17 Burst results for "Kurt Schilling"
The Dan Patrick Show
"kurt schilling" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"My 20 year old doesn't care if Scott Rollins in a Hall of Fame. The 50 year old does. I know. Yeah, I don't know if it's as big a deal. Yeah. You know, the 20 year old doesn't care if bonds gets in or no, it doesn't care. It's not going to bother them, but like Manny and it bothered me that shilling didn't get in. Because whether you like it, I don't like Jeff Kent's personality, but that's not factoring into this. I love Dale Murphy's personality. That factor into this. All I know is certain guys you just go Kurt Schilling was a Hall of Famer. Absolutely was. 11 and two in a postseason I'll tell you somebody else that I've done a lot on that I think is a Hall of Famer that you may have heard me say it that I am shot. He's not in. How was Steve Garvey? We brought him up. We did 30 minutes on him. Two days ago. He had 11 all star period. I think he's got the most all star. He would be Robert Redford not winning an Academy Award. It's like, you know, that guy over the course of his, he might have been just too good-looking, Chris. Well, attached something else. You know, he played in 55. Postseason games. 55. He had 220 at bats. You notice batting average was? Three 38. With 11 homers. Yeah. Hold on now. Here's the guy that won an MVP. He had 200 hits. He played in what? 1400 games before he broke his finger that year, the book ain't over the slide of the plate. He was a great postseason hitter. He was on iconic teams. He played for 1213 years in a row, and this guy's not a lot of fame. I mean, and he played in a big market, you know? You would think that playing in LA that that would be reason you know what, how about we work on this together, you know? What Steve Garvey project? We're going to get him in. You know, I tell you right now, he comes on with me all the time.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"And those players could include Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling and any number of other really, really great players. And then the one player they wind up on is Fred mcgriff. We all do respect to Fred McGrath. And I'm really happy for the guy, right? Fred mcgriff is at best a fringe Hall of Famer, who is nowhere close to some of the other guys he was up against here. This is a guy that never got to 40%. 40% by the writers. You need 75% for induction. He barely got halfway there. Never once in his career buster. Did he finish top three in MVP voting? Never once buster by war, was he ever amongst the top three players in his league. Yes, he was brilliant in the 95 and 96 postseason. Yes. Had we not had the 94 strike, he would have gotten to 500 home runs. But in order to get yourself to a place where Fred McRib belongs in the Hall of Fame, you are presuming innocence when it comes to performance anti drug. And you have to talk yourself into him being a victim of that era. If you want to go there, okay, fine. But the bottom line of it is this. They assemble that collection of people to put Fred mcgriff into the Hall of Fame, which they did. And they assembled that collection of people to ensure that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were reviewed and they were. So the Hall of Fame, as always, got what they wanted, but this process from soup to nuts don't make any mistake about it buster was an absolute sham. Yeah, and the ballot limits again, the ball limited three, I find to be incredibly disrespectful to the individual players. You know, and I hate the idea that for the next, until the next time their names appear on a ballot, you know, if you are Don Mattingly, if you're a Dale Murphy, if you're Bond, you're Clemens, your Kurt Schilling, you have to sit back and go through this whole thing again. When their careers individually really were not assessed in this process because what we talked about. All right. You got it, man. Thanks for doing this. We'll be back in touch later in the week. Later, Friends, go Phil. Zero, 9, 6. This is the numbers game with
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Reported producer for MLB dot com. She is in San Diego serif. I had known you're in San Diego. I don't think I would have asked you to get up early to do this with us. The only thing in the world that I will ever get up early to do is do this podcast with you. I have told you that I've told Taylor that I think I've said that on here, so I'm always always thought to do so. Well, I know you well enough to know that that is definitely not true because you would get up to do any kind of work around baseball. If SportsCenter called and said, we need you to join if map excursion, you know, in the morning show, when did you join, you would do that because that's a type of COVID work you are. All right, I just was railing with Dave Shaw and field about the special committee vote yesterday. And we didn't even get into the whole issue of a PD guys, whether or not they should be in the Hall of Fame. I just can't believe we're in the same spot we were in the writers vote, Sarah, that the ballot limits again, clearly, to me, are an issue when it comes to assessing these players, you know, put in many, many years, and we get into Don Mattingly a Kurt Schilling, you know, an Albert bell, a Dale Murphy, they get into this situation where they're eligible for the Hall of Fame. And they're not really being considered in a vacuum. You know, their careers are not being considered just simply on what they accomplished or didn't accomplish, they're being considered based on jeez, how do they rank among these other 8 players because they put this ballot limited rate? What do you think? Yeah, it's really tough. I mean, in certain ways it feels like it's a more difficult ballot because these ballots are more handpicked and all of the guys on these ballots are thought to be, to my estimation, guys who were close missed out, deserve that second chance. And we all know that there are always guys who fall off in their first year on the main ballot not getting 5%. And it's an accomplishment for a career just to make the ballot. Of course, but there are always guys you look at and you know, oh, he's absolutely not going to be there. So that removes a little of the clouding when you're trying to get to your ten. But when you bring it down to an even smaller number and you take away the dilution of the actual ballot, I do think it makes a really tough, I think the public perception of what it was going to be. We found out about a year ago that they would be on this ballot if they didn't make it is very different from what actually happened. I think people hear special commending. They still think of the old veterans committee and they really think the jury of your peers. And they're like, well, baseball people know that statistically X, Y, and Z are Hall of Famers, but when you have so few choices to actually make, it gets so much more complicated than that. Yeah, I was thinking about one of the people in the committee, for example, Susan slusser, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. I don't know, you know, who she voted for or not, but I'm just imagine putting myself in her position, they have the conversation among the group. It's pretty clear mcgriff is going to get in. So, you know, it's a place you're probably going to vote there. I suspect based on her votes in the past that she would have she would does think that bonds and Clemens deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, but at some point, if you only have three votes and you're hearing the room, you're probably thinking, you know what? These side guys aren't going to get in anyway. I might as well try to use my vote for someone who might get in, whether it's a Don Mattingly or another player, it complicates it in a way that I just don't think is fair to the player, Sarah. Yeah, I agree. And I see, you know, I think the results we got. And the fact that nobody else really came close sort of prove what you're saying. You definitely get this and just looking at how the votes stroke out. That there were those kinds of decisions being made. And again, I just come back to, there's a higher percentage of individuals who you can make a really good argument for them being a whole of Famer. On this ballot, then on the mail ballot, I think. I mean, it depends on a given year. That's a great point, Sarah. But I just think overall this is a tougher balance. And I think people see it. And they think, okay, you get that second chance. But it's a little more complicated than that. It's much more complicated and these guys are going to get caught up just as they did when bonds and Clemens first and Sammy Sosa Mark McGuire and all those guys first appeared on the ballot. The log jam is going to continue and until the Hall of Fame steps in and changes that the ballot limit of three, that's going to continue in every year you're going to have a lot of players not judged on their merits, but judge how they rank, you know, the voters ranked them among the group. All right, let's play the numbers game. Number three number three is 31.
