The Big Hurt Frank Thomas is retiring today.  He will be remembered as a pretty good slugger on some bad White Sox teams, then as an injured bitching and moaning old veteran on the White Sox World Series team who plopped around to random places after.

Most of all though, I will remember him as being BANNED FROM CANADIAN TELEVISION.

In his short Toronto tenure, he made this short Blue Jays spot which Canadian television censors forced to be edited down before being shown on Canadian television.  They were reacting I’m sure to shrill Canadian cries of “Violence, eh!” and “Child Abuse, eh!” and “Big Scary Black Man, eh!”

The video has been removed from youTube by the selfish (or censor-happy) bastards at MLB, but I found another version for you to enjoy and be REALLY, REALLY SHOCKED by: