Remember the bloody sock? It became the symbol of the Red Sox World Series championship in 2004 that ended “the curse of the bambino” — an 86-year-long drought following the Babe Ruth trade in 1918. The sock was worn by pitching ace Curt Schilling who’d just had surgery. With a bleeding ankle, he still won the crucial Game Six of the American League Championship series against the New York Yankees. That put the Sox into the World Series in which Schilling won Game Two in a four-game sweep of the Cardinals.
Schilling is a hero to New Englanders, but not to the liberal Boston Globe, which ran the Sunday headline: “Will Curt Schilling’s inflammatory rhetoric keep him out of the Hall of Fame?” Sports writers cited his conservative politics for their negative votes. Now Schilling’s scalp hangs in the cancel-culture hall of fame. No one can doubt that Schilling is one of the greatest pitchers of all time, but to liberal media his politics are deplorable, especially his support for Donald Trump.
McLaughlin asserts:"No one can doubt that Curt Schilling is one of the greatest pitchers of all time." Schilling never won a Cy Young. Schilling's 216 careers wins are low for a Hall of Famer and his 3:46 ERA is high. Schilling is decidedly not "one of the greatest pitchers of all time. However, he is one of the best post-season pitchers of all time. Schilling is a borderline Hall of Famer and will most likely get in through the "Veteran's Committee". Having already lost credibility on most issues he writes about, McLaughlin can now add baseball to the list.
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McLaughlin asserts:"No one can doubt that Curt Schilling is one of the greatest pitchers of all time." Schilling never won a Cy Young. Schilling's 216 careers wins are low for a Hall of Famer and his 3:46 ERA is high. Schilling is decidedly not "one of the greatest pitchers of all time. However, he is one of the best post-season pitchers of all time. Schilling is a borderline Hall of Famer and will most likely get in through the "Veteran's Committee". Having already lost credibility on most issues he writes about, McLaughlin can now add baseball to the list.
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