WTOP
"kurt schilling" Discussed on WTOP
"Constitutional democracy. Untruth social Trump posted that he should be reinstated as president and the constitution should be suspended in order to do that. UVA political analyst Larry sabato says Republicans need to step up. Where is the universal condemnation in the Republican Party of what Donald Trump has said? Linda canyon, CBS News. Fred mcgriff has been voted into the baseball Hall of Fame almost two decades after his final game, the Hall of Fame committee delivering the news yesterday, passing over Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Kurt Schilling. The 59 year old mcgriff received unanimous support from the 16 members of the contemporary baseball era committee, comprised of hall members, executives and writers, shilling got 7 votes and bonds and Clemens each received fewer than four. Coming up after traffic and weather more on these top stories, we're following for you this hour, starting today, you'll need three people in the car to ride for free in the I 66 express lanes. The Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples. House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul attended the Kennedy Center Honors awards with her last night. It was his first public appearance since he was brutally attacked in late October and their home. Stay with WTO for more on these top stories and just minutes. It's 7 18. Traffic and weather on the 8s here and it's Jack and the traffic center. Feel very heavy, very slow in Maryland trying to come out of Frederick run in two 70 south, brake lights after 85 head to the wreck that was before 80 and urbana had been blocking the left lane of two, traffic was stopped. Sounds like the cruise just moved everything onto the right shoulder, so at least now lanes are open. Rest of the ride down toward Bethesda, you may find a break later to in Germantown, top site adder loop, we're now slow from about New Hampshire toward Georgia, two 70, we Derek, excuse me, on I 95 going southbound. We have a delay now approaching and passing route 32. We may have a wreck down before two 16. Baltimore Washington Parkway, a lot of volume as well. Approaching and passing one 75 going south, passing one 98, then jammed at the beltway, the crash inside the beltway down near four ten had been blocking the left side of the roadway. 50 inside the beltway Chevrolet going west after two O two, that's a reported wreck. Three 55 could be a little bit heavier between Jones bridge and Cedar lane sounds like wait times at gate 5, according to Bethesda naval, are a little longer than usual, so there's going to be the possibility of a delay. Look for some slowdowns as you ride in Virginia, 66 going east. It's our crash, eastbound after business two 34, staying left to get by 95 coming northbound little delay in a choir. Then again, in woodbridge
WTOP
"kurt schilling" Discussed on WTOP
"Trump keeps sinking to new lows. Last week he had dinner with anti semites, and now he's calling for an end to America's constitutional democracy. Untruth social Trump posted that he should be reinstated as president and the constitution should be suspended in order to do that. UVA political analyst, Larry sabato, says Republicans need to step up. Where is the universal condemnation in the Republican Party of what Donald Trump has said? Linda canyon, CBS News. Western countries have begun imposing a $60 per barrel price cap and ban on some types of Russian oil. It's part of new measures aimed at stepping up pressure against Moscow over its war on Ukraine. The European Union, along with Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan and the U.S. agreed to the price cap on Friday. The move has prompted a rejection from the Kremlin and also criticism from Ukrainian president Vladimir Vladimir zelensky, whose government wants to cap to be half as high. The 27 country European bloc also imposed an embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea. Fred mcgriff has been voted into the baseball Hall of Fame, almost two decades after his final game. The Hall of Fame committee delivered the news yesterday passing over Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Kurt Schilling. The 59 year old mcgriff received unanimous support from the 16 members of the contemporary baseball era committee comprised of all members, executives and writers, shilling got 7 votes, bonds and Clemens each received fewer than four. Waukesha Wisconsin held its annual Christmas parade yesterday a year after a man drove through that city's parade, killing 6 people and wounding dozens of others. People lined the downtown streets to celebrate the holiday season and to remember the victims of last year's rampage. The parade featured first responders and others who witnessed the tragedy. We were in the parade last year, and of
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"kurt schilling" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"By 8 points against Green Bay. You're going to get it. I said 8 and a half, which is what it should be. 6 and a half. Oh. Hello. I'm just trying to think of how many night games Rogers could lose. Is it possible he just goes through all these? It's just worse and worse and did you watch that whole game Thursday? Yeah. Yeah. Rogers was terrible. He really was. He was, I think that was the worst game I've ever seen him play. All over the place. He was missing guys. He was late, spotty language was bad. I didn't even feel like the Titans played that well. I thought he was bad. Yeah. Yeah, he missed wide open guys. A lot. Over and over again. He looked awful. All right, well, let's work backwards here. This Collins word, what's it going to be? It's like, oh, right. We're going to be like, he's not himself, or is he going to be like, that's the Aaron Rodgers we know. I do worry that that's the iron Rodgers we know. It's going to, it's going to be the prevailing thought. I think it's the I don't think I don't think he trusts his team. I don't think he trusts these guys, Mike. I think he'll make excuses for him. Yeah. They ran out of ayahuasca halftime. You can't expect this guy to perform. I was at a tech side with somebody recently trying to figure out what Rogers is going to look like 5 years from now. Just like as a public figure, and whether there's possibility for him to become almost reviled, like what happened with Kurt Schilling. Whether that's in play. Like at least like 5 to one outs. Think so? Yeah? I'm not predicting it, but I do think if you're going to say which football star, I guess Brady would be the other possibility. Which football star is going to be reviled 5 years from now. Maybe nobody will be. Hopefully the answer is nobody. Well, will they stick them on jeopardy? Will you be that hate able? I mean, Brady's involved in this FTX thing and had a whole charity thing. He's had the craziest. All time roller coaster year where the roller coasters mostly just going down at full speed and then like a couple ups, but down, down, down. He's lucky Herschel Walker was
