Curt Schilling Says He'd Be in Hall of Fame if Not Pro-Trump

Outspoken conservative media personality and once-dominating Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling isn't in the Hall of Fame, and he thinks the former has something to do with it.

Schilling told TMZ that the reason he's being kept out of baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., is because of his political views.

"If I had said 'Lynch Trump,' I'd be getting in with about 90% of the vote," Schilling said.

Instead, of course, he endorsed something more akin to lynching his electorate (and later deleted it.) He was also fired by ESPN last year for sharing this post:

So while he's probably right to some extent - voters have admitted to taking issue with some of Schilling's controversial in-your-face posts on social media - he certainly invited that risk.

Schilling won three championships - two with Boston - and made six All-Star teams in his 20-year career. He was one of the game's premier postseason pitchers. On pitching pedigree alone, he's a very compelling case. But the Hall of Fame voters are encouraged to consider character when voting, a clause which Schilling says voters pick and choose when to invoke.

Schilling is now a radio host on the Howie Carr Radio Network.

Players need 75 percent of the vote to get into the Hall. Schilling made a jump in the most recent voting, but still fell well short at 52.3 percent.

See Schilling's comments here.

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