He brought me so much joy.

He lived about 20 minutes south of Green Bay and married a local girl.

2004 was an emotional year- got my ass kicked by two Yankee fans that summer. FIL died of cancer in September. Sox won it all in October.

Was so happy with the WS win, I bought a red rose for every person in our office.

Congrats, Big Papi.

You aren't pissed, Roger. You are misremembering.

Clemens and Bonds would have been for sure HOFers w/o the PED use...they didn't need to use them

Much deserved.

Very good at launching long shots.

Not so good at taking shots in the Caribbean.

=d>

Best Big Papi moment:

https://fb.watch/aMq-2Wrl6g/ 

Papi smiled.

And did PEDs.

So he's in.

Schilling is Big Papi on the mound.

Greatest post season pitcher of his era.

His numbers improved into October like none of his peers.

Schilling never did PEDs.

But he had some extreme tweets.

So he's not in.

The writers will point to the doll where Schilling hurt them.

The hall is a joke.

Nope.

This:

Congrats Big Papi.........well deserved

I’ve hated baseball writers for a long time. They’re petty little children who have a false sense of self worth.

Who the f--- do the "writers" think they are? Douchenozzles, all of 'em.

Not saying he's not, but not convinced it's obvious either.

Well behind several pitchers who did more for longer and never made it, but still a great pitcher.

This libturd fan would and did pay to see him play more than a few times. OK, some of the tickets were free. But I was a fan and admirer of his baseball skills. I can separate. Don't care what he believes nearly as much as if he had good command once every 5 days.

Other very unpopular fellers eventually made it in despite slipping under the stupid "character" requirement bar...Ty Cobb allegedly beat a Black guy to death! Schilling is hardly the first far right winger in baseball or any sport. And the writers have had their share as well.

Though I think there's no reason to compare them, Papi's name was leaked as testing positive for an undisclosed substance (lots of things that could have been) more than a decade before he retired

and he never tested positive again for anything for the rest of his career.

His numbers are very obvious. Schilling's are close.

But clear separation of the levels each was on.

=d>

Definitely top two…not two.

Schilling is merely mortal until the post season starts.

Nobody was better after 162 than he was during his career. No one.

Ask any Yankee fan during that time who powned them.

Eli Manning is in his respective HOF. He's crap in the regular season.

Playoffs and championships mean something.

Also, I luvs me some Big Papi.

But he tested positive as a cheater. The undisclosed substance would have been made known if it were not PEDs.

Schilling did the opposite. He was one of the few to pizz off other players by speaking out against roids.

He would be in the hall if some of the liberal writers didn't get their vajajay hurt.

No question about it.

interestingly enough, I think of him as well above average in the regular season, though not the guy you think of at all as the best in his 20 years. I think he even had several seasons losing more than he won.

Great in the post season. Tremendous. But like what...20 games? I don't really know. And so many pitchers before him for whom playoff appearances meant World Series or nuthin'. No ALCS, no Play-Ins or whatever else they call it. In another time, he would have had maybe 7 post season opportunities.

HoF is really more about the body of work over 20 years. Should Ted Williams be out cuz he was in 1 world series and didn't do well? Absurd, he may have been the greatest hitter evah.

So what do we tell Tommy John and Jim Kaat, both won more than 280 games! 280 should get you in.

Schilling was more in the class of really good, but borderline Hall guys like Hershiser, Vida Blue (who also won 3 WS titles I think), Jim Perry, even fricken Kevin Brown was comparable.

NFL Hall of Fame? Everyone gets in. Hey, I made it to the final 50 all the years I was eligible and, as you may know, my best season was freshman year of High School before I tore up my knee.