Curt Schilling, three-time World Series champion, dropped 16 votes before the 75% mark that would make it a Hall of Fame this year. For the second time in the past eight years, no MLB player will be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Schilling will have one more opportunity next year to reach Cooperstown, but the former Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox star wants his name removed from the vote.
On Tuesday, after the announcement that no MLB player will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 2021, Schilling shared a letter he wrote to the Baseball Hall of Fame after losing his accolade for the ninth consecutive year.
“I am not going to participate in the last year of voting. I am asking to be removed from the ballot, ”wrote Schilling on his Facebook. “I’m going to move on to the committee of veterans and men whose opinions really matter and who are in a position to really judge a player. I don’t think I’m a hall of fame, as I said, but if the former players think I will accept that with honor. “
Schilling shot for 20 MLB seasons, had 216 career wins, with an ERA of 3.46 and 3,116 eliminations. He finished second in Cy Young’s vote three separate times.
Schilling is best remembered for launching the 2004 ALCS game 6 against the New York Yankees with a bloody sock, which resulted from an injury to the ankle tendon, and the bloody sock was a by-product of the stitches pressing against his tendon. The Red Sox ended up winning the game and ended their 86-year wait for the World Series title.
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Since Schilling retired from baseball as a player, he has been surrounded by controversy.
First, he was suspended from ESPN while in the Little League World Series, after sending a tweet comparing Muslim extremists to Germans from the Nazi era. He ended up getting fired from the network after making a comment on his Facebook about trans people.
When people attacked the United States Capitol a few weeks ago, Schilling immediately took his thoughts to Twitter on the subject.
“You cowards sat on your hands, you did nothing while the liberal garbage ransacked and burned Jordan’s and big screens, relax … and watch people start a confrontation over (expletive) that matters like rights, democracy and the end of corruption governmental, “Schilling wrote at the time.
Schilling added in his Facebook post about the Hall of Fame that he is “at peace”.
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“In my 22 years of playing professional baseball in the most culturally diverse sports locker rooms, I never said or acted in any other role than being a good teammate,” wrote Schilling. “I was certainly exposed to racism, sexism and homophobia as part of who human beings are. I’ve played and talked to gay guys. I have played with women beaters, adulterers, the beaten, drug addicts and alcoholics. I have never hit a woman, drunk, used drugs, PEDs or any other type, assaulted someone or committed any type of crime.
“But now I am somehow in a conversation with two men who have betrayed and, instead of being responsible, they have chosen to destroy other lives to protect their lie.”
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Schilling continued: “I will always have something that they will pursue forever. A legacy. Whatever mine is as a player, it will be the truth, and something I have won for better or worse.
“Having said all that the media created a Curt Schilling that does not exist and never existed. It is one of the things that allowed me to sleep at night. it again. It was never malicious, it never hurt another person intentionally or intentionally. I was 100% responsible and I still am. “