Good to see Jack Morris talking on ESPN...Bigger the game ,better the pitcher he was.

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I believe he will get in the HOF some day...Morris had some interesting thoughts on pitchers today ...Did anyone catch it?

He is a class act.

:suomi: I would take my chances with Morris, with one game on the line.
 
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being from the area, all ive ever heard is that he was an Ahole. That game 7 in 91 for the twins was awesome....didnt he pitch like 9 or 10 scoreless innings?
 

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being from the area, all ive ever heard is that he was an Ahole. That game 7 in 91 for the twins was awesome....didnt he pitch like 9 or 10 scoreless innings?

yes he did...

I don't know if I ever heard Morris talk much before this piece on ESPN, it was good to see him and hear his thoughts.
 

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Jack was a hick and pretty much just wanted to be left alone when he played. Not a very dynamic personality which alot of fans mistakenly took him as being an arrogant asshole.

I was pissed as hell when he left Detroit and even more pissed whaen he kept winning playoff games with other teams. Never one of my favorites but we owe a world Series title to the guy
 

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Pitched like crap in the playoffs for Toronto but he was the Jays first 20 game winner and the first top level free agent to ever come to Toronto.
 

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Jack was a hick and pretty much just wanted to be left alone when he played. Not a very dynamic personality which alot of fans mistakenly took him as being an arrogant asshole.

That was always the impression I had but, like I said, I don't ever recall hearing him speak....He seemed very well spoken and humble in the ESPN piece.

And like others have mentioned he was the kind of guy you just wanted to be pitching for you...He also spoke about his HOF possibilities and mentioned how he felt Sutter was being screwed "12 years not good enough, than finally on #13 he is, what's the difference" ...I think Jack may sneak in at some point..I would put him right on the borderline...His ERA was always kind of high but he did win 254 games... I am not sure he really should be in...As far as big games go though, he is right there.
 

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http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/incites/127917152.html
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Hall of Fame politics and Jack Morris
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Jack Morris had the most wins of any pitchers in the 80s but is not a Hall of Fame member. (Bill Chan/AP)

The opposite-field home run Jim Thome stroked to left on Monday night re-ignited what seems to be every baseball fan’s passion — a debate about who belongs in the Hall of Fame.
To me, Thome is indisputable — one of eight men to hit 600 homers and the second fastest to the milestone (in terms of at bats). Obviously, many of you disagree.
I do agree completely about a lot of the enshrined Hall of Famers being marginal at best. But that’s what happens when you have a political process. It's an election, after all.
A number of Hall members got in via personal lobbying. When Ted Williams chaired the Veterans Committee in the 1980s, the first thing he did was get in his old Red Sox roommate, Bobby Doerr.
Then Stan Musial got in his old roommate, Red Schoendienst. Then Yogi Berra and Bill White got in Scooter Rizzuto, Yogi’s old Yankee running mate. (White, briefly a Phillie in the 1960s, was a long-time Yankees’ broadcaster).
Another batch of Famers got in the Hall because of their long service as broadcasters — Hank Kiner first and foremost. Had the one-dimensional slugger broadcast the Pirates for decades, instead of the Mets, having led the NL in homers for seven straight years while in Pittsburgh would have meant nothing. As it was, Kiner got in only in the final year of his 20-year eligibility period.
Other former players who were aided by their post-playing years in the broadcasting business were Don Drysdale (who actually belongs), and Rich Ashburn, who would never have made it without his decades of bonding with Phillies fans via the airwaves.
Then there’s the New York connection. Pee Wee Reese is one who got in almost solely because he played in New York. Kiner is in because he broadcast in New York. Bill Mazeroski is in because he hit the most famous homer in baseball history against New York.
And so it goes. There are dozens such stories.
Finally, here’s a vote for the eligible guy who most deserves to get in — Jack Morris. The righthander rung up the most wins in the decade of the 80s and was the MVP of Detroit’s 1984 World Series victory. He was dominant in Minnesota’s World Championship in 1991 and finished his career with 254 wins, including a 21-6 season for Toronto in 1992, when he was 37.
As Ashburn’s fans asked, in an immortal slogan that helped propell Whitey's election, “Why the Hall not?”
Contact Don McKee at dmckee@phillynews.com



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I believe he was the one who said, while addressing a female reporter, "I don't talk to women when I'm naked unless I'm on top of them or they're on top of me." A definite HOF quote.
 

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JM very very good pitcher but not HOF
 

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You could give Jack the ball in a key game; he's pitch his ass off for you; even when he didn't have his top stuff; he'd stay in there and just keep tryin'..>>

a real pro; and deserving of HOF; althoughI ad mit it is debatable, but>>

I would have in on my team, anyday; he would go out there and pitch..some really don't.

just my opinion..

The Tigahs..
 

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p.s.; he could wheel and deal..

as ernie Harwell woulda said..>>

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http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2013/04/18/pf-20753551.html

Former Blue Jays pitcher Jack Morris should be in Hall of Fame
By BOB ELLIOTT, QMI Agency




Former pitching great Jack Morris racked up 254 career wins with an ERA of 3.90. But Tigers executive and Hall of Famer Al Kaline says he deserves to be enshrined at Cooperstown. (Reuters)
DETROIT - Al Kaline knows pitching.


The Hall of Famer had to in order to collect 3,007 hits for the Detroit Tigers.


And he also knows something else: Jack Morris deserves a plaque in Cooperstown similar to the one Kaline has.


“I don’t know why it has taken so long, I don’t understand,” said Kaline, a special assistant to Tigers president Dave Dombrowski.


Kaline played 21 years for the Tigers and was in the TV booth with George Kell, working Detroit games for 27 more seasons.


Morris has been on the ballot for 14 years and this is his final year of eligibility. He gathered 66.7% from voting members of the Baseball Writers of America Association, 48 votes light of the required 75% in 2012. In January, he had 67.7%, 42 votes shy.


“We were so hopeful last election,” Kaline said.


Now in his 15th and final year of eligibility, Morris is joined by newcomers Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Mike Mussina, Jeff Kent and Frank Thomas.
 

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