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm Brad. Now this Bloomberg sports update. If they're being swept by the Astros in a double header, the Yankees were in Baltimore on Friday evening and Aaron judge had his eth multi home run game of the season, tying the most ever in a season by a Yankee in the yank 7 to 6 win in Baltimore. Judge it two diggers and now has 36 on the season. Tomorrow night in Baltimore to be Gary Cole on the hill, being opposed by Baltimore's Jordan lyles. The bombers have 65 wins, the most in the majors and are atop the AL east. The NL east leading mets have 58 wins, but fail to pick up their 59th victory of the season, opening a series with the Padres in flushing on Friday night, in which the mets are back in action after the all star break. Max Scherzer passed Kurt Schilling and bob Gibson and his 15th on the Major League Baseball all time strikeout list, but the metropolitan fell four to one in Queens to the Padres. On Saturday evening it'll be Chris Bassett and Blake Snell on the hill for New York and San Diego respectively. Coming off a victory over the New York Red Bulls, New York City FC is back in action on Saturday evening, hosting into Miami CF in The Bronx. Also back in action on Sunday evening, will be the Red Bulls taking on Austin FC on the road. The liberties losing streak is at 5 games, New York entertains Chicago at Barclays center on Saturday afternoon. And Scott piercy heads into the weekend to top the leaderboard of the 3M open at TPC twin cities in Blaine, Minnesota, at 13 on de par, three shots ahead of emiliano grillo after shooting a 64 on Friday. Here's how PRC feels heading into the weekend with the lead. Obviously it feels great. I mean, it's been a little bit since I've played like
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"We're having train will be in Chicago this weekend. Crawl rabbits play by play man on Sunday Night baseball and we got the Cardinals and cubs and rabi is gonna be a fun day to put Adam Wainwright on a pedestal. You know, what do we do? The Cardinals a few weeks ago and it felt like we put Adam Wainwright and Albert two holes in yachty to lead on a pedestal, but Adam lain writes one of these guys buster where you think about people that are allegedly going to hang up their spikes, you look at his numbers, you look at the person and you look at the leadership, you look at his relationship with the city and the team and you wonder like, really? Like, where is he going? Why is he going anywhere? I mean, numbers have been outstanding. His curveball, while he's throwing it less, continues to be incredibly effective. He's using a synchron out more and more and he gets guys out. I just read the article on ESPN dot com about the 148 names that might be available. And while Wainwright and the cardinals are definitely going to get into the playoffs the way they're playing, think about if they weren't. He'd be at the top of every list. I mean, he'd be the Luis Castillo. He'd be the Frankie Monta, but he's that good and we're thinking about hanging it up. So yeah, I'm all about watching Adam Wainwright and you already do their business on Sunday Night. Yeah, Albert's made it clear. This is it. After all these years and yachty's got all that wear and tear of being a catcher, he's made it clear this is it. Adam Wainwright, and I'm looking forward to talking with him tomorrow. So I'm going to ask him about that like, are you sure are you sure, especially Carl because when you look at his career numbers, he clearly at this point is a borderline case for Hall of Fame. I don't think, you know, with the numbers that he has now that he would be voted in. The first time he'd be in a ballot, I do think that eventually he would get in, but if he pitched another year, another two years that kept on accumulating numbers and it took his win total and we don't care about wind totals as much as we used to, but took his wind total over 200, given his history and the postseason. I think he would move from being a borderline guy to be in, yeah, he's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, look, a good, strong postseason would benefit him. He had a you have to tell me where you think he is relative to a guy like shilling. I mean, shillings the guy for me that should be in the Hall of Fame, just based solely on his pitching. Is Adam Wainwright better than Kurt Schilling. And that's where they're close, she'll clearly have sort of a postseason pedigree that I don't think Adam's numbers suggest. Another ring wouldn't be the worst thing, but those are the I would always use Kurt as the bar and to me, Adams there, but he's got to do, as you said, a little bit more to get over that. Yeah, and I think during the course of broadcast and Sunday, you're also going to hear another part of Adam Wainwright's life, and that is music. And it'll be fun to hear some of the song we're about some of the songwriting that he's done during his time in baseball. By the way, before and I don't mind telling this story here in the podcast because I know David Cohn is too busy with all the broadcast he's doing to ever listen to this, but before we had our call Zoom call yesterday, I reached out to Andy Jacobson our producer and I said, hey, when we talk about Wainwright and the Hall of Fame, we need to extend that to our friend David Cohn. Because when you look at his numbers, okay? Adam Wainwright Nick his career wars around 42. David Wright's David Cohn's career war, 62.3. He's in the same statistical neighborhood as guys like Juan marichal and Don Drysdale, who you know are in the Hall of Fame. He's got plenty of company right there. There were a number of years where he was the hired gun, like any team. You go trade for David Cohn a 194 wins at 3.46 ERA, pitching most a lot of his career in the American League east. You know what? Let's go voters. No argument for me. I agree with you. I mean, when we first, you know, we're told he was being considered for the job. You do a lot of research on him. A is a person B is a pitcher. I mean, obviously we covered him throughout his career, but all those numbers that you suggested and his ability to do it on 5 different jeeves and his ability to win rings, all those things do add up, and you're absolutely right. I think he is under valued and underappreciated. Statistically, the war is wonderful, but I think perception wise, maybe because he bounced around, he didn't wear one uniform, hurts in the eyes of the public, like how good was he, but if you were there to witness the perfect game, if you were there to see him get hired in September or traded in July. That was the guy you won on your team. And I'm all on the buster train with this one. I agree with you. And especially in the context of somebody like Adam Wainwright, because he does stack up very favorably. And if you're going to bring up Hall of Fame for Adam Wainwright, you have to mention David Cohen. So a teammate that we have who already has been voted in the Hall of Fame is.