Curt Schilling, a three-time World Series champion, dropped 16 votes from the 75% mark that would make him a Hall of Famer this year. For the second time in eight years, no MLB player will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Schilling has another chance to come to Cooperstown next year, but the former champion for the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox wants his name removed from the poll.
Following the announcement that no MLB players will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021, Schilling shared a letter he wrote to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday after missing for a ninth year in a row.
“I will not take part in the last year of voting. I request to be removed from the vote,” Schilling wrote on his Facebook page. “I refer to the veterans committee and men whose opinions actually matter and are able to judge a player. I do not think I am a hall of fame as I have often said, but as former players I think I am. then I will accept it with honor. ‘
Schilling hosted 20 MLB seasons, scoring 216 career wins, with an ERA of 3.46 and 3,116 strikes. He finished second twice twice in the Cy Young poll.
Schilling is best remembered for hitting Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS against the New York Yankees with a bloody sock, resulting from an ankle injury, and the bloody sock was a byproduct of the stitches against his tendon pressed. The Red Sox eventually won the game and finally ended their 86-year-old wait for a World Series title.
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Since retiring as a baseball player, Schilling has been surrounded by controversy.
First, he was expelled from ESPN while attending the Little League World Series after sending a tweet comparing Muslim extremists to Nazi-era Germans. He was eventually fired from the network after posting a comment on Facebook about transgender people.
When people attacked the American Capitol a few weeks back, Schilling immediately took to his Twitter account.
“You cowards were sitting on your hands, doing nothing while looting liberal rubbish and shooting and burning for the Jordan and big screens, sit back … and watch people start a confrontation for (explicitly) what matters like rights “democracy and the end of government corruption,” 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 professional baseball in the most cultured locker rooms in sports, I have never in any other capacity said or acted as a good teammate,” Schilling wrote. “I’m definitely exposed to racism and sexism and homophobia because it’s part of who people are. I’ve played and talked to gay teammates. I’d played with women beaters, adulterers, assaults, drug addicts and alcoholics. I’ve never. did not touch a woman, drive drunk, do drugs, PED or otherwise, assault anyone or commit any crime.
“But I’m now somehow talking to two men who cheated, and instead of being liable, they chose to destroy other lives to protect their lie.”
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Schilling continues: “I will always have one thing that they will pursue forever. A legacy. Whatever mine is as a player, that will be the truth, and one that I have earned for better or worse.
“After all, the media has created a Curt Schilling that does not exist and has never existed. That’s one of the things that allowed me to sleep at night. Not a shred of it is to free myself from sin, Lord I know “I have committed myself and will do it again. Never be malicious in never hurting anyone else intentionally or intentionally. I was 100% liable and still am.”