Schilling, the Hall, and the Character Clause

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Historically, character has only come into play for borderline candidates. Which, as the 6th or 7th* best starting pitcher of his generation, Schilling is.

The debate over Schilling would be a lot more interesting if he had the resume of an all-time great, or even a rock-solid Hall of Famer like Steve Carlton. But he doesn’t. If character matters at all (and the official rules say it does), Schilling belongs on the outside looking in.


*- Behind Pedro, Clemens, Johnson, Maddux, Smoltz, and arguably Mussina.
I'm pretty comfortable placing Schilling's case above the Hall of Famer John Smoltz, even though they are basically the exact same guy (Schilling is Smoltz's #1 career comp.)

Schilling has more wins, more strike outs, slightly better ERA+, slightly better WHIP, and 13 more WAR than Smoltz. All of Smoltz's saves are neat, but Schilling's post season heroics in multiple World Series are much more significant than Smoltz's saves to me.

I think the blatant cheaters like ARod, Clemens and Bonds should be in and I think a blatant asshole like Schilling should be in.
 

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I’m torn up with his post WS life, but unlike a lot of players from that era and post steroids history..,.and I do not justify any damn thing about post life...he was damn good at his peak. Schilling should be in.
 

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Lots of stuff going on in this thread.

Before getting on my soapbox about Schilling, "thought crimes", Hall of Fame eligibility, etc. I will for the sake of brevity say that if I had a vote, I'd very likely use one of them on Schilling (depending on the candidate backlog). I think he's deserving of enshrinement. He's in the top 30 in WAR for pitchers of all time. He has a top 30 K per 9 and is 5th all time in K to walk (he'll likely improve as 3 ahead of him are current pitchers in their peak)

He's a class A douche bag, and either a very sick or very intentionally cruel human being. Some of his defenders here are saying that he really didn't do anything outside of speaking an unpopular opinion.

The guy regularly demeans transpeople, mocking them. 40% of trans youths attempt suicide at some point (https://www.hrc.org/blog/new-study-reveals-shocking-rates-of-attempted-suicide-among-trans-adolescen). Beyond that, Schilling has called for the lynching of journalists in a climate in which journalists are being murdered at historically significant rates (https://freedomhouse.org/blog/violence-against-journalists-transnational-enterprise).

Does he have a right to express himself under the first amendment? Absolutely. Does that right require Hall of Fame voters recognize him for his stellar career and not punish him for for saying shit that's borderline evil? No, not at all.

This isn't a Republican thing. There are plenty of people who are conservative and don't go out of their way to be cruel to people (though the frequency in which people act like Schilling would have me questioning my politics if I were a conservative; not sure if I'd want to be in that club).

This isn't an oppression of unpopular thought thing. The Dixie Chicks lost their careers in their peak because they were willing to take the risk to speak out about a political cause. Ditto for Kaepernick. Schilling too is facing blow back for his advocacy for an issue. Only, history will probably think better of the former 2 than Schilling.

I hope he gets in. I loved him as a ballplayer and I think the Hall in general is losing it's focus on recognizing greatness in baseball. But yeah, the guy's a piece of shit, and we should all endeavor to take a bathroom break when he gives his acceptance speech.
 
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Schilling called for the launching of journalists? Really?

Does that mean you think Barack Obama really called on his supporters to shoot Republicans (If they bring a knife, we bring a gun). Did Eric Holder really tell Democrats to physically assault Republicans (If they go low, we kick ‘em)? Did Eric Swalwell (D-CA) really call for the government to nuke gun owners?

Or do you think maybe all 4 were exaggerating for effect, something everyone in human history has done.

I get the outrage over someone with his megaphone retweeting hateful memes against vulnerable populations. That’s justified. The American media establishment ain’t one of those. They’re big persons predominantly from privileged backgrounds themselves with powerful platforms and benefactors at their backs and they have no reservations about dishing out thinly sourced shit against people they don’t like—which included sportswriters shitting on Curt when they could get away with it. Seems like a pretty fair fight to me on that one.
 
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Schilling called for the launching of journalists? Really?

Does that mean you think Barack Obama really called on his supporters to shoot Republicans (If they bring a knife, we bring a gun). Did Eric Holder really tell Democrats to physically assault Republicans (If they go low, we kick ‘em)? Did Eric Swalwell (D-CA) really call for the government to nuke gun owners?

Or do you think maybe all 4 were exaggerating for effect, something everyone in human history has done.

