This is an interesting take on things. Curt Schilling had a pretty good career, but their was alway an argument over his worthiness for Cooperstown and the Hall of Fame.
Schilling ruffled some feathers when he insinuated that more than steroid use will keep a player out of the Hall. Schilling says he was snubbed for being a Republican.
Schilling hinted as much Wednesday in an interview with Boston radio station WEEI by suggesting that newly elected Hall of Famer John Smoltz got the necessary votes for induction because of his supposed Democratic leanings.
“[Smoltz] is a Hall-of-Famer. And I think the other big thing is that I think he’s a Democrat, and so… I know that as a Republican, that there’s some people who really don’t like that,” Schilling said.
Instead of challenging Schilling’s accusation, which ignores the fact that Smoltz donated money to Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012, one of the hosts ran with it.
“If you’d just said, ‘vote Kerry,’ you might be in the Hall of Fame right now,” he said, to which Schilling responded, “Absolutely.”