Cite for Schilling:
Don’t know when he got there, but unless Yahoo’s breakdowns are wrong, he’s got it.
David Wells has 28 (still needs Rockies and Pirates), Nomo still has 29 (Dodgers) and Woody Williams still 29 (Cardinals - that’s doable for him).
Wow… I stand corrected re: Schilling. That’s really quite amazing. He only has 33 wins against the AL teams, but look at how they’re spread out - seven teams with one win apiece. Improbable to say the least, but as I said, quite amazing. (And kudos, since I just got the obvious ones!)
Oh, and since this is a convenient place (a Pit baseball thread), I have to say this:
This ESPN.com money-grubbing shit is really pissing me off, and has to stop (even though I realize there is no way that it will).
A year or two ago I would rarely read SI.com because they had almost no free articles to read, and I’d spend an hour each day on ESPN.com because they had tons of free articles by great columnists. Now, with Gammons going Insider recently, pretty much everyone in the main sports sections of ESPN.com is pay-to-read, plus all of their public chat transcripts and a bunch of other stuff. Now, I mean, it’s not THAT expensive, and I’ll probably get the stupid thing as soon as I get back to my broadband connection in the fall, but why the heck is ESPN making more content pay while SI is offering more and more quality free content at the same time? Plus, the whole time ESPN is making more and more of the content pay to read, they are using more and more ways to stuff advertisements into every possible nook and cranny of the site - it’s ridiculously intrusive even with pop-ups stopped, and often interferes with the content. And what the hell is with the splitting everything up into short tiny little pages that take longer to load on dialup than to read? What? More opportunities to divert my attention from the articles to the ads, you say, all the while screwing up any inherent formatting or flow of the articles? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Definitely shifting my loyalty as a rabid internet sports news devourer, and I can’t be the only one. Maybe I won’t get Insider after all and will try to find another way to satisfy the addiction.
I note that based on the Schilling numbers, postseason wins aren’t counted. Schilling has certainly played more than 7 October games if you were to count postseason, and that could make a difference here (Schilling bagged Toronto way back in 1993, for instance.)
I think postseason should count.