Joe Posnanski does an excellent job pointing out why Curt Schilling should not be in the Hall of Fame. Thing is, Posnanski thinks Schilling belongs in the Hall. I don't see it. The Hall of Fame is for great players. It's not the Hall of the Very Good.
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Where Schilling belongs, in the Hall, is a display or room called "Extraordinary Playoff Performances", or some such name. He managed to rise above other pitchers with his 2001 & 2004 NLCS/ALCS and World Series performances, but the overall career was not Hall of Fame caliber. As a personal aside, I find the whole what-hat-will-he-wear-at-his-acceptance-speech discussion to be stupid. Hardly any players are spending their entire careers in one city, so just let the guy choose and be done with it. It's not an insult to the franchise or the whole city if he doesn't pick your logo.
How many writers won't be influenced by the blood in the sock thing? He doesn't pitch, the Red Sox are done. Schilling is a mortal lock for the Hall of Fame. Besides, there are already plenty of guys in there who are arguably very good, not great.
By the way, are these 48-word posts a requirement of the Beacon Journal's evil Twitter strategy?
The guy campaigned for the worst pres. in U.S. history! He should be shot at dawn.
Schilling campaigned for James Buchanan? I did not know that.