I would be willing to bet I saw Jack Morris pitch more times than Heyman did....

....and I don't think he's a Hall of Famer.

Hey, I saw Milt Wilcox come within one out of pitching a perfect game!

Can't do much better than that!

Does he get in?

But I SAW it!

Jack Morris

When my wife was a teenager, she was driving with a friend in an unfamiliar neighborhood and became lost.

They used the apron of a driveway of a large house to turn around. That house was owned by Jack Morris.

He happened to be outside at the time and told these two young nice ladies to "Get the hell out of here!"

I don't care if Jack Morris gets elected to the Hall of Fame.

(Now I could see if they were driving like a real a big cement truck and cracked the driveway or something but apparently they were just driving a Volvo.)

Morris vs Schilling

Boston Globe columnist, Dan Shaughnessy writing for Sports Illustrated has a recent article up on the SI website on his Hall of Fame ballot.

It is actually rather boring with the exception of this gem of a paragraph:

"(Jack) Morris won 254 games in 18 seasons and pitched one of the greatest World Series games of all time, a 10-inning, 1-0 Game 7 victory over the Braves in 1991. There's already support for Boston blowhard Curt Schilling, who won't be on the ballot for another three years, but Morris has to get in before Schilling gets in. Morris was better."

Hmmm. This is interesting as it does not really square with my recollection of these two players but I am human and prone to error just like everybody else so let's check this out.

Ok did it.

Here are the stats:

Jack Morris: 254-186, .577 winning percentage, 3.90 ERA (just think about that number for a potential Hall of Famer), 1.29 WHIP, 5.8 K/9 rate, 3.3 BB/9 rate.
Post season - 7-4, 3.80 ERA (What would his ERA have been without that 1991 game?)

Curt Schilling: 216-146, .597 winning percentage, 3.46 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 8.6 K/9 rate,2.0 BB/9 rate.
Post season - 11-2, 2.23 ERA

Sorry, not close. Morris, while good, is just a poser compared to Schilling.

Shaughnessy, you are killing me here with hysterical appendicitis-inducing laughter. Just killing me.

You are stealing from Sports Illustrated.

Ok, that's a little strong.

But if I was them, I wouldn't pay.