Is Schilling a Hall of Famer?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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No.

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The self promoter hall of fame? Of course.

Other than not liking him.. why not? 216 wins in this era. 3000+ strikeouts. 10-2 (I think..) in the postseason with a lower than 2.50 ERA.

(currently not sure which side of the fence I stand on this issue. I tend to think he belongs in the hall of really good for a while..)

Kevin Brown has as good, if not better, stats. Less Ks but better ERA.

He doesn't scream HOFer to me either.

Schilling post-season success is nice but I think a starter should have been the best pitcher in his league at least 1 time. 0 Cy Young awards. He was good for while and very good/excellent for about 3 years.

I demand more long-term excellence and I demand them not to be the poster child for ESPN. He's borderline and he'll probably get in but I hate the media coverage.

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He should get in, but only if he doesn't give a speech. That'll be the deal.

Im one of the lesser qualified critics here because baseball is admittedly my third favorite sport. I would consider him a HOF'er, but anyone who has followed my posts for each sport knows I put alot of weight into postseason performance. Regular season I dont even know if Curt gets on the ballot, postseason he is a concensus first ballot HOFer. So if I had a vote, I would vote him in.

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Yes

I think he will eventually get in because of his postseason dominance. When he was in his prime there was no one I would have rather had on the mound for a big game in the post-season.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Second that and make a motion that he doesn't get to attend, OR ESPN can show nothing on him for the entire induction weekend.

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Fuck no! If Blyleven ain't in, Lights ain't in.

Bert Blyleven

287 Wins
3.31 ERA
3,701 K's
5-1 2.47 ERA in postseason


Curt 'Lights' Schilling

216 Wins
3.46 ERA
3,116 K's
11-2 2.23 ERA in postseaon

You've just made a good argument for why Blyleven should be in.

Hater in the house!!!!! Drinkin' that Hatorade!!! Boo-Yah!

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No, no, no, fucking no. The only way this cocksucker should get in is to pay, just like the rest of us.

No pitcher, without 300 wins, should get in until Bert Blyleven is in, very simple. Clemens does not count, he was a juiced up douchebag.
I find it hard to believe anyone would think that Shilling would even deserve a sniff of the HOF, the bloody socked douchebag.

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No, Bert's prime was before free agency. It was not his fault he was on lousy teams. He was a better pitcher than Schilling, plain and simple.
Schilling is also on my list of "reasonable suspects". He does not belong in the hall of fame. You cannot convince me otherwise.

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My first reaction is no.
He's behind Burt & Jack Morris and in the group with David Cone, David Wells, Mike Mussina, & Kevin Brown.

Out of that bunch Moose has the best shot at it if he pitches another 2 seasons and wins 30 games.

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Boy Nas do you make a good point. A guy who pitched on some horseshit Minnesota and Cleveland teams, who had 242 career complete games and 60 shutouts shouldn't be in the HOF because he fell a handful a wins shy of that 300 mark.

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Schilling does not belong in the HOF, for Christ's Sake.

Nas, I hate to pull this on you, but did you see Blyleven pitch?
As Franklin pointed out, stats aren't everything. Blyleven was twice the pitcher Schilling ever thought of being.

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Well one thing you have to understand is that for all the wins that Curt Schilling had, he did not have them with The Machine, and that hurts his chances, as far as a first ballot hall of famer.

I myself, who is a hall of fame voter, and inductee, know that when you look at the whole picture, Curt Schilling does not have some of the key ingredients in being a sure fire hall of famer. If you look at the bloody sock, for instance, you will be under the wrong assumption that blood is painful.

Blood, as we all know, is not inherently painful. And because we saw blood, and not an actual injury on that foot, I cannot in good faith to the hall of fame say that he was in any sort of pain that doesn't come with a normal pitcher when it's their day to pitch.

Also consider that the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks, who robbed the Yankees of a championship, were mostly comprised of robots. Now, when you look at what is going on in modern robotics, perhaps one day the league will look more favorably at what a circuitry board can do for a pitcher's arm or a second baseman's will to win. I know two of my four daughters are working on this very technology, and results so far have been very promising.

But for now, as it stands, Curt Schilling, while he knows how to write blogs very well, and can speak on his own behalf perhaps better than most athletes, does not mean exactly that he is a hall of famer. If that were the case, well, of course, he would be on the first ballot. Of course, if that were the deciding factor, many players most likely would not be in the hall of fame.

