#Roy Halladay

[jackhues]

baseball is (almost) back!

so here's a bunch of random stuff about the jays! (i'm presenting this to my friends tomorrow loll)

let's start with the jays theme song thingy (?) there is also a dance that i learned in school - you can catch a lot of the players doing it while they play the song. i believe in the 7th inning they play it and all the fans dance too!

time for another song break! basically, this is a parody song that someone made in 2015 and i remember singing this non-stop during middle school with my brother and everyone was obsessed with this song loll

also watch this - it STILL shows up on highlight reels, it was insane

marco estrada's comments about the dive ^

also... i feel like there's SO MUCH more lore and players that i haven't even talked about - like gurriel and teoscar were here for a while and they were amazing. there're so many players, so many stories, so many moments that i'm either forgetting or i don't have time to go so deeply into :(

but if you search up toronto blue jays on tumblr, you'll get a bunch of clips and gifs and moments to watch

[jarojagr]

did this lil doodle of roy halladay ❤️

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art!

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[jamiethenerd]

6 years has gone by so fast. RIP Roy Halladay.

[prayforleonardo]

On this day ten years ago

[greatgiverparadise]

[blueeyedgrlwrites]

It’s Beas nice ask day!

So my question for you: What is your craziest “truth is stranger than fiction” moment you have experienced in real life

HI BEAS!!! I love that you're doing this and you can never have too many nice asks.

Okay, so I have a couple.

I went to high school with two guys from The Fray, Dave and Ben. In my junior year, I sat next to Ben in English class and we absolutely terrorized our teacher. She'd been hired last minute to replace a teacher that was going to be on maternity leave the whole semester. I had no idea he was a musician at all, let alone that he was in a band. The first time I became aware of The Fray I just pointed to their album cover and was like, "OMG I HAD ENGLISH CLASS WITH HIM"

The second one was way back in the mid-90s when I was still a wee grade school kid. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade? Anyway, one of the pitchers for the high school varsity baseball team came to do something with us in our gym class. We were outside near the where we had a baseball diamond and this pitcher took a baseball and threw it from the outfield right over the center of home plate and broke the wooden backstop. That pitcher ended up being Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies legend Roy Halladay.

[brucebocchi]

top five MLB baseball players (not necessarily overall, just your personal favorites)

cubs all time: ernie banks, ryne sandberg, greg maddux, carlos zambrano, anthony rizzo

non-cubs all time: ichiro suzuki, roy halladay, jayson werth, nolan ryan, pedro martinez

non-cubs current: shohei ohtani, justin verlander (also applies to all time tbh), max scherzer, kyle schwarber (☹️), vlad guerrero jr

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.14

Beer Birthdays

Dan Carey (1960)

John Martin (1960)

Mark Cabrera (1964)

Bryan Simpson (1967)

Brian Stechschulte (1977)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sidney Bechet; jazz saxophonist (1897)

Bobby Darin; singer (1936)

Thomas Gainsborough; English artist (1727)

George Lucas; film director (1944)

Robert Zemeckis; film director (1951)

Famous Birthdays

Archie Alexander; African-American mathematician (1888)

Sophie Anderton; model, actor (1977)

Francesca Annis; English actress (1945)

Diane Arbus; photographer (1923)

Pierre Victor Auger; French physicist (1899)

Jay Beckenstein; jazz saxophonist (1951)

Antonio Berni; Argentinian artist (1905)

Kate Blanchett; actor (1969)

Hal Borland; journalist (1900)

Jack Bruce; rock bassist (1943)

David Byrne; rock musician (1952)

Al Ciner; pop-rock guitarist (1947)

Anne Clark; English singer-songwriter and poet (1960)

Tom Cochrane; Canadian singer-songwriter (1953)

Eoin Colfer; Irish author (1965)

Earle Combs; baseball player (1899)

Sophia Coppola; film director (1971)

Miranda Cosgrove; actor, singer (1993)

Richard Deacon; actor (1922)

C.C. DeVille; rock guitarist (1962)

Billie Dove; actress (1903)

William Emerson; English mathematician (1701)

Richard Estes; artist (1932)

Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit; German inventor (1686)

Alfredo Gobbi; Argentine tango musicians and composer (1912)

Robert Greene; author (1959)

Rob Gronkowski; football player (1989)

Roy Halladay; Toronto Blue Jays/Philadelphia Phillies P (1977)

Heloise; helpful hints columnist (1919)

Steve Hogarth; English singer-songwriter (1956)

Peder Horrebow; Danish astronomer (1679)

