Roy Halladay Calls Himself "A Horse's Ass"

[Giantmetfan07]

 
Roy Halladay isn’t sugar-coating his ugly outing last night. Here’s what he had to say postgame:
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“Some days you’re a horse, and some days you’re a horse’s ass, and I’ve been a horse’s ass for a little while.”

But Doc wasn’t just being flip. As Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com reports, he was pretty emotional after last night’s game, and at one point almost seemed like he was going to well up.

This is absolutely brutal. Halladay at his best is a machine. To see him struggle with the pitching and to see just how much it’s affecting him is one of the harder things to watch over the past couple of seasons.  It doesn’t help that, in some ways, he’s in denial too. Salisbury reports that Halladay believes his problems to be “95 percent mental” and that he’s just trying too hard or pressing. Which, with all due respect to Halladay, is the secondary thing here. His fastball has lost life and he can’t throw it by anyone, which is likely flummoxing him. This seems like a shoulder problem first, a brain problem second.

Here’s hoping he rights the ship. If he can’t in the short term it’s super problematic because his upcoming schedule is, on the whole, rather pitcher-friendly.

 

[cruzg24]

He is past his prime. The downward spiral starts now. He has a great career, but he is just not the same as he used to be. I think he can be serviceable, but not amazing.