Well done!!
Posted on 03/23/2009 12:17:37 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper
Curt Schilling retired from baseball today, ending a career in which he won World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox [team stats] and Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the game’s most dominant pitchers and grittiest competitors.
The 42-year-old right-hander said on his blog he’s leaving after 23 years with "zero regrets." Schilling missed all of last season with a shoulder injury after signing a one-year, $8 million contract.
"The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime," he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Well done!!
One of the best pitchers in the game, and one of the coolest guys to ever play the game as well. I’m happy for him that he got his injury AFTER signing the $8mil deal and not before. I just hope congress doesn’t pass a law confiscating it; they can do that now, you know.
Godspeed, good man.
SnakeDoc
What hat does he wear in The Hall?
DAMN! I love that picture!
I do too.
Red Sox!
Just hang the bloody sock in the hall. Says it all.
What hat does he wear in The Hall?
14 days until the season starts!
You could make a case for the Phillies or the Red Sox. He spent the most time with the Phillies and won the most games. But he won those two World Series with the Red Sox.
The dramatic bloody sock puts the Red Sox ahead by the slightest margin. But if he goes in with the Phillies, that’s reasonable.
The Diamondbacks, Orioles, and Astros do not have convincing cases.
Thanks Curt.
Good luck in the future.
Just hang the bloody sock in the hall. Says it all.
216 win isn’t going to get him in the Hall.
I think he will go anyway, if just because he played for the Red Sox. Even Jim Rice made it into the hall. If Rice would have played for anyone other than Yankees or Red Sox, nobody would have ever thought he belonged. Just my humble opinion.
3116 strikeouts puts him in decent company (only 16 folks have over 3K). 11-2 post-season record, including 4-1 (2.06 ERA) in 4 World Series.
But there have been no recent pitchers with less than 300 wins selected to the hall (though there are plenty of ones with less than 216).
Ping
He also owns the best career strikeout-to-walk ratio of any pitcher in the modern era (1900-present).
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