After former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling called a t-shirt that advocated for the lynching of journalists “awesome,” Dan Shaughnessy said that he would no longer vote for Schilling on his Hall of Fame ballot this year.
Schilling acknowledged on Monday that Shaughnessy is not the only writer who has soured on his candidacy since the tweet.
Speaking with TMZ, he said that “scumbag” journalists would not have a problem with him if he had called for the lynching of President-elect Donald Trump instead of journalists.
“If I had said, ‘Lynch Trump,’ I’d be getting in with about 90% of the vote this year,” he said.