 pm Saturday start on fireworks night. I think both of them threw complete games and the fireworks started with the suns till out as the game was about 2 hours in duration.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

That's a bad look.

RIP Roy. You were fun to watch.

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That sucks. Hope he gets into Cooperstown posthumously, even though baseball-reference has him in Mike Mussina pitcher purgatory. Hard to argue against him being one of the very best pitchers of the 2000s.

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One of the best games I ever watched in person

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxe ... 7280.shtml

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Well hell then.

Strange how big a difference there was with his pitch control while on the mound compared to his pitch control while flying a plane.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

How is he not a HOFer?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

because Cooperstown is dumb and overvalues W-L

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

He won 200 games. That's a lot of games nowadays. He's in. He has got to be.

So they overvalue W-L and still don't think a .659 winning percentage is good enough? I doubt that.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I dunno, his comps are all HOVGers like Oswalt, Guidry, Mussina, Gooden, and Hudson. Though maybe Tim Hudson will get in and the point will be moot. But I think he should get in. The short-term high-profile dominance with Philly probably overrides the long-term low-profile dominance with Toronto.

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If we are going to lower standards that much, there's about 50 guys that would deserve to go in before Halladay.

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Name em

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Incidentally, Mussina actually should get in before Halladay, that he's not in baffles me.

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This particular model of ICON aircraft crashed 20 minutes after take off back in May, during the development phase:



so the prototype crashes and then the first production craft crashes as well.

Ridiculous.

Halladay is a lock.


Cy Young in both leagues, finished in top 5 of Cy Voting 7 times.

162 game average of 17-9 with a 3.38 ERA and much of it in the Steroid era AL East.