Curt Schilling deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Great record, ..

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[SMGFan]

Curt Schilling deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Great record, especially when under pressure and when it mattered most. Do what everyone in Baseball knows is right! @marklevinshow

[SMGFan]

HOF announcement is tomorrow. Trump's tweet has no influence in this election.

[skinndogNN]

He is a Conservative and most of the voters are media reporters.

He has very little chance to get in. At least right now.

[jjotto]

Yep.

Ballots were in before December 31, and most weeks before that.

There’s a case for Schilling being in the top ten of pitchers in the last 50 years, but that might not be enough.

And today’s PC cuck HOF voters wouldn’t seem inclined to be generous to him.

[dfwgator]

Maybe it’s time to start a campaign to boycott going to Cooperstown until Schilling is in. I figure most visitors to Cooperstown are conservatives, so it just might work.

[Tallguy]

Benchmark for starting pitchers is 300 career wins. In today’s game that total is difficult-to-impossible to reach. So does Schilling get in? Big time playoff pitcher and a #1 or #2 on his staff for his entire career. I vote ‘yes’.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Schilling was on with Mark Levin last night and this is how Levin opened the show - talking about Curt's record and then asking why he thinks he hasn't made the HOF yet - Schilling attributed much of it to his conservative political views - Curt Schilling and Mark Levin talk.....

[americas.best.days...]

My beloved President could garner much more everyman support if he would speak out for his supporters that endure political violence, from the campaign through this past weekend.

Curt Schilling will be alright.

[Vermont Lt]

He should know if HE says it’s good, 80% of the media will do the opposite.

[FreeReign]

Benchmark for starting pitchers is 300 career wins. In today’s game that total is difficult-to-impossible to reach. So does Schilling get in? Big time playoff pitcher and a #1 or #2 on his staff for his entire career. I vote ‘yes’.

Schilling also had a WAR over 80. Yes he should be in.

[dfwgator]

Isn’t the bloody sock already in Cooperstown?

[Alberta's Child]

The benchmarks for starting pitchers are very likely to change in the near future, but even with a reduced standard for pitchers I don’t see how a really strong case can be made for Curt Schilling 216 wins in a career that spanned 20 seasons isn’t quite up to HOF standards for me — especially when you consider that he never won a Cy Young Award as the top pitcher in the league.

[taildragger]

I so dislike our culture and the politicalization if everything, we are now Russia. I am not watching the stupid bowl and now baseball can go blank themselves. This is a good man, I may never attend a Tiger’s game again, blank them all....

[FreeReign]

Yup his sock is there but he is not.

[equaviator]

Denny McLain- Detroit Tigers regular season record between 1965 and 1969:

'65- W16 L6

'66- W29 L14

'67- W17 L16

'68- W31 L5

'69- W24 L9 (25 years old)

5-year total: W108 L54

Not too shabby for a guy his age.

Add a Cy Young and World Series (team) in '68...

No way could McLain make into the MLB HOF before Schilling will...I'm for both Schilling and McLain. Denny McLain is probably the last MLB pitcher to ever win 30 or more games in a regular season. That's big, baseball fans...It will never happen again...Never, and look at those five years between '65 and '69...108 wins against 54 losses. AMAZING!

[Freestate316]

I agree. I’m a lifelong Phillies fan, but Schilling is not a Hall of Famer. Compare him to Phillie great Steve Carlton. Carlton had 111 more career wins, 4 Cy Young awards, and was the dominant lefthander of his generation. He won 27 games on a 1972 Phillies team that won 59 as a team. The Hall of Fame is for the grwats-Ruth, Cobb, Aaron, Williams, Schmidt, Jeter, Mays, Griffey, Seaver, and players of that caliber.

[jjotto]

Jack Morris is in the HOF. Did he deserve it?

[equaviator]

CORRECTION!...Denny McLain went 31-6 in '68...

[Freestate316]

Jack Morris was a real good pitcher. Is he a Carlton, Seaver, Maddux or Randy Johnson? No. Neither is Schilling.

[Alberta's Child]

Good post. I'm usually the first to point out that it's very hard to compare players from one era to the next. There may come a time when a 200-win pitcher is more dominant over his career than a 300-win pitcher from 30+ years ago.

The problem with Schilling is that he doesn't stand out as a truly dominant pitcher even among others of his generation. I put him in that "almost HOF" category with guys like Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte.

[Hot Tabasco]

Denny McLain is probably the last MLB pitcher to ever win 30 or more games in a regular season.

And the only MLB player to be sentenced to prison for racketeering, extortion and drug dealing.......

McClain is a major POS, just ask the employees of Peet Packing who McCain and his partner Roger Smigiel purchased back in 1995 and subsequently closed it down. They were charged with looting the company's pension fund of $3 million.

Following his release from prison, he was in a work release program at a 7-11 not far from me in Sterling Heights.

Denny McClain and MLB should never be mentioned in the same sentence...........