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm trying to reach David Ortiz This is David Ortiz Hello David This is Jack O'Connell with the pixel providers association of about it New York But you know that the baseball riders have elected you to the national baseball home Players need to receive 75% of the vote from the baseball writers association to be elected Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Kurt Schilling who have been accused of taking performance in Anton drugs did not get in And this was their last year to do so Bond's got 66% Clemens got just over 65% shelling got under 59% Sammy Sosa who also didn't get in God only 18.5% By the way Alex Rodriguez He did not get in He only got 34.3% Majority story here is just we're so tight David and I just would go way back He's on phone with me with a charity he's doing And there's some huge news that day in baseball And of course everybody's in my ear you can't ask him you can't ask him he has cast him But I went to the schenker school of journalism You may have heard of it And Marty basically says I'll throw you out the door with Mike if you don't ask adult Questions Yes Goodness There are teas a question whatever the topic is and all you heard on Bloomberg radio coast to coast Click Oh Poppy Me right in my journalist I tell you though First time going in he deserved it And what's so important here is a big guy supposedly playing first place He was a legit athlete That's right This was not somebody sort of faking it with size No he was the real deal And I'm so glad to see it By the way bonds and all those other guys who didn't get in They could still get in by a special vote Don't get me going You know how to push the buttons Something to be able to.
WTOP
"kurt schilling" Discussed on WTOP
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WTOP
"kurt schilling" Discussed on WTOP
"Red Big day for big puppy Here's rob wood for Yes it is the breaking baseball news of the tonight David Ortiz the longtime Red Sox slugger headed to cooperstown as the lone player voted to the baseball Hall of Fame receiving 77.9% of the vote in his first year of eligibility big poppy telling MLB network after the announcement That team was surrounded with so many superstar that went in there like a spoon trying to learn how to get things started because I know I got the talent but it doesn't matter how much time you got If you don't have the right people around you that you can learn and have the patient to bring your ability to the highest level you're never gonna have neither Barry Bonds nor Roger Clemens came closer to the 75% threshold to earn enshrinement they earned over 65% over the vote barely Kurt Schilling got just 58.6% of the vote in Sammy Sosa only 18.5% All four of them in the tenth and final year of eligibility in the annual balloting Back home the wizards and clippers just underway at Capital One arena in the final game of the wizards homestand and the whiz off to a 7 O run to start this game and the big stoner in the NFL today New Orleans now searching for a head coach after Sean Payton stepped down after 16 years in the Crescent city I can not overstate how important he was to the saints organization He won the franchise's only Super Bowl to cap a brilliant 2009 season his 9 playoff wins exactly 9 times the amount of playoff wins the saints had in the 38 years before his arrival Rob woodfork WTO sports All right rob still ahead on WTO P your middle of the week forecast and emotional description tonight of the situation with those four firefighters in that row house collapsed in Baltimore three of them losing their lives Stay close to WTO Public and private sector organizations are challenged by today's cyber threat environment Government wide agencies are renewing efforts to improve their security and limit the impact of cyberattack a key component for long-term success is closing the national cyber skills gap.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"If Kurt Schilling gets in this year, it really bodes well for a guy like John Lester. Not necessarily in his first year eligibility, but much later, maybe towards the end of his eligibility. You got to witness this part of his game, which I found to be fascinating because I've just seen in you have seen a lot of players. You know, an issue pops up and they and I really don't mean this as a criticism. I mean it is an observation, a flaw will develop in a player and they melt. They don't know how to deal with it. I don't remember another situation comparable to what we saw with Jon Lester in that he clearly had this issue throwing to first base the industry, other teams began to focus on that and try to take advantage of it. And man, he battled. You know, he didn't ever clean it up. He never got past that, but between he and David Ross and Joe Madden and Anthony Rizzo, they battled. I thought that was a cool part of his career. It's a great example of what you said earlier about his toughness. He attacked that sort of with this mentality that it wasn't going to beat him. Okay, if he gave up the stone base, he was going to strand him at second base. But even better than that, buster, he found ways to keep that guy at first. Listen to these stolen base totals off the top of my head. When he came over to the cubs first time in the national league of league where you're going to run a little bit more, he gave up 44 stolen bases his first season with the cubs. It went from 44 to 28 to 19 to ten, four years later. That's what he gave up on the bases by the end of his run with the cubs. He figured out a way he varied his time to home plate. You're right, David Ross, Anthony Rizzo and later Wilson Contreras certainly helped him out that in that department. And then he was able to pick off I forget the cardinal he picked off and that really set the tone because he actually did throw over there and now everybody had it on tape that he was at least willing to do it and he really attacked it with that toughness. You mentioned, one other point I want to make regarding that towards the end with the cubs especially, his skills were eroding, right? He didn't have his fastball. His cutter wasn't even as good. He remade himself. He reinvented himself several different times. Even this last year with the nationals, a 5 O 5 ERA, and then he goes over to the Cardinals and has success there winning his 200th game. Several different times, he went into that video room and found his flaws and fixed himself to go on a little bit of a run. Then he might have that he might come back down to earth, figure some things out and go on that run again. So that's where that toughness came in. He didn't let those deficiencies beat him or define him late in his career. His career comes to an end in the midst of a labor stoppage, the owners locking out the players. You know, I wonder about this for John Lester in the same way that I wondered about it when Kyle Seager announced his retirement. If we had a normal off season, right? Where there was business taking place and contenders were filling spots and everybody knew for sure when spring training was going to open when the season was going