re jack morris in article apr newshub ariel yorku ca cs ariel yorku ca shawn luddington writes in article apr cs cornell edu tedward cs cornell edu edward ted fischer writes in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu gspira nyx cs du edu greg spira writes howard wong mindlink bc ca howard wong writes has jack lost a bit of his edge what is the worst start jack morris has had uh jack lost his edge about years ago and has had only one above average year in the last again goes to prove that it is better to be good than lucky you can count on good tomorrow lucky seems to be prone to bad starts and a bad finish last year yes i am enjoying every last run he gives up who was it who said morris was a better signing than viola hey valentine i don t see boston with any world series rings on their fingers oooooo cheap shot damn morris now has three and probably the hall of fame in his future who cares he had two of them before he came to toronto and if the jays had signed viola instead of morris it would have been frank who won and got the ring and he would be on his way to this year too therefore i would have to say toronto easily made the best signing your logic is curious and spurious there is no reason to believe that viola wouldn t have won as many games had he signed with toronto when you compare their stupid w l records be sure to compare their team s offensive averages too now looking at anything like the morris viola sweepstakes a year later is basically hindsight but there were plenty of reasons why it should have been apparent that viola was the better pitcher based on previous recent years and also based on age frank is almost years younger how many knew that people got caught up in the world series and then on morris wins last year wins are the stupidest most misleading statistic in baseball far worse than rbi or r that he won just means that the jays got him a lot of runs the only really valid retort to valentine is weren t the red sox trying to get morris too oh sure they said viola was their first choice afterwards but what should we have expected they would say and don t tell me boston will win this year they won t even be in the top in the division more like th if this is true it won t be for lack of contribution by viola so who cares charles
