Curt Schilling got screwed

Someone should create a fans Hall of Fame.

Schilling retired with the greatest strikeout-to-walk rate since the mound distance was set in the 19th century. He once struck out more than 300 batters with fewer walks (33) than starts (35). He is one of only four pitchers to strike out 300 batters in a season three times since 1900. The others are Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax.

frick the voters for the HOF.

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Listening to the radio they sid it was due to steroids

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Not Schilling.

He's being left out because he's an a-hole and a mouthy conservative.

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Not Schilling.

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OK thanks

3.46 era, no Cy Youngs, 216 wins doesn't really scream Hall of Fame.

Of the 5 retire players with numbers most similar to him, Kevin Brown, Bob Welch, Tim Hudson, Orel Hershiser, Freddie Fitzsimmons, none are in the Hall.

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Someone should create a fans Hall of Fame.

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Do it. Create a Go Fund Me account. It's start small but may catch on.

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I think the mouthy conservative is little if anything to do with it. He’s always been a jerk to writers and that has hurt him. Hell, he got close last year and got pissed and said to take his name off the ballot and he would wait for the Modern Players Committee to decide as he respects their opinion. Basically, he pissed the writers off. You can argue that’s dumb or whatever but angry jerks have a hard time getting in if they aren’t all time greats. Schilling is not that.

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If Schilling played the happy talk game, didn't express conservative opinions and therefore remained on ESPN's Baseball Tonight, perhaps shed a tear over George Floyd's death, his being a jerk would mean little and he'd have been voted in.

If I'm not mistaken, his mouthing off about having his name removed from the ballot was after he had been sunk by his politics, and in fact was in response to that.

Think how little credibility the baseball HOF has when every eligible player with 3000 (except Palmiero) or more hits is in, but one of the two players with more than 4000 hits (and, in fact, has the most), isn't even eligible.

(ETA: And A Rod is about to go in this year, Beltre likely in 2024 and Suzuki the year after. Pujols is still playing and will go first ballot when eligible, so that will leave only Charlie Hustle and Palmiero out of the HOF with greater than 3k hits. I do suspect the veterans committee will put Palmiero - and Bonds - in at some point.)

Not as glaringly dumb as the Rock Hall of Fame, but what is?

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a-hole

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The world is full of them and I assure you the HOF has several.

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mouthy conservative.

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The horror.

Pussified liberals doing pussified things not electing him.

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The horror.

Pussified liberals doing pussified things not electing him.

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That's been a bit of an eye opener for me over the last five years or so ... how ridiculously bent/liberal sports media is. I knew their employers were liberal, but not the reporters/commentators themselves.