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HALL OF FAME EXCLUDES CURT SCHILLING DUE TO HIS POLITICS
Powerline ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Paul Mirengoff

Posted on 01/26/2022 8:18:07 PM PST by Rummyfan

Yesterday, a group of sportswriters voted David Ortiz into the Hall of Fame. They did this even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, around the time he transformed himself from a below average hitter to a star.

In other Hall of Fame news, Curt Schilling fell well short of the number of votes required for admission because woke sportswriters with ballots don’t like his politics. Here is what I wrote on the subject when Schilling — or rather the voters — fell short last year.

Schilling should view his exclusion as a badge of honor, and there is reason to believe he might. After last year’s vote, he asked that his name be withdrawn from this year’s ballot — the last one he is eligible to appear on.

Baseball’s Hall of Fame has become a joke. It’s a waste of time to discuss it.

However, this is a good time to celebrate Curt Schilling’s accomplishments. His career WAR (wins above replacement player) is 80.5. That’s just behind Bob Gibson and just ahead of Tom Glavine and Carl Hubbell. All three are generally considered upper tier Hall of Famers.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society; Sports
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Schilling is definitely Hall-of-Fame worthy.
1 posted on 01/26/2022 8:18:07 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Let’s Go MLB!....


2 posted on 01/26/2022 8:29:15 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

We are truly living in an Orwellian world when any violation of groupthink negates an entire sports career.


3 posted on 01/26/2022 8:30:01 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: Rummyfan

FJB plus FMLB!


4 posted on 01/26/2022 8:38:52 PM PST by dainbramaged (Use it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without.)
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To: Rummyfan

They are going the way the Nobel Prize went which no longer has the respect it once had since awarding it to President Obama for no reason other than being black.


5 posted on 01/26/2022 8:46:28 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Rummyfan

What a bunch of petty little bastards leftists are.


6 posted on 01/26/2022 9:13:26 PM PST by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: Rummyfan

If he was a human “of color”, he’d be in already. Same with Roger Clemens. They aren’t in the HOF because they are WHITE.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 9:14:46 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Rummyfan

So why did Ortiz get in but not Bonds and Clemens? That’s not being consistent.


8 posted on 01/26/2022 9:16:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Bonds didn’t get in.


9 posted on 01/26/2022 9:16:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Right you are.


10 posted on 01/26/2022 9:18:30 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: TonyM

Yes, and BHO accepted as his due.


11 posted on 01/26/2022 9:19:01 PM PST by robowombat (Orth)
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To: Rummyfan

Communists are not big on free speech.


12 posted on 01/26/2022 9:42:10 PM PST by bray (The Vax is fake)
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To: Rummyfan

If you’re an American, especially a Caucasian American, your days of playing for a professional plantation team are numbered. Caucasians can only be spectators now.


13 posted on 01/26/2022 10:20:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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The sports and entertainment plantation...

I never really understood the entertainment value of sports. Probably because in my mind sports is a competition whereas entertainment is not, there are competative aspects in entertainment such as “the best” this, or “the most glamorous” that...

Sports on the other hand seeks to annihilate from the beinging of the event until the event is over. How is that considered entertainment?


14 posted on 01/27/2022 1:21:40 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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MAIN CONTACT INFORMATION
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
25 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Phone: (607) 547-7200
Toll-free: (888) HALL-OF-FAME or (888) 425-5633
Fax: (607) 547-0398
Email: info@baseballhall.org

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME EXCLUDES CURT SCHILLING DUE TO HIS POLITICS but voted in David Ortiz to the Hall of Fame......even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.......coincided around the time he was a below average hitter.

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Powerline ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Paul Mirengoff
Posted on 1/26/2022, 11:18:07 PM by Rummyfan


15 posted on 01/27/2022 2:47:00 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; null and void; aragorn; ..

MAIN CONTACT INFORMATION
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
25 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Phone: (607) 547-7200
Toll-free: (888) HALL-OF-FAME or (888) 425-5633
Fax: (607) 547-0398
Email: info@baseballhall.org

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME EXCLUDES CURT SCHILLING DUE TO HIS POLITICS but voted in David Ortiz to the Hall of Fame......even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.......coincided around the time he was a below average hitter.

SOURCE
Powerline ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Paul Mirengoff
Posted on 1/26/2022, 11:18:07 PM by Rummyfan


16 posted on 01/27/2022 2:52:06 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Clutch Martin

I lost all interest in “sports” once the “showboats” took over. Supposedly grown individuals acting like a bunch of spoiled little brats.


17 posted on 01/27/2022 3:27:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Bullish

He asked to be excluded.


18 posted on 01/27/2022 3:39:51 AM PST by Oystir
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sorry, Roger and Barry Bonds both did not get in because they were known juicers.
Shilling belongs in, steroid users do not.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 3:57:52 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Clutch Martin

The entertainment value of sports is that all the bars and restaurants can have something common on in the background. Its a social leveler.


20 posted on 01/27/2022 9:30:58 AM PST by glorgau
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