to open. I wondered when Kyle Seager retired, you know what? I wonder if he would have continued playing, maybe not as a star player at the same salary, but if he would have continued playing if it was just a regular off season and he could just go about his business and stay in the same rhythm. John Lester is the same way. I mean, we saw at the end of last season with the Cardinals. He could be an effective pitcher. Yeah, I don't think so he was breaking down last year was the first full season in like a decade. He didn't reach 30 starts. He told me in the piece that I wrote, it was just getting harder and harder between starts and certainly in the off season to prepare for the regular season. I don't disagree with your sentiment. The game is right now unhealthy off the field, labor problems, and it's a little bit unhealthy on the field. We know it needs some changes in terms of the rules and the flow and the pace. So with those two things combined, I could see how there be some players a little down in the game might call quits. And John's case, I think it was more physical than anything. And he also offered this up to me that the pandemic opened his eyes, he's home with his family. He's enjoying his kids a little bit. So maybe without the pandemic, maybe a physically, he felt a little bit better at 38 years old. You might be right. But certainly the labor strife and the issues on the field in terms of just the flow of the game and everything. It certainly contributed to some people in their sort of negative feelings towards the even the game that they love and that they get paid a lot of money for..
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"I'm doing great. How about you? I'm doing okay. Today we're going to be talking about the Hall of Fame in the process and Derek gold is coming up. I know you know his work well. But I just want to talk about where we are with the ballots for this year. I wrote a piece on ESPN dot com about how I think we pretty much already know where the ballot's going to fall and who's going to get in this year. And just to let everybody know about the process, ballots are sent out, typically by the Hall of Fame and late November early December, and after that writers can turn their votes in any time they want with a late December early January deadline. And along the way, some writers like to post their ballots either in columns or in social media and starting a 2014 Ryan thibodeau began to tabulate these votes. Hey, I sent him a direct message the other day and asked him how he first came to do that and he said he was a fan of the Astros and Jeff Bagwell. He was curious about whether or not he was going to get in. And he does a wonderful dissection of the votes as they come in in terms of getting details. But as I write about in the column, it also means that we pretty much know where the results are going to be this year. So that's what I want to ask you run through some of the candidates and what we're seeing in the voting. Sound good? Absolutely. And I'm so glad you reached out to him, you know, I've been following him this entire time. I had no idea why he started doing this. So I'm so glad you got that answer. Yep. All right, Barry Bonds. What are we seeing in his chances for getting in and this, the last of his ten years on the ballot? So right now he's at 81% on all of the public ballots that's public and anonymous ballots that are submitted to him, but without a name attach them. So obviously that is above the 75% that's needed for election. This is only about a 130 ballots so far though they're going to be a lot more and one thing that he keeps track of and this is all on the track or the spreadsheet on his Twitter account if anyone is interested, not mister tibbs on Twitter. One thing that he keeps out there that's really helpful is he shows for the previous year. What that individual's percentage was before the ballots were revealed, the entire correct voting, what happened? And what it was afterwards. So last year, Barry Bonds lost 11.9 percentage points when the full reveal happened. So just to give you a sense, just because he's at 81 right now, that doesn't necessarily mean that we expect him to be there. So to your point, this gives us a really good idea of what to expect. I would say that you usually want to plus or minus a couple percentage points for any numbers that you're seeing. Yeah, last year he finished 53 votes shy of election and according to Ryan's tabulations, he's picked up two votes among returning voters. That is not a lot. What about Roger Clemens? So Clemens is in a very similar vote in terms of the numbers. He's at 79.6% right now. I believe there's one difference in terms of total votes between him and Barry Bonds right now. And we're actually it's two. The difference is to. And again, very similar loss 11.6 percentage points last year at the time of the reveal. So that's sort of what you're looking at. Again, is that there's going to be around that ten percentage point difference. So those two guys are obviously right there among where you would want to be in order to be elected that 75% again being the number. But there's an expectation that they will drop into your point with the votes gained so far from returning voters. He has gained it looks like to as well. So a similar exact same situation to bonds at the moment. Her chilling last year polled at 71 percent. I think just a tad over. Might have been 71.9% and then after the election last year, he essentially lobbying that he did not want to be on the ballot for this. He's last the last of his ten years on the ballot. What are we seeing in Kurt Schilling's chances? So his percentage has dropped off pretty significantly. He's at 57.7% right now. And it is important to note, so I was talking about those differences that we see between the final number we get publicly from Ryan thibodeau just when he's tracking and then the actual number, what comes out from the Hall of Fame when the results are revealed. He only lost three percentage points in that difference last year. So he wasn't having that big difference between those completely private ballots and the more public ones that bonds and Clemens were having. But that being said, he's pulling at 57.7% right now, which is, of course, well below that 75% and has lost a handful of votes. He has lost 15 among I'm sorry, he's lost 17 among returning voters he's gained too, and he has lost 17. And lastly, I want to ask you about two guys who are kind of in that in the polling at Ryan's tabulated in that ballpark of possibly getting in this year. David Ortiz and Scott role and what are you seeing where they stand now? So Ortiz is currently leading among all of the ballots that we know so far. So he's at 82.5%. So just ahead of bonds and Clements, we don't have any prior information since he is the first time a first time player on the ballot. So we don't know what percentage he might gain or lose when we get the official results towards the end of January. But he is doing well so far again, you know, he's at 82.5%. I don't know if he's going to be someone who would lose closer to ten percentage points or closer to three. But depending on that, seems like it will make or break it. But he is slightly ahead of those other two. And Roland's really interesting case. I mean, I think that his Hall of Fame case and the discussion of it has really started to follow the pattern that we've seen with the couple different players lately. Larry walker being the most recent where we see them really gain votes as their time on the ballot continues. And he's at 72.3% right now. We'll see what that ends up as he lost about 7 or 8% last year from what he was at to what was ultimately revealed, but his actual vote percentage last year was 52.9%. So he's even ahead of where he was on those public last year. And I think he's certainly in the bank of players who are continuing to have their baseball reference pages looked at and it seems like people are continuing to build that case..