Roy Halladay on TSN 1050

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halladays interview reminded me of ra dickey. not nearly as well spoken or poetic but very candid without sounding like a huge douche. although him saying he wouldnt pitch out of the bullpen was a littttttttle hypocritical if you ask me. youre gonna support unwritten "respect-for-the-game" rules like no bat flips but if a manager asks you to pitch out the pen to help the team win at all costs, it would take you some coaxing? youre telling one guy that he needs to check his ego at the door while essentially saying it would be hard for you to do the same? im not trying to indict halladay necessarily, im more trying to bring up the fact that the root of these unwritten rules is actually a lot of horse ****.

Halladay pitched out of the bullpen when asked for the Jays/Gibbons actually. Did it in May 2008 and did it very well in a close win.

Obviously he wouldn't like losing a start in the playoffs, but it would never happen to him because he's Roy **** Halladay. Hell, he'd have come out of the pen to save them from elimination and still have started game 5.

what was the scenario there though? was he coming back from injury or something?

[Randle McMurphy]

halladays interview reminded me of ra dickey. not nearly as well spoken or poetic but very candid without sounding like a huge douche. although him saying he wouldnt pitch out of the bullpen was a littttttttle hypocritical if you ask me. youre gonna support unwritten "respect-for-the-game" rules like no bat flips but if a manager asks you to pitch out the pen to help the team win at all costs, it would take you some coaxing? youre telling one guy that he needs to check his ego at the door while essentially saying it would be hard for you to do the same? im not trying to indict halladay necessarily, im more trying to bring up the fact that the root of these unwritten rules is actually a lot of horse ****.

Halladay pitched out of the bullpen when asked for the Jays/Gibbons actually. Did it in May 2008 and did it very well in a close win.

Obviously he wouldn't like losing a start in the playoffs, but it would never happen to him because he's Roy **** Halladay. Hell, he'd have come out of the pen to save them from elimination and still have started game 5.

what was the scenario there though? was he coming back from injury or something?

Rain delay led the starter Marcum to only throwing one inning.

The Jays' eventual 6-5 victory, the club's sixth during a tough 10-game road trip, sent those fans home grumbling to themselves.
The weather breaks split the action between Toronto and Philadelphia into three acts, the sports equivalent of theatre. Fittingly, the final act started with a big surprise.

As the tarp came off the field at Citizens Bank Park, Roy Halladay stood up in the bullpen and started tossing. Three days after his last start, the staff ace was being called on to hold a tenuous two-run lead.

"I walked by (Halladay) at one point and he pointed down at his cleats," manager John Gibbons explained. "I said, `I ain't pinch-runnin' you. I'll tell you that right now.' Then he pointed out at the bullpen. That's the kinda guy he is."

The thought dawned on Halladay during a two-hour rain delay with the Phillies leading 2-0. Starter Shaun Marcum was shut down, leaving the weary bullpen dangerously thin for the remaining eight innings. "Just do the math," Halladay said. "I said I'd be ready.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2008/05/19/halladay_gives_blue_jays_a_huge_lift.html

[Scott Hall]

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