alz wrote:

The guy is a complete flamethrower, no doubt. I remember when they got him, I grabbed him in Fantasy ball (along with Strasburg, neither panned out).

He's definitely got the stuff to pitch the bigs.

Adding to the list of dominant pitchers, he doesn't catch a lot of credit, but there was a very long amount of time where Schilling was untouchable.

I was thinking about Schilling when I wrote my previous post in this thread, but when both of them were at their best, Johnson was more intimidating.
But my recollection is it was the other way around for the Cardinals. Without looking it up, it seemed like the Cards were always able to handle Johnson better than Schilling. Those two games Schilling threw against them in the 2001 LDS were epic.

alz wrote:

There was someone who was looking at schilling as a possible Hall of Famer, and I kinda laughed. He was good, but not that good! Turns out his career numbers look a lot like Bob Gibson's, and I just never bothered to notice what kind of a career he was putting together.

Johnson in my opinion was just unfair. So goddamned tall with those arms that about drug the ground. Sometimes it seemed like he was throwing from the damned first base line.

I looked it up. Schilling's career record against the Cards was 5-9, and Johnson's was 7-7. So I was wrong (Max, if you're out there, there you go). It just seemed to me when they were both with the Diamondbacks, Schilling was a bigger problem than Johnson was.
Like Gibby, Schilling gets bonus points for being nails in the playoffs. He's a self-important blowhard with an ego inversely proportional to his intelligence, but he could pitch, and he was at his best when it mattered most.