Joe Posnanski of the Kansas City Star breaks down the flaws of the Morris for the Hall campaign, and also boggles at those who vote for Morris but not Blyleven:
Hmm, so you're telling me that Blyleven has 33 more wins, 32 more shutouts, 1,223 more strikeouts, 68 fewer walks, an ERA that more than a half run better, an ERA+ that's 13 points better, a better overall postseason record and five or six individual seasons that were better than Jack Morris' best season ... wow, can I have a few more minutes to think about this? Wait, Blyleven had a lot more losses too, so that, oh, he played for worse teams, yeah, that might have had something do with that, um, hold on, I need to sharpen my No. 2 pencil and think about this ...
Posnanski goes on to critique the "he was the best pitcher of the 80s" argument, in great detail...
Good stuff...check it out...