I get the outrage over someone with his megaphone retweeting hateful memes against vulnerable populations. That’s justified. The American media establishment ain’t one of those.
You’re arguments are flawed for two reasons. First, Holder and Obama were using expressions that aren’t tied to actual incitements to violence anymore. Second, they get the benefit of the doubt. Schilling doesn’t.
 

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You’re arguments are flawed for two reasons. First, Holder and Obama were using expressions that aren’t tied to actual incitements to violence anymore. Second, they get the benefit of the doubt. Schilling doesn’t.
On your first point, I guess James T Hodgkinson, Rene Boucher, and Farzas Fazeli didn’t get the memo about it being a euphemism.

And your second point makes it very clear that this whole thread is just about politics.
 

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On your first point, I guess James T Hodgkinson, Rene Boucher, and Farzas Fazeli didn’t get the memo about it being a euphemism.

And your second point makes it very clear that this whole thread is just about politics.
Surely then, there’s dozens of other threads about denying players HOF enshrinement because of their conservative politics.
 

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He was a putrid human before Trump and hopefully we’ll look back on his ilk less favorably than we do now.
I honestly can't think of anything anyone would be upset about Pre-Trump except for the aforementioned 38 Studios demise, and it's a stretch to think hall voters would care.

The Smoltz comparison doesn't really work since Schilling's time as a reliever didn't really work out.
 

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Surely then, there’s dozens of other threads about denying players HOF enshrinement because of their conservative politics.
I don’t think it’s a players’ politics as much as a Twitter / Facebook thing. I don’t think it’s limited to conservatives either. We’ve seen Josh Hader, the Oscars’ host, and the Heisman Trophy winner get mugged by their social media history more recently than Schilling. One consequence is that now there’s nobody willing to host the Oscars this year (last I checked). Makes you wonder if it’s all worth it.
 

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I don’t think it’s a players’ politics as much as a Twitter / Facebook thing. I don’t think it’s limited to conservatives either. We’ve seen Josh Hader, the Oscars’ host, and the Heisman Trophy winner get mugged by their social media history more recently than Schilling. One consequence is that now there’s nobody willing to host the Oscars this year (last I checked). Makes you wonder if it’s all worth it.
And your second point makes it very clear that this whole thread is just about politics.

You were talking about this thread and how it’s politically motivated, not Twitter. What are your other examples of conservative ex players getting this type of reaction on the board for simply being conservatives?

I’m not sure what the rest of this has to do with anything, but I’m fairly sure humanity will keep on trucking just fine if Stephen Dorff has to host the Oscars.
 

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I don’t think it’s a players’ politics as much as a Twitter / Facebook thing. I don’t think it’s limited to conservatives either. We’ve seen Josh Hader, the Oscars’ host, and the Heisman Trophy winner get mugged by their social media history more recently than Schilling. One consequence is that now there’s nobody willing to host the Oscars this year (last I checked). Makes you wonder if it’s all worth it.
So what good character has Schilling displayed - the kind that makes him an ambassador for the game, the kind that might push him over the edge from being a marginal candidate to being in the hall?
 

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I’m going to tread carefully here, but I think the HoF should tell the story of the game. There’s certainly scumbags and cheaters in there already and guys like Schilling and the steroid crew - if they put up the numbers - should be in if found deserving on their accomplishments. Put an asterisk or a note on their plaque.
 

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I’m going to tread carefully here, but I think the HoF should tell the story of the game. There’s certainly scumbags and cheaters in there already and guys like Schilling and the steroid crew - if they put up the numbers - should be in if found deserving on their accomplishments. Put an asterisk or a note on their plaque.
The museum tells the story of the game. The Hall is there to honor the best of the best. You can still find the sock out on display even if there isn't a plaque for him.
 

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So what good character has Schilling displayed - the kind that makes him an ambassador for the game, the kind that might push him over the edge from being a marginal candidate to being in the hall?
I don’t think he’s a marginal candidate at all. After Maddux, Clemens and Johnson, I don’t think there was anyone Better in his era, and Maddux spit the bit in the playoffs quite a bit. To me, his peak, his post-season heroics, and his otherworldly rate stats.are first ballot material, as deserving as David Ortiz.

His post retirement slip into alt-right politics sucks, and it’s going to cost him votes. As I said earlier though, before he lost everything in his ill fated business venture, he was very charitable with his money and spoke out on good causes. So that’s what I’d put in the offset column against destructive twitter memes were i a hall of game voter.
 

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...were i a hall of game voter.
If you were a right-wing HoF voter, he might be your cup of tea. You lean enough to the left, you might despise him; enough to the right, adore him. Where does the line fall among the voters? Is the distribution normal and not particularly skewed?
 