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I wouldn't be upset if those guys got in really because I don't think most people are even looking at it that way or that it's really even treated as a referendum on those things in most cases. It's just something I'm personally uncomfortable with. And I don't know that I really want to impose that personal discomfort on everyone else who might view the Holland character in a completely different light. I mean, I guess the point of how voting is that everyone has different standards and opinions and you apply your own and hopefully you end up with something that makes sense. But it doesn't seem like that's really working out these days. And I actually don't think it's all that useful to have this whole conversation be about character. And if I sent in a ballot where most of the names were unchecked because of the character clause, I feel like I would be giving my approval to the way this system is constructed and the way the instructions are written and I don't think that's really in the best interests of baseball history or visitors to cooperstown or people who pay attention to the Hall of Fame in general. So there's kind of a personal discomfort and there's kind of a conscientious objection element to this, not to make it too high minded. Some people say, well, MLB the hall should just provide more guidance about these moral questions or should rule certain players ineligible, but I don't know that MLB or the hull is more equipped necessarily to rule on these things than the writers are honestly I just think you have to follow the lead of most other halls of fame and get rid of the character class and just have this be about whether the players were among the best at baseball or not. And then you're not necessarily endorsing their character when you check the box, and that helps you avoid all sorts of sticky situations like Kirby Puckett, getting in and having a plaque and web page that say would a Greek guy. He is right before new reports reveal that maybe it wasn't such a great guy. And if you respect after all, what if Kurt Schilling had been elected when he first became eligible before most of the objectionable things he's said or tweeted? By the numbers, he should have been. He should have been on his first ballot. And then you'd have someone who's already a Hall of Famer saying all of these things that he said. And by the way, when you take out the character clause if you take it out, I don't mean you have to sweep all of these things under the rug or not talk about them like the museum is more than the Hall of Fame. You can have a place where you acknowledge the best players and then also have a place where you acknowledge their unsavory sides. And you just have an opportunity to talk about that because character is not part of the criteria that you're being judged by when you initially get in and really you're providing a greater service to your visitors into baseball history, maybe if you do present that complete picture because we already have sophisticated and easily accessible stats that can tell us with some certainty who are the most valuable players are we don't necessarily have to go solely by whose plaque is hanging in a room in upstate New York and I don't think bonds and Clemens and shilling are in any danger of being lost to history if they aren't inducted. Tell the story of baseball without them, but you can tell their stories without putting plaques of them in that room, both the good and the bad. So, oh, that said, deciding not to vote is still a decision that in theory could sway the results because by not casting a ballot. I am deciding not to hurt some players chances. And not to help other players chances. But there's no real way around that unless I leave the bbw, which could affect my ability to get access to games and players and bring that part of my job. As long as I'm in there, I'm going to be eligible to vote. So this is the best solution I could come up with. And I'm sure if you went back in the effectively wild archives, you could find instances of me saying that I would vote for this guy or that guy because I always assumed I would. And it's just that I guess a lot has changed since I got into the pbw ten years ago for one thing my hypothetical ballot became an actual ballot and a real ballot just felt different to me than the imaginary one for another. I just know more than I used to. And for a long time, I wasn't aware of some of these character concerns, and even if I had been aware of them, I might not have weight them as heavily as I do now. I think there's been a broader evolution and how society views these things and certainly how the sport for you stuff. I mean, there wasn't even an MLP domestic violence policy until 2015. So that's changed. And my thinking on these things is shifted also. So I don't know, when some of these things came up in the effectively well Discord group the other day, someone invoked the quote from war games, a strange game, the only winning move is not to play. And I don't know if this is a winning move. I don't feel like I'm winning anything, but it's just the move I felt least uncomfortable with, ultimately. And as it happens, I don't think my vote were non vote would make much of a difference according to the latest projection I saw showing Clemens and bonds have zero chance to this year. I know there may be doing better than it appears because of the public ballots, but historically speaking, they always do fireworks on the ballots that come out later that are anonymous. And so if you use those past voting patterns to project as Jason Elle does on Twitter, I think he's acknowledged to have had the most accurate model..