Of course for me it wouldn't matter, as my vernacular is as dominating as my player stats. I am one of the few who could go in either way.

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Second is better than first when speaking in terms of basemen, and more specifically, me.

In his prime (in Arizona) Curt was a better pitcher than pretty much anyone else in baseball, and better than Burt ever was.
But as a late bloomer, Curt bounced around for the first 7 years of his career with a 50-50 record. if he was 65-35 in those first 100 decisions, there would be little debate.

BTW,
The fact that Blylevyn is not in the HOF is by far the biggest travesty of all the dumb ass MLB goofs. If he pitched his career on the Yankees or the Dodgers he would have 350+ wins.

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I missed Blyleven's prime, but I saw enough of his career to know he belongs.
I saw all of Schilling's career and he does not belong. Stats be damned.
Numbers are like your brother-in-law, they lie. I watch 'em play.
Schilling is not a HOF'er. You can quote this and that, but he is not worthy of the HOF.

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And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass on the ground when he hopped. So now he has that working against him, along with not able to be a free agent? Your 2 arguments against Bert have nothing to do with his stats.

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Blyleven won 2 WS and was 5-1 with a 2.47 ERA in postseason play when he wasn't on a team that sucked.

Also, he was injured in his late 20s and missed a couple prime years of wins.

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Can we all agree to include Blyleven in the HOF and leave him out of the discussion regarding the potential induction of Schilling into the HOF? While we may not like it, the baseball gods have deemed Blyleven unworthy for quite a long time. Throwing his name into the discussion here is simply a pointless diversion.

Without invoking Sir Bert, tell me how a HOF that includes Jim Bunning shouldn't include Curt Schilling?

Bunning : 519 starts : 224-184 W/L : 3.27 ERA : 2855 SO : 1000 BB : 151 CG : 40 SHO : 1.179 WHIP
Schillling : 436 starts : 216-146 W/L : 3.46 ERA : 3116 SO : 711 BB : 83 CG : 20 SHO : 1.137 WHIP

You're right. Kick Bunning out too.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Schilling will get in. If he played for Detroit, he wouldn't. But, he played for Boston, so he will.

Schilling is the Jack Morris case. Very good career stats, excellent in the postseason. Except I think Morris was better for longer with more wins and he isn't in.

If Schilling gets in they better get Morris in there too.

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Why not David Cone? ...how about Brett Saberhagen?
Why don't Mike & Mike spend a couple weeks discussing the merits of these guys. Why? Maybe because they don't deserve it. But if they don't deserve it, neither does Schilling....at least Cone has a Cy Young award, Saberhagen has 2!!
Nice career Curt, now please retire and go away.

Pitching in 700 games with a career ERA just above 3 shows you that he was on lousy offensive teams and did not get much run support. So we should punish him for that? And reward Schilling because he landed on a couple of winners in the twilight of his career? That Arizona team was all free agent stadouts, for the most part. Something Blyleven never had. Same can be said to a lesser extent with Boston's first title. I just find it very very hard to deny a guy who has 240some complete games and 287 wins, but say yes to Curt fucking Schilling.

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If you go to baseball-reference.com they have a cool feature at the bottom of a players page that will tell you the 10 players whose stats they most matchup with in baseball history.

Burt Blyleven-

Don Sutton (914) *
Gaylord Perry (909) *
Fergie Jenkins (890) *
Tommy John (889)
Robin Roberts (876) *
Tom Seaver (864) *
Jim Kaat (854)
Early Wynn (844) *
Phil Niekro (844) *
Steve Carlton (840) *

Curt Schilling-

Kevin Brown (920)
Bob Welch (900)
Orel Hershiser (889)
Mike Mussina (888)
Freddie Fitzsimmons (884)
John Smoltz (880)
Milt Pappas (880)
Don Drysdale (875) *
Dazzy Vance (873) *
Jim Perry (871)

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

No. A career with only five great years, at least that many poor years and the question about his 'training' regimen doesn't scream HOF to me.

Hall of Good, yes, just like K. Brown, Mussina and Bob Welch.

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If the Kiefer Sutherland-looking Curt Schilling gets into the Hall of Fame, they'll definitely look at his dominating postseason resume first. Other than that, Bert Blyleven, complete with a Twins' cap, should get into Cooperstown ahead of Schilling. When Curt gets in, the HOF will have him sport a Red Sox cap for sure.