Danny Huston; Italian-American actor (1962)

Mike Inez; American rock bassist (1966)

Dub Jones; R&B bass singer (1928)

Alexander Kaufmann; German poet (1817)

Otto Klemperer; orchestra conductor (1885)

Nicholas Kurti; coined term “molecular gastronomy” (1908)

Rudolf Lipschitz; German mathematician (1832)

Norman Luboff; choir director (1917)

Skip Martin; bandleader, composer (1916)

Clay Matthews III; Green Bay Packers football player (1986)

Henry McGee; English actor (1929)

Wim Mertens; Belgian composer (1952)

Tony Pérez; Cuban-American baseball player (1942)

Al Porcino; jazz trumpeter (1925)

Walter Rehberg; Swiss pianist and composer (1900)

Tim Roth; actor (1961)

Amber Tamblyn; actor (1983)

Thomas Wedgwood; English photographer (1771)

Mark Zuckerberg; Facebook founder (1984)

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i really wanna share a story with you all about blue jays baseball in the midst of all this. so when we first moved to canada i found it really hard to relate to other kids for more than the obvious. i came into it thinking sports would be such an easy way to connect w ppl because they’re so universal, but no one at my school played soccer which was the only thing i was ever exposed to. they were all so into hockey and baseball and i didn’t have the first clue about either of those things. so i couldn’t play with them at lunch or at recess or anything.

through an insanely random encounter, my mother ended up becoming friends with someone who, at the time, worked in the jays organization. she mentioned that i wanted to learn about baseball and he offered to bring us out to a game. we got seats right behind home plate. it was a yankees - jays game, roy halladay pitched deep into the game, and the jays scored 14 runs. after the game, to my surprise, the man had arranged for us to see the facilities. he was showing us around everywhere from the broadcast booths to the offices to the clubhouse and along our way we ran into roy halladay. my english was very bad at the time but he was so patient with me. he signed this souvenir bat i got and let me try on one of his gloves.

it left such an insane impact on me and it gave me such a feeling of belonging. i think the jays were the first thing i ever really felt happy about in canada. so i leaned english to talk to my classmates about that game. and through talking about baseball i leaned more words and i learned about hockey and the winter and what peoples favourite foods were. and eventually i grew up, and i got comfortable, and i understood where i was and what i was surrounded by. but all of that started because of one kind gesture.

the jays acclimatized me to canada. that impact is something immeasurable.

[baseballsisco]

Happy Friday everyone. Here is my MLB Immaculate Grid number 536 for Thursday September 19.

The 200K line has some solid starters. While Jon Lester is better known for his time with the Red Sox, he put in some seasons with the Chicago Cubs.

Mike Mussina had a highly successful 20 year career with the Orioles and Yankees. He put up double digit wins in 19 of his 20 seasons capping off year 20 with his only 20-win season. At 2,813Ks, one more season would have probably gotten him to 3,000. And he had 57 complete games with 23 shutouts.

The late great Roy Halladay was a 2x Cy Young winner, one in each league. He was in the top five of Cy Young voting seven times in 16 years, an 8x All Star and had 67 CG with 20 shutouts.

For the 200 wins, Tim Hudson was part of the heralded trio of Oakland A's starters with Mark Mulder and Barry Zito during the late 1990s and early 2000's. Out of the three, I believe Hudson to be the most successful. He had double digits win seasons 13 out of his 17 years in the league, was a 4x All Star and 4x top five voter in the Cy Young award race. Hudson has 26 CG with 13 shutouts.

That's all for now folks (I'm my Mel Allen voice) on to grid number 537.

[thesilenceoftheassassin]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 2012 Topps Mound Dominance Red Sox Phillies Tigers Mets Orioles Indians Baseball.

[oreilletendue]

Les zeugmes du dimanche matin de Tyler Kepner

«Tom Ricketts owns the Cubs, so he got the curse-breaking curveball. [Mike] Montgomery got a ring, a memory, and the certainty that his job is the best there is» (p. 73). «He [Roy Halladay] left behind a wife, two sons, and a legacy as a dedicated cratfsman who strove constantly to improve» (p. 256). «The cutter lends itself to such excitement. It is meant to be thrown aggressively, and to act…

[playdeepcf]

Roy Halladay’s phenomenal first season in Philadelphia included a 2.44 ERA, the most innings in baseball and a perfect game. Doc was named the National League #CyYoung Award winner on November 16, 2010.

#MLB #Phillies #HoF 2019

#RIP 🍁⚾️🍂

[prayforleonardo]

Roy Halladay (2013)