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. As I said earlier though, before he lost everything in his ill fated business venture, he was very charitable with his money and spoke out on good causes. So that’s what I’d put in the offset column against destructive twitter memes were i a hall of game voter.
I am not aware of his charitable efforts, other than Curt's Pitch (self - serving foundation shut down the minute he retired) and his "donation" to the SoSH Jimmy Fund event.

As a huge Curt fan I am always looking for positives about him, so please educate me about his charitable actions
 

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I am curious about Curt's charity efforts as well. I know that over 10 years ago, this board had a partnership or association with him to raise money for ALS and other causes. However, that pre dates my time here. Would any member from that time frame be willing to discuss how difficult Schilling was to deal with? Did he actually show up to events? Was his heart into it or was Curt more perfunctory about his time.ie...30 minutes and out...
I just find it curious that during all this discussion about Schilling none of the members of SOSH who actually dealt with him have jumped to his defense. They have beeb silent. That speaks vokumes in my mind.
 

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I don’t think he’s a marginal candidate at all. After Maddux, Clemens and Johnson, I don’t think there was anyone Better in his era, and Maddux spit the bit in the playoffs quite a bit. To me, his peak, his post-season heroics, and his otherworldly rate stats.are first ballot material, as deserving as David Ortiz.

His post retirement slip into alt-right politics sucks, and it’s going to cost him votes. As I said earlier though, before he lost everything in his ill fated business venture, he was very charitable with his money and spoke out on good causes. So that’s what I’d put in the offset column against destructive twitter memes were i a hall of game voter.
I don't know, I've heard that Pedro dude was pretty good.

That Smoltz guy was just OK though - I mean, I always get him confused with Vineglav, or whatever his name was.
 

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And Maddux started 30 playoff games, pitched in another 5, with almost 200 innings of 3.27 ERA ball.
 

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So, because he’s acknowledged in one wing it’s cool, but in the other room, no?
Yes. You can find memorabilia about Fernandomania, Joe Carter's World Series homer, Don Larsen's perfect game, and all sorts of things that tell the story of the game in the main museum, whether the players were inducted or not. The Hall is to honor the best of the best individual players with no particular narrative attached. It's perfectly reasonable to think Schilling shouldn't be included in the latter while recognizing some of his achievements in the former.
 

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Yes. You can find memorabilia about Fernandomania, Joe Carter's World Series homer, Don Larsen's perfect game, and all sorts of things that tell the story of the game in the main museum, whether the players were inducted or not. The Hall is to honor the best of the best individual players with no particular narrative attached. It's perfectly reasonable to think Schilling shouldn't be included in the latter while recognizing some of his achievements in the former.
Sure, it’s perfectly reasonable. I just disagree.
 

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How the hell did I forget Pedro?

Here’s a good litany of Curt’s longtime commitment to ALS causes:

http://www.alsa.org/news/archive/schillings-hall-of-fame.html

And, The Scillings also started the Shade Foundation to raise money for melanoma research. It appears to still be operating, though they are no longer on the board.
Great. According to your link, he has raised over $10 million for charity. Even after the lawsuits, RI is still on the hook for $28 million for his stupidity. So in the balance, Curt is still a financial detriment to society.

Curt also helped to kill AAA baseball for me. My six year old loves going to the Paw Sox, took part in all sorts of kids club activities there this year. That will be ending soon, in part because of Curt.

No other baseball player has ever had a detrimental effect on me personally, HOF candidate or not. So fuck Curt Schilling. If I had a BBWAA vote I would pencil in "Fuck Curt Schilling."
 

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Schilling went into the video game deal with honest intentions, as evidenced by all the money he lost personally. He is a failed businessman. But RI is on the hook for $28 mil because of their own stupidity in going along with the deal in the first place, he didn't hold a gun to their head.

And pinning the Pawsox on him is silly.
 

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None of which changes the fact that Schilling is in the Kevin Brown/Mike Mussina zone.
I agree. Brown 68.4 WAR, Mussina 82.9, Schilling 80.6. I'd give Schill a bigger bump than the other two because of the postseason performance, but he's definitely not in the Pedro and Johnson tier.
 

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Appears that Moose is going to get in eventually tho.
Mussina s another one I think should be a lock. His 2 best seasons were the ones impacted by the strike in 94-95. If those 2 years are 162 games, he likely has back to back 20 win seasons on his resume and is already in because of that cache.

Schilling went into the video game deal with honest intentions, as evidenced by all the money he lost personally. He is a failed businessman. But RI is on the hook for $28 mil because of their own stupidity in going along with the deal in the first place, he didn't hold a gun to their head.

