He enjoys the repartee. But as his show unfolds — and the number of people watching on Periscope drops into double digits — it's jarring to think he's not far removed from appearing on national broadcasts for ESPN. The network hired Schilling in 2010, and paid him $2.5 million a year. "My guess is that, if you'd asked the baseball operations people back then, many of them would have said they thought he was the best analyst they had," Stark says.