Which starting pitchers, currently in the majors or recently retired, are shoe-ins for induction into the baseball Hall of Fame?

It’s a debate myself and my friends had over a few beers last night that quickly got heated. Everyone has loyalty to their hometown teams. Being from Boston I lobbied hard for Curt Schilling while the Jersey crew was pushing for Andy Pettitte.

So to settle this thing once and for all, we decided to analyze the stats to give you a definitive list of starting pitchers who are of Hall of Fame caliber, listed from most deserving on top to least deserving.

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The Pedro Martinez cockfight video has been unveiled, and here it is:

Props to Gawker for tracking it down!

Over the last year, people have grown more and more in love with animals. They can’t stand seeing anything happen to one of the world’s lovely little creatures – that is until now.

We all saw the pictures (and I got to see the video!) of Pedro Martinez releasing a chicken (rooster…whatever) into a cockfight in the Dominican Republic. For a couple of hours, it was everywhere. The result? Even the most inside net hounds can’t track down the video, and everyone seems to be defending the Dominican right and legality to strap razor blades to the feet of 2 pissed off chickens and let them go at it.

WOW! Oh how times have changed. No PETA rally, no Chicken Lovers’ Coalition, no Al Sharpton, no calls for lethal injection – nada, nothing, zip.

…Huh…it makes me wonder, what if Pedro were a Yankee…

(Cue dream sequence) (more…)