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"kurt schilling" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"And you're giving him greater credibility, maybe in the minds of the public and with shilling. I mean, he is someone who is repeatedly expressed some interest in running for political office. He is a political commentator, fancy himself as one. And so, you know, to be able to say, oh, I'm a Hall of Famer, who knows if that enables his efforts in some ways. And yet, I have a hard time just kind of carving out shilling alone as character clause because once you break the seal on the character class and you say that you're off the field actions that did not impact your on field actions, have some bearing on how fame voting. And according to the rules, they're supposed to, right? I mean, you are supposed to consider character according to the instructions. Now, the character clause, which I believe has existed since the 1940s and was largely ignored because it was seen as sort of subjective and vague and it is. And then suddenly I think when some of the steroid era players showed up on the ballot, a lot of people realized, oh, we have the character class. Here's how we can keep them out. And it just became a justification there. On the other hand, like maybe the character was should have been taken more seriously all along. You know, and so there are multiple perspectives here and obviously there's kind of a larger cultural conversation about who we make statues of and who statues we want to stand. And represent the epitome of people who should be valued in society and maybe there are things that earlier voters should have considered when they were ignoring the character clause. And maybe that is a useful corrective to the voting process. Now. But if I were to exclude Kurt Schilling on the basis of the things that he has said and done, it would be tough for me. I don't know if I could in good conscience say Kurt Schilling's character keeps him out, but not all of these other guys not Barry Bonds. Can I really say that Kurt Schilling should be out, but not Barry Bonds? I mean, if you read about the things that Barry Bonds was accused of and forget the PED stuff for the moment. But I'm talking about the domestic violence allegations from both his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend and I won't get into specifics here, but I'll link to some stories for anyone who wants to read the details. It is pretty horrifying stuff. The things that those women have said that Barry Bonds did. And I think because those things came to light decades ago, they did not get the attention that they would get today. I was not really even aware of them when I first followed Barry Bonds and obsessed over his stats and everything. It just wasn't really something I was aware of or thinking about. But now, just imagining what would happen if a player like bonds were to have those things come to light. I mean, we've seen some similar situations. And obviously the perception of those things in the way that they are treated has completely changed and for the better. I mean, there was no MLB MLB PA domestic violence suspension policy back end. And now there is. And that is obviously a overdue and welcome change. And so along those lines, I think a similar change is that, well, yeah, you have to talk about that as part of his legacy too. So forget about these guys like being jerks to reporters or teammates at times. That is serious stuff. And so if there are voters who said, well, I'm switching from voting for Omar viscal to not voting for Omar vizquel because of the things that came to light about him. I don't know how you can do that and not also apply that to bonds specifically. And there are others. But bonds, I mean, you know, and then again, as I said, once you break the seal, and once you say, okay, well shilling, he has crossed the line enough that he doesn't get in. Well, can I really say that what shilling has done is worse than what this guy or that guy has done and then suddenly if I'm excluding some what would be inner circle players like Roger Clemens and Kurt showing, I believe are the top two jaws pitchers who are not currently in the Hall of Fame and obviously bonds and a rod would be up there too in many Ramirez as well among position players. So then, if you end up with a situation where it's like, you know, you're excluding some of the very best baseball players of all time, then you get back to, well, is there even a purpose to this anymore? You know, you're in the room with the plaques and you're walking around and you're saying these are the best baseball players ever and some of the best baseball players ever are clearly not there, then what does that mean exactly for the whole exercise? Yeah. I mean, it's a hard question. I mean, I will have to deal with some version of this. I'm sure when I get a ballot, I think that the idea that platforming shilling presents a conundrum that is in some ways different than the others you have on the ballot. I don't think that that's an easy way out. I think that there is something to that. Maybe he doesn't want to show up now because he has to be taken off the ballot. Right, he has to be removed from the ballad and the BBW said no, but I guess if you wanted to skirt the issue sort of or just avoid the difficult part of this decision. Well, he doesn't want to be in it anyway. So that makes my decision easy. Yeah, but then I think that you're right that there is a question about why what about bonds would make him different? What about clemons would make him different, you know? And you're right that there's the PD part of stuff, but there's also the here's how these dudes have treated real people. Do we look at the career in coaching that bonds had after he was done playing as a sign that he has cleared some important bar? Is that actually dispositive or does that actually counterbalance some of the other concerns in his past? I don't know. I agree with you that it does seem. It seems really weird to try to tell the story of baseball without some of these guys, but I do think that we get to point to, I don't know, wanting to do right by the current by the game as it stands now and say that this isn't good for baseball either. I don't know how you balance those things. Yeah, and they're cheaters and abusers and racists and so on who are already there. And as you said, we don't have to be bound by those who know your standards, but if we're saying, okay, we're drawing the line here, then do we say, well, those earlier inductees, they should now be removed, the way that certain statues have been removed. That's a thorny separate discussion, obviously. But if you're saying that these people are not worthy of veneration, given our current societal values, then should we not apply that retroactively? This is where this becomes a bigger discussion than just the baseball part of it. And I guess you could say that, well, maybe we no longer need the plaque part of the Hall of Fame the way we once did. Because we have stats now, right? When the Hall of Fame was created, there was no baseball encyclopedia, like you couldn't even look up stats all that easily. And people didn't get to see these players. And you couldn't look up highlights and there was no war leaderboard. And there was no jaws leader board. Not that I'm saying that you should always just vote party wine, you know, straight down the ticket, jaws and war approved candidates..
