“because in the past 30 years, the only starting pitcher acquired midseason to win a World Series game was St. Louis’ Jeff Weaver in 2006,”

Joe Blanton was aquired midseason by the phillies last year and won a world series game.

D’oh!  Good catch George.  That’s what I get for going off of a 2008 article and not updating.

Given that Hall of Fame arguments so typically devolve into the sort of weirdness that hasn’t been seen since the Playboy Jazz All-Stars (where you’d see, say, Miles Davis alongside Harry James) why [spoiler alert for the Shyster: yet another J.P.Donleavy quote], “For the honey-drenched mercy of Christ,” are we talking about this?

If this sort of energy went into hateful screeds about whether Steven Tyler was better looking than Michael Jackson, everyone involved would be (quite rightly) embarassed.

You know, ashamed the next morning in the cold light of day, like Lon Chaney in the werewolf movies.

Just a thought.