And pinning the Pawsox on him is silly.
Exactly. Holding Schilling responsible for RI politicians’ structuring a terrible program, making the decision to invest in Schillings company with that terrible program, and the a decade later lose the PawSox over it? That’s the height of projection.
 

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Schilling went into the video game deal with honest intentions, as evidenced by all the money he lost personally. He is a failed businessman. But RI is on the hook for $28 mil because of their own stupidity in going along with the deal in the first place, he didn't hold a gun to their head.

And pinning the Pawsox on him is silly.
I don't pin it all on Curt, but the specter of 38 Studios hung heavy over the discussion about a new Pawtucket stadium. His name came up a lot in the public outcry against the stadium. It may well have been unwarranted, but it did exist and was a factor.

And I also agree that there is plenty of blame to go around for the whole 38 Studios fiasco, but a sizeable chunk does belong to Curt. He was so stupid, he didn't even realize that he got the full $75 million, and that some was being held back for expenses in the bond. That level of incompetence, and his utter arrogance add to my ire. Then he topped it by bitching out Linc Chafee when Linc refused to throw more state money at the problem.

So yeah, for my non-existent vote for admission into an honorary society I vote Fuck Curt Schilling. And if any other MLB player manages to personally screw me over, I will vote fuck them too.
 

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Look at the books for Curt's pitch and see how much of that money went to ALS research. I've looked and I was appalled and started donating directly to avoid all his overhead.

He definitely raised the profile of the disease, but much of that money ended up in the pockets of his friends and family.
 

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Look at the books for Curt's pitch and see how much of that money went to ALS research. I've looked and I was appalled and started donating directly to avoid all his overhead.

He definitely raised the profile of the disease, but much of that money ended up in the pockets of his friends and family.
Gosh, he really is a Trumpista. Is any charity oversight committee (I assume they exist?) aware of this?
 

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Great. According to your link, he has raised over $10 million for charity. Even after the lawsuits, RI is still on the hook for $28 million for his stupidity. So in the balance, Curt is still a financial detriment to society.

Curt also helped to kill AAA baseball for me. My six year old loves going to the Paw Sox, took part in all sorts of kids club activities there this year. That will be ending soon, in part because of Curt.

No other baseball player has ever had a detrimental effect on me personally, HOF candidate or not. So fuck Curt Schilling. If I had a BBWAA vote I would pencil in "Fuck Curt Schilling."
Careful, they might count it.

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Mussina s another one I think should be a lock. His 2 best seasons were the ones impacted by the strike in 94-95. If those 2 years are 162 games, he likely has back to back 20 win seasons on his resume and is already in because of that cache.



Exactly. Holding Schilling responsible for RI politicians’ structuring a terrible program, making the decision to invest in Schillings company with that terrible program, and the a decade later lose the PawSox over it? That’s the height of projection.
Again, I don't give Curt all of the blame. But I have voted against some of the others responsible for that fiasco when I had the chance, and will do the same if I ever have the chance to vote against Curt.

And you are not local enough to have heard Curt mentioned by name in opposition to the stadium deal. Not 38 Studios, Curt Schilling. Was it warranted? Probably not, at least in the level it was presented, but it existed and it did influence the process.

But to show I am totally fair, if Larry Lucchino is ever nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame, I vote fuck him too for moving the Paw Sox.
 

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I was basically the CFO of the two SoSh ALS auctions. I collected the money and I also personally handed the checks over not to Schilling but directly to Mass ALS representatives. Over two years SoSH auctions donated close to $100,000 to Mass ALS. I still donate more than $500 annually in John Hoyt's memory.

As for. Schilling himself, he donated items including tours of the Red Sox clubhouse and also donated recipes to a cookbook we put together and sold to raise additional funds. So as far as doing his part to contribute to our efforts, he was fine.

However, he was difficult to pin down and slow to respond to a lot of communications. I remember he drove Fris nuts, all of us actually. We had to drag him down to the Red Sox dugout for the photo with the big cardboard check. I did get him to sign the carbon copy of the two cashier's checks. I gave one to Candy and still have the other one somewhere.

I should mention the others from the board who all worked together to raise a lot for Mass ALS, doubtless I'll forget someone but: Skrub, Fris, Candy, BrownDog, BSL, the lady who lives in Oregon I think, I can't remember her screen name to save my life but her help was priceless putting together the cookbook.

G38 is MLB HoF for what he did on the field, especially in the postseason. He isn't for his hate speech. However, I wouldn't be so quick to blame him for the gaming company failure. RI should have seen it coming from his books and should not have been so star struck.

