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What the fuck has happened to this place? "content beaver?" You've picked up a lot of weird followers over the years, Robb.

A few years ago, Ben, Bryan and I used to write for a website called Trotting Krips. I made a fake user to announce updates, the "content beaver." Like, when there was new content for the site, the content beaver would let everyone know. The CON-tent beaver/

A few months ago, my friend Jenny, who had encountered the content beaver on the Internet through auxiliary means, said that at first she thought it meant content, as in satisfied. The content beaver. The con-TENT beaver.

Either way works for me.

I am not sure who is currently posting as the content beaver, but I love him or her very dearly for doing so.

Bugs wrote:Given the late start to his dominant career, will we see Roy in the HoF one day? And what hat will he be wearing?

I gotta think that Doc is a first-ballot hall of famer, and goes in with a Jays cap. (Especially since he signed the one-day contract with Toronto. Which is also the Jay's biggest move at the winter meetings so far. Ouch...)

I guess it's OK for me to go ahead and get the Chinese knock-off HALLADAY 32 jersey now that I know he won't be playing for NY or BOS.

He was the rare bright spot in a pretty grim period, that's for sure. But HoF? I'm not sure. Convince my white ass.

I have just one question.

Can someone explain to me why the Toronto Blue Jays are in the American League? I didn't quite get to go that far, when our family visited Niagara Falls in 2002, we only went as far as St. Catherine's, about 10 miles, Toronto was another 60 miles up the QEW in Ontario.

"Tonight on ESPN, the World Series, Live from Tokyo!"
- Total Recall

Don't mean to post twice but I should clarify my comment. If I'm not mistaken, there are no Canadian football teams in the NFL, is that correct? So why is a Canadian baseball team in the American league?

Does the NFL have a restrictive rule or is it just that there's a lot more money in Football and as such, the Canadian teams can't afford the buy-in, or they just never had any teams good enough to get into the NFL but baseball is easier or they just snuck in when the standards were lower?

Bugs wrote:He was the rare bright spot in a pretty grim period, that's for sure. But HoF? I'm not sure. Convince my white ass.

Well:

2 Cy Young Awards, finished in the top 5 voting 7 times.

8 time All-Star. (I think All-Star appearances mean a little more in baseball than they do in football. It seems like with football, you can have 6 guys technically be All-Pro quarterbacks per conference because guys get hurt and don't go.)

7 times he was the league leader in complete games. I feel this will count as a "throwback" stat for the 90 year old apeshitters that actually do the voting for the HoF. Not having a hint of steroid use will also help.

You can make the argument that for a stretch of time he was the best pitcher in baseball. In 2011, when Clayton Kershaw won the Cy Young award, Roy had a greater WAR - 8.9 to 6.5. (I really do believe that should have been his third Cy Young.)

I think he'll get warm memories for pitching against NY and Boston for 12 years.

Here's what he's got for various hall of fame monitors:

Black Ink Pitching - 48, Average HOFer ≈ 40

Gray Ink Pitching - 180, Average HOFer ≈ 185

Hall of Fame Monitor Pitching - 126, Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Pitching - 45 , Average
HOFer ≈ 50

The Black Ink test is about how many amazing things you've done (top 5 in various categories), gray ink is the same, but for a top 10 finish. Instinct would say that Doc's career was a year or two too short, and the gray ink test shows that. He didn't quite "hang around" like a lot of HoF pitchers did, to rack up those extra finishes where he was the 9th best in the league at something.

And a perfect game as the cherry on top! Even though it was in a year with three perfect games.

("TWO!" - J. Joyce)

SIIIIIGH. Two.

Oh yeah! And the playoff no hitter. That won't happen again in Paul's lifetime.

The 2014 Blue Jays reacting to ANOTHER home run by Edwin Encarnacion:

Annnnnnd my edit, because they're killing everyone out there.

Is that black guy wearing yellow plastic vampire teeth?

They're the ones made out of wax that you get around Halloween.


THE
BLEAH, BLEAH
AARDVARK

Baseball voted on a new commissioner this evening to replace Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the guy that canceled the World Series and did nothing regarding rampant PED use and did everything possible to lineup a Yankees / Red Sox post-season every year.

The last two guys were a normal dude (Rob Manfred) and someone who was a president for the Boston Red Sox.

So with great pleasure I read that Blue Jays President Paul Beeston argued AGAINST THE GUY who isn't currently employed by the BOSTON RED SOX.

Beeston has been the most incompetent team president in baseball history and has actively been working against his own teams' best interests for years.

The fact that this dumb shit argued against Rob Manfred (who got the job, he's the new commish) leads me to believe that Manfred may be the first decent commissioner baseball has had since Bart Giamatti.

There's two incompetent cocksuckers running football and hockey, but we may finally have a 50/50 split in the four major sports.