Curt Schilling is fed up.
On Tuesday, the sincere MLB pitcher shared a letter he wrote to the Baseball Hall of Fame after losing the vote for the ninth consecutive year.
“I will not participate in the last year of voting,” he wrote in the message shared on Facebook. “I am asking to be removed from the vote. 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. “
The Hall of Fame board said it would consider Schilling’s request.
Schilling, along with Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, were the first three to get votes in 2021, with none reaching the 75% vote mark on BBWAA ballots. Schilling was the closest with 71.1 percent.
“I don’t think I am a hall of fame, as I have said many times,” he continued, “but if former players think I am, then I will accept that with honor.”
The 54-year-old, who launched for five teams over a 20-year career in MLB – winning World Series titles with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001 and the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and 2007 – won 216 games with an ERA of 3.46 in career, exciting up to 3,116 eliminations, good for 15th of all time. He excelled in the postseason, where he compiled a record 11-2 in 19 games, including a 4-1 mark and 2.06 ERA in seven games in the World Series.
Schilling’s life after baseball was controversial. He was suspended from an ESPN show in the Little League World Series after comparing Muslim extremists to Nazi-era Germans in a tweet. His subsequent Facebook post on transgender people caused him to resign from the network.
The day after the attack on the United States Capitol, he wrote on Twitter: “You cowards sat on your hands, did nothing while the liberal garbage looted riots and burned to breathe Jordan and big screens, relax…. and seeing people start a confrontation by (bad language) that matters like rights, democracy and the end of government corruption. “
The vote had already won at the time of the attack.
In recent years, he has protested the media, which he believes has painted him unfairly.
“The media created a Curt Schilling that doesn’t exist and never did,” he wrote. “It is one of the things that allows me to sleep at night. Not an ounce of it is to absolve me of sin, the Lord knows I have committed my part and I will do it again. It is never malicious, it never intentionally or deliberately hurts another person. I was 100% responsible and still am. Even the idea of responding to allegations of ‘Nazi’ or ‘racist’ or any other term so diluted and rendered meaningless by cowardly cowards who never knew me makes me sick. In modern times, responding to this bullshit somehow validates the claim. “