WTOP
"kurt schilling" Discussed on WTOP
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990 The Answer
"kurt schilling" Discussed on 990 The Answer
"Hope you'll check it out each and every day. Meanwhile, the other news over the weekend heading into the weekend. Um Not sad, necessarily, Although I don't know the way their Eagles fans responding on Social media may be sad. I don't I find just more confusing. I look, I'm not a I can't judge. I don't know. I've no idea. I've never coached football team and I can't judge this man. I have no idea. None zero. So maybe he'll be stellar. But I do find I must say mark for Zeta. The way the Eagles are pushing. Nick Syriani as head coach on social media is the strangest thing I've ever seen. What are they doing? Um You know, Chris Marie in school and your book report due and you totally forgot about it. You didn't read the book, but I still gotta do the book report Class presentation. Yes. I don't know what the Knicks Syriani press conference was. He didn't read the book. You never read the cliff notes He thought that was due next week. Um, it wasn't good on look, I know it's one press conference, and I know the man going into the a job that he's Ever had before the head coach of the national football team. He was an offensive coordinator on Frank, right. We talked about weeks ago, but he didn't call place. Uh, when he got asked to describe his scheme It was It was like This'll guys, at least played Madden right on like PlayStation. They're usually played the video game. It was so bad and you know, you and I were public speakers. That's what we do, and we know that the number one fear of everyone ever is public speaking. But you can't help but think for a second Chris when he's on the sideline. And there's 15 seconds left in the game, and he's got to call the right place at the right time. You mean to tell me the guy at the podium with all the time in the world who couldn't do it was struggling, left and right to put a sentence together is to tell Carson Wentz or Jalen hurts whoever their starting quarterback is next year. Hey, this is the play work in a call right now, and you expect him to be convincing in that moment that that's what scared me the most about that about that, Prescott. But here's one thing we do know coming out of it. There will be a quarterback competition going into camp. This coming season. So you don't believe the notion that he was brought into some sort of Carson winds? Patsy that he's just He's a Carson wins acolyte and suck up and they're just here to prop up Carson wins. Here's what I believe. Believe there's going to be a competition. I do believe that like in boxing us and knock out the champion, you can't win on a on a decision. You know what I mean? Um No. I think Carson was his income into this as the champion as the guy that the front office is rooting for. And basically Jalen hurts would have to go in there and absolutely in a metaphorical sense Knockout. Carson went well beyond the shadow of doubt. It's gotta be a at the latest, the third round knockout. You know what I mean to solidify himself as the starting quarterback and This has happened in fairly recent eagles history. And I know a lot of people don't like going back to this, but Michael Vick versus Nick Foles in the first year of Chip Kelly. People thought that because Mike Vick was the more mobile quarterback because Chip Kelly ran it up, temp assistant was giving Michael Vick no problem. Nick Foles was terrible. That preseason. Mike Vick was great. That preseason that was an unquestioned victory from Mike Vick went into the season is the starter and then holding that have taken over a couple of weeks in and then had the 27 touchdown to interception year with absolutely real. But there will be a legend Quarterback competition as far as Jalen Hurts, and Carson Wentz go moving forward because Carson went with all the money that's tied up to him. Right now. It's simple. Business is simple Numbers. You would if you invested that much into somebody or something, no matter what it is. You want to make sure you get the most bang for your buck. Carson went I think will be the starting quarterback. When the season starts like we talked about a couple of weeks ago, there is a better version of Carson went that I think we we should all know is there but I don't think you'll get back that 2017 status. They'll have the edge going into training camp. But whoever whoever wins that competition will be the starter going forward. I do think about the car's marked the bizarre. I mean, I just very quickly the instagram posts from the Eagles of of Syriani at Mount Union Asses wide receiver. What What is that? What is that communicating? Look, look at him as wide receiver at a D three school in college. What about communicating? What is that message supposed to be? I don't know, I think because he's so young, the only the only younger coach was picked for meal. I believe by a couple of months in Eagle history, is it And you are we supposed to be excited about his youth? Is that there thing Well, I think they're trying to mask you. What they're trying to do is master the in experience that comes along with youth. And as you know, there's some people are just with kids, and they're good from get go. I don't know I didn't graduate college when I was 12. Well, I can't speak to that. Um, but when it comes next Syriani and the Eagles putting all that out I like it, too. When you when you have your resume in high school, and you have your resume in college when you have your resume, you know as an adult right as a real adult going out in the world. Maybe it's a good idea to take off the fact that you were sixth grade home room representative like nobody cares about that part of it. You're like, I guess I would want to see footage of him, you know, having sideline conversations with other notable figures in the NFL or something, even if he wasn't you know, I know there's not a lot of sexy footage of him in the NFL on the sidelines. But wouldn't you know? I got brother see old training camp footage of him with other teams, then Mount Union footage for heaven sakes. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. There was one thing circulating from Colt's training camp. I think it was Where he seemed like a guy with conviction. The guy that was owning the ground he was standing on, and I was like, Okay, let's let's get this guy a shot. Yeah, And then then the introductory press conference. Forget about it. Mark far better with us. We've got to run, but I wanted to quickly ask you just a couple of baseball related stories. Locking up real Moto with the Phillies Big deal right? That was huge for Phillies fans and also just the past again on the shilling. Like is that I don't know where you stand with. That thing is that I always hear some people say whether they like shilling in his politics and kind of what he's becoming a private in the private sector. If you will. You can't take away his baseball career. Where do you stand on those two things quickly is a baseball guy real quick. They see real music couldn't be more excited. Well worth every penny. They're giving them. They had to get him after you moved on. From 60 Sanchez last year and plus, if you get the best catcher in baseball for years to come, you get the best catcher in baseball years to come. Kurt Schilling is the single best postseason picture I've ever seen in my entire life used first breaker. He obviously one with the Red Sox. And then before that, the one with the Diamondbacks. Incredible. Syriza, Hold one. Still, the best World Series I've ever watched against the diamond are coming back to take you as far as politics go the minute and athletes starts talking about politics. I start thinking Okay, now you're made. Now It's not about throwing a baseball 95 MPH. Now you're like me where you just have an opinion..