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May 09, 2006
Schilling Rips N.Y. Media
Via The LoHud Yankees Blog, I saw that Curt Schilling said -
"Most of the guys and gals that write here (in New York) are such horrific hacks anyway that that stuff doesn't. ... I mean, seriously, I've played in a couple of cities before coming to Boston and the dredge of the places that I played in respect to the media, the people who wrote there have left those cities and come here, and they write here now. If I could just pick out some of the guys and people that were just horrible writers and I thought bad people, the places that I played before I came to Boston, they all went to New York and are writing there now. ... they're just bad people."
What I wish, although it will never happen: The N.Y. media gives Curt the silent treatment. They just ignore him as if he was invisible.
That's the worst way to get to Schilling - take away his microphone.
And, if he tried to say something to me, I would literally look him in the face, say nothing, and then walk away.
There's no way, if he does well in New York (against the Yankees) that Schilling would not want to talk about it - especially to the local media. If you take that away from him, then he's a tree that fell in the woods when no one was there.
Come to think of it, even if he does poorly in the Bronx, this treatment might work. Walk right up to him, as if you're going to interview him, and say "Nah, there's nothing news-worthy here" and then walk away.
But, I know the writers need their stories to pay their bills. So, like I said, this will never happen. Too bad.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at May 9, 2006 04:43 PM
Comments
I think he's just mad because he's jealous of Leiter being able to call in on the air on WFAN, while he's relegated to that backwater we call Boston and its relatively puny media market...
It would be hysterical if a TV reporter asked him a question on camera, then both the reporter and camerman walked away as he began speaking.
Posted by: knuckles ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 10, 2006 09:33 AM
Given the NY Post's "Drop David" column, are you suprised at that accusation?
Posted by: Raf at May 10, 2006 10:05 AM
As much as I dislike Schilling and would love him to get the silent treatment, he does have a point. While I certainly don't know what its like in other cities, it does seem like we have our fair share of hacks over here that use their bully pulpit to pass along silly and/or wrong information. Mike & The Mad Dog are a good example. Lupica's another example. That fatso illiterate from the Post, Marc Berman, is another example.
Posted by: MJ at May 10, 2006 10:19 AM