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« on: November 07, 2017, 05:17:39 PM »
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http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21331438/roy-halladay-40-dies-plane-crash-gulf-mexico

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Very sad news, and for me perhaps more so as an aviator than a baseball fan. Somehow I get the feeling he would have survived if he was flying a Cirrus, a modern plastic "plane for dummies" for people with more money than experience. The Icon A5 is a terribly-conceived and unsafe plane that should not be in the skies.
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2017, 06:02:29 PM »

So sad.  Loved watching him pitch, and seems like a great guy.  RIP!
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2017, 06:31:21 PM »

Grew up in the Philly suburbs and got to witness Doc pitch at the pinnacle of his career for the Phillies. Absolutely outstanding talent. I left class early and sobbed in the bathroom when I found out. This world can be too cruel for its own good sometimes.
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2017, 07:04:54 PM »

I think everyone teared up or more when they saw this today. Brought back flashes of teammate Cory Lidle. The world just never gets better. I had my own tweet about it, but Dick Nixon said it better: "My God, the people who run this thing do everything possible to kill what was once appealing about it."

That's four major tragedies in the last 2 years of Baseball. We lose so many of the greats so young. Flashes of Santo for the Hall of Fame ceremony.
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2017, 08:18:48 PM »

Tragically sad.
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2017, 09:42:09 PM »

RIP...I do hear that great players get very good sympathy votes for the Hall of Fame if they had several dominating years and their numbers don't quite get there, and Halladay fits that category.

Maybe this gets him in.
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2017, 11:52:53 PM »

One of my favorite baseball players I have ever seen play...Rest in peace, Roy!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2017, 12:00:54 AM »

RIP...I do hear that great players get very good sympathy votes for the Hall of Fame if they had several dominating years and their numbers don't quite get there, and Halladay fits that category.

Maybe this gets him in.

He threw a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same season, led the league in complete games 7 different times, won the Cy Young in both leagues, threw 20 shutouts, had 200 career wins, a career era of 3.38, 2117 strikeouts, a career WAR of 65.6, and was an 8-time all star. How the hell are those not HoF numbers?
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« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2017, 12:18:11 AM »

That was a sad tragedy.
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« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2017, 12:32:20 AM »

RIP...I do hear that great players get very good sympathy votes for the Hall of Fame if they had several dominating years and their numbers don't quite get there, and Halladay fits that category.

Maybe this gets him in.

He threw a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same season, led the league in complete games 7 different times, won the Cy Young in both leagues, threw 20 shutouts, had 200 career wins, a career era of 3.38, 2117 strikeouts, a career WAR of 65.6, and was an 8-time all star. How the hell are those not HoF numbers?

Muh 300 wins hot take
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« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2017, 10:55:27 AM »

RIP...I do hear that great players get very good sympathy votes for the Hall of Fame if they had several dominating years and their numbers don't quite get there, and Halladay fits that category.

Maybe this gets him in.

He threw a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same season, led the league in complete games 7 different times, won the Cy Young in both leagues, threw 20 shutouts, had 200 career wins, a career era of 3.38, 2117 strikeouts, a career WAR of 65.6, and was an 8-time all star. How the hell are those not HoF numbers?

Muh 300 wins hot take

Technically it's 250.
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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2017, 10:57:56 AM »

RIP
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2017, 11:42:38 AM »

RIP...I do hear that great players get very good sympathy votes for the Hall of Fame if they had several dominating years and their numbers don't quite get there, and Halladay fits that category.

Maybe this gets him in.

He threw a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same season, led the league in complete games 7 different times, won the Cy Young in both leagues, threw 20 shutouts, had 200 career wins, a career era of 3.38, 2117 strikeouts, a career WAR of 65.6, and was an 8-time all star. How the hell are those not HoF numbers?

Muh 300 wins hot take

Technically it's 250.

He had 2 bad seasons in Philadelphia and played on some really, really bad Blue Jay teams. He could've easily won 250 or 300 games if he pitched for, say, the Yankees or Red Sox instead of the Blue Jays.
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« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2017, 11:47:33 AM »

By all accounts, a good man and teammate and a great pitcher. The game lost a good one. RIP, Roy.
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