Curt Schilling had enough.
On Tuesday, the pronounced MLB pitch shared a letter he wrote to the Baseball Hall of Fame after voting for a ninth year in a row.
“I will not take part in the last year of voting,” he wrote in the message shared to Facebook. ‘I ask to be removed from the vote. I am referring to the veterans committee and men whose opinions actually matter and are able to judge a player. ”
The Hall of Fame board said they would consider Schilling’s request.
Schilling, along with Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, were the top three voters in 2021, with no one voting 75% on BBWAA ballots. Schilling was the closest with 71.1 percent.
“I do not think I am a hall of fame as I have often said,” he continued, “but if former players think I am, I will accept it with honor.”
The 54-year-old who has competed in five MLB careers over a 20-year MLB career – the Arizona Diamondbacks World Series titles in 2001 and the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and 2007 – has won 216 games with an ERA of 3.46 in his career with 3,116 dropouts, good for the 15th all-time. Where he stood out was in the post-season, where he set an 11-2 record in 19 starts, including a 4-1 point and 2.06 ERA in seven World Series principles.
Schilling’s post-baseball life was controversial. He was suspended from an ESPN concert at the Little League World Series after comparing Muslim extremists in a tweet with Nazi-era Germans. His later Facebook post about transgender people caused him to shoot out of the network.
A day after the attack on the American Capitol, he wrote on Twitter: ‘Cowards sat on your hands, did nothing while liberal rubbish was looted and lifted for the Jordan and big screens. Sit back … and watch people start a confrontation for (explicitly) issues such as rights, democracy and the end of government corruption. ”
Ballot papers had to be delivered by the time of the attack.
In recent years, he has haunted the media, which he says has painted unfairly.
“The media has created a Curt Schilling that does not exist and has never existed,” he wrote. ‘It’s one of the things that put me to sleep at night. Not a shred of it is to absolve myself of sin, Lord knows I have committed my part and will do it again. Never be malicious, never intentionally or intentionally hurt someone else. I was 100% liable and still am. Even the thought of responding to allegations of ‘nazi’ or ‘racist’ or any other term so watered down and meaningless by spineless cowards who have never met me makes me sick. In modern times, the claim is validated in some way. “