Curt Schilling belongs in the Hall of Fame; Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens do notQuin Hilyer
Dec. 30, 2021
Curt Schilling should be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should not. Anyone who says the opposite is a logical and moral midget.
No offense meant to people whose stature rather than sense is tiny. In a way, though, the modern fetish for being offended is what this is all about.
The topic arises now because all ballots by Hall of Fame voters must be postmarked before midnight on New Year’s Eve. Schilling, Bonds, and Clemens, all of them controversial, are each in their final year of eligibility for the Hall. Let’s deal with Bonds and Clemens first. The evidence is voluminous that both of them used steroids to enhance their athletic performances. These athletes besmirched the integrity of the game itself. Their performance statistics bizarrely and suddenly improved (from very good to other-worldly) exactly at ages when most non-steroidal players begin fading.
(The statistical similarity between Bonds and his talented father Bobby at identical ages, until Barry’s steroid use allegedly got serious, was uncanny. The son suspiciously had his best years at ages beyond which his father had already retired, all while the son’s body changed so noticeably that even his hat size grew.) ...
Washington ExaminerI agree wholeheartedly with the writer, who states the reason Schilling has been blackballed is his conservative politics.