I really don't think the character clause means anything.
 

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Citing Shank really doesn’t help your argument...
Oh no, I think Shank represents the sort of people who were calling into talk radio and writing letters to the editor of the Pro Jo to complain about the stadium deal very well. Mindless blowhards - kinda like Curt in that respect.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying pinning the failure of the Paw Sox deal on Curt is logical, I'm just saying it happened. The connection was made between a bad deal with a baseball player and a bad deal on a baseball stadium. Having that deal price out at $38 million in public funding didn't help psychologically either. He didn't have anything to do with the Paw Sox, but the mere association of his poisonous name had a detrimental effect.
 

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Another reason Mussina may get into Cooperstown over Schilling is because he kept his alleged racism mostly under wraps.
Gregory Lynn, a Red Sox fan who runs the "Red Sox Media Watchdog" web site ... uncovered another stunning example of Gammons' thin sourcing, compounded by blow-off writing that may have sold out someone Gammons was shielding. It came in Gammons' Jan. 18, 2000, column about the then-raging John Rocker racism controversy.

Here's what Gammons wrote: "What Rocker said was unforgivable. But the fact is, every team has heard similar diatribes those from small towns across America have about New York City. One of the game's best pitchers, a sophisticated, intellectual graduate of one of the world's finest universities, has splattered teammates with similar comments and boasts that he will never play without a no-trade clause to the two New York teams."

Even a casual baseball fan, after consulting his handy pocket Gammons-to-English dictionary, could quickly deduce the probable name of the alleged comment-splatterer. ... Mike Mussina graduated from Stanford. If he is not the "sophisticated, intellectual graduate" Gammons has in mind, it sure looks like he is. ...

[A]nother ESPN.com columnist, Rob Neyer, went through the process of elimination and came up with the same likely answer, posting his results not on ESPN.com but on his own RobNeyer.com site. Right around that time, Neyer's ESPN.com column vanished to parts unknown, for reasons equally murky. The Mussina piece disappeared from RobNeyer.com. It is obvious why the revelation in Gammons' column would mortify Mussina. ... Gammons' sloppiness left Mussina exposed ...
 

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Mussina signed with the Yankees as a free agent later that same year, so if Gammons did mean him, something is off.
 

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I don’t think it’s a players’ politics as much as a Twitter / Facebook thing. I don’t think it’s limited to conservatives either. We’ve seen Josh Hader, the Oscars’ host, and the Heisman Trophy winner get mugged by their social media history more recently than Schilling. One consequence is that now there’s nobody willing to host the Oscars this year (last I checked). Makes you wonder if it’s all worth it.
Hader was 14. The Heisman trophy winner was 14. Schilling is in his 40s. You don’t see the difference? Plus, Schilling is still tweeting that stuff.
 

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Another reason Mussina may get into Cooperstown over Schilling is because he kept his alleged racism mostly under wraps.
Disgusting. Mussina and Schilling while being shit bag people both probably deserve the hall. Definitely not in the Kevin Brown territory as someone previously mentioned.
 

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Disgusting. Mussina and Schilling while being shit bag people both probably deserve the hall. Definitely not in the Kevin Brown territory as someone previously mentioned.
Yes, let’s banish Mussina to eternal damnation based on a senile Gammons, Rob Neyer’s speculation and the sleuthing of...some guy.

If only Gammons had called him a special person...
 

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That’s Holmes Smarter Brother you’re talking about.

And Schilling and Mussina can twist in the wind for as long as Blyleven did. There’s no rush to get them in there.
No, I agree, let them twist, but at least we have concrete evidence on Schilling being a piece of shit. Rob Neyer trying to decipher a Gammons comment doesn’t do a lot for me to put Mussina in the damnation pile.
 

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Yeah, I’m sure he meant it totally literally! Ctfo.
Do you think he was facetiously saying that Comey and Clinton should be hung for treason or do you think he actually believes that? Because I think I have a pretty good idea. And the, “He was just kidding!” is a bit rich coming from a guy who didn’t recognize Obama making an Untouchables joke about pulling a gun.

I absolutely agree Schilling has made lots of horrible comments on Twitter and talk radio. Anti-social media brings out the worst in a lot of people. He was also extremely charitable with his money when he had it,
You should talk to some of the people on this board who tried to work with him on such endeavors.

and spoke out for many good causes from his star athlete platform. People are complicated. News at 11.
You’re talking about one of the simplest simpletons around.

When people tell you what they are, believe them.
 
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