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Keep Baseball Boring

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Winter’s still here and spring training is barely underway. Let’s face it: most people aren’t paying attention to spring training. Sports writers are getting antsy. Once again, we get the annual complaint that baseball is too boring.

Nonsense. Keep baseball boring.
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Curt Schilling and the Hall of Fame

Curt Schilling

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When I started this blog, I said I might write about baseball. It’s even in the tagline: Wherein an Iowan writes about leftist politics, philosophy, and maybe baseball. The World Series is over, and late October is a great time for baseball. So, let’s talk about baseball. How about Curt Schilling?

Well, what about Curt Schilling?

Schilling played for the Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Boston Red Sox. He retired after the 2007 season at age 40. And since then, there’s been a raging debate in baseball circles over whether Schilling should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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