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August 25, 2005
Yanks Fan Buys Schilling Stuff
From SI:
Congress may not have solved baseball's steroid problem, but its hearings on the subject will do some good after all.
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling earned $2,000 for two charities by auctioning off the subpoena he received to testify at March's hearing alongside Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. Kevin Bronson, a New York Yankees fan and memorabilia dealer from Springfield, Mass., paid $2,200, including auction fees for the document and an autographed picture of the Boston ace.
"It's probably one of the more significant baseball documents of the new era of baseball," Bronson said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "I think in years to come it's going to be more significant."
Pull-ease. Now, if this was Raffy's subpoena, or McGwire's, then maybe I would agree that this fellow has something here. But, Schilling's subpoena? Big deal.
You've now got a piece of paper that brought cause for the Cliff Clavin of modern day baseball to once again flap his way-too-willing-to-open-yap and "bless" us with his I'm-the-only-one-who's-right-dribble.
That's not a cocktail napkin, er, subpoena, it's a cry for help.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at August 25, 2005 04:18 PM
Comments
I live in West Springfield.
Posted by: Patrick at August 25, 2005 11:18 PM
And you're a Yankees fan? There are at least two of you there, it seems!
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at August 26, 2005 12:07 AM
Well, I've been around a bit (born in Florida, lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Mississippi, as well). This is actually somewhat of a neutral area. Certain more Sox fans, it seems, but a bunch of Yankee fans, etc. Like, for instance, 99 is the official restaurant of the Red Sox, but they put YES on the TVs here. ;)
Posted by: Patrick at August 26, 2005 12:19 AM
Of course it's an important document. See what it takes to get Curt Schilling to talk: a Congressional Supeona. Or a microphone.
Posted by: rbj at August 26, 2005 02:27 PM