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September 04, 2007
Forbes On Schilling
From Shilling Schilling -
Curt Schilling has been named one of the ten most despised athletes in sports. Columnists criticize the Boston Red Sox pitcher as a mouthy, attention-getting self-promoter who brags about his work ethic and uses TV, radio and the Web to hold forth on everything from steroid use to the Iraq War and his support for President Bush.
Schilling recently was branded a "politician" and a "hypocrite" by steroids whistle-blower Jose Canseco, the former Oakland A's slugger. In the late '90s, when Schilling pitched for the Phillies and publicly lamented their lameness, the team's general manager countered: "He's a horse every fifth day and a horse's ass the other four."
"That's followed me ever since," Schilling wrote recently on his blog, 38pitches.com, complaining it "was taken to be a fact."
"Curt's a blowhard," says Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy. "There just seems to be this insatiable need to be told how great he is."
In a Yankees fan's perfect dream world, the Yankees win the Wilcard this season, and win the ALDS to face the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS. It goes to Game 7 - and Schilling is pitching at Fenway for the Sox - and the Yankees score 7 runs in 4 innings off Curt...chasing him from the game...where the Yankees win in the end, by a score of 10-2 (and advance to the World Series).
OK, a guy can dream, can't he?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at September 4, 2007 12:50 PM
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I loved playing the Mortal Kombat video game when I was in college, I used to love the scenes when you'd enter a cheat and you can rip out the heart of your opponent and watch him wither down to his knees, as you are standing there with heart in hand and arms raised as you won the match.
Man, I miss college...
Well my dream is a little bit more twisted than yours, Steve. Playing off of my love of Mortal Kombat, ARod rips a line drive off of the big Blowhard's head and because it was hit so hard it ends up being a homerun after it hits the top of the left field foul pole - it never hits the ground. At the time the bases are loaded and when ARod finishes rounding the bases he runs to the pitching mound and delivers the final blow on the Big Schill, he rips out his heart and shows it to the 55,000+ at the stadium as they all go wild.
BTW, in my dream the Yanks win 27 - 6 in 5 innings because the Red Sox refuse to go back out in the 6th.
~~~OK, a guy can dream, can't he?~~~
Some might say your dream is much nicer than mine, but mine is more memorable.
Posted by: Garcia ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 4, 2007 01:22 PM
Personally, I'd like to see your scenario Steve - except swap out Red Light for Dice-K.
Posted by: SMinDC at September 4, 2007 04:17 PM
~~~Personally, I'd like to see your scenario Steve - except swap out Red Light for Dice-K.~~~
Only if Schilling then gets to lose Game 6!
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at September 4, 2007 04:19 PM
6 games? 7 games? Doesn't a nice sweep of Beckett, Matsuzaka, Wakefield (nothing personal), and Schilling sound better?
Posted by: JeremyM at September 5, 2007 12:26 AM
I've got no beef with Matsuzaka. I'm coming to dislike Beckett almost as much as Schilling lately, though. I like when Wakefield pitches--the Yankees like him :)
Posted by: snowball003 at September 5, 2007 08:26 AM