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• Get Ready For More Curt, Boston. There are certain people who are allowed to use the first-person plural possessive in blog entries. For some, it works. Curt Schilling is not one of those. From Schilling's 38 Pitches:
Talks with the Red Sox are moving. Theo and I have spoken multiple times daily over the past week and given the current situation I am feeling very confident that we will be able to finalize a 1 year contract to allow us a chance to finish our career as members of the Red Sox organization.
Schilling went on to say:
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
My question: If Schilling already wrote farewell notes to all his teammates, should he be allowed back? My vote is no.
• Mets Will Take A Pass, Probably. The Mets have no real interest in Alex Rodriguez, according to Newsday. More likely is a push for Jose Contreras, Joe Blanton or Carlos Silva (better pitching? What a concept). But according to the New York Daily News, the Mets are making a big push for A-Rod. Hmm. [Newsday]
• Old Money. Yes son, we live in a country where a 42-year-old pitcher can make $10 million on a one-year contract. Greg Maddux will be back with the Padres for that amount, and unlike Clemens, he'll probably actually make a difference. Maddux will be joined in the lineup, of course, by Barry Bonds.* [ABC News]
• Escape From New York. Boy, now that George Steinbrenner is no longer totally in charge, it's just a giant conga line out the back door of Yankee Stadium. Next to diss the team: Andy Pettitte. [Pinstripe Alley]
* = May not be joined by Bonds.
Comments
Please no more Schilling. I can't take him anymore.
Sell him to Japan. Just get him as far away from Boston as possible.
if only curt would tell me which way i should vote next fall
There are few people in this world that I would rather hit in the face with a brick than Curt Schilling.
Not like the Pirates named a new manager or anything. Guess that will wait for the Spring Training Daily Closer.
Oh Christ. Let's just make it easier for everyone. Schilling comes to camp overweight, gets hurt, then Clay Bucholz gets to pitch. This frees up more time for Schilling to finally finish that project where video cameras follow his every move and simulcast it on the interwebs.
I hate his politics and wish he'd just shut up sometimes, but I'm sure as hell not going to complain about getting him in the back end of the rotation for another year.
Also, I think he's almost licked that pesky Lou Gehrig's disease.
@DeMeco Shall Inherit The Earth: Wow, a brick...I just wanted to hit him with some soft poo.
Mitch Williams wears a towel to cover his head and cowers in anticipation of the next Curt Schilling blog entry.
@Camp Tiger Claw: Agreed.
@TheStarterWife: What are the Pirates?
No Pettite ? No problem. The Yankees still have Pavano ready for that huge season we've all been waiting for.
/crying tears of rage
@TheStarterWife: Neal Huntington was probably shot down by John Farrell in the rebuild Olympics.
Maddux is a bargain at $10 mil.
@TheStarterWife: Hey if Deadspin starts covering AAA baseball news it's going to set a very time-consuming precendent.
@DeMeco Shall Inherit The Earth: But there are but a few bricks that would be up for such an awe-inspiring task.
You may have won the war Red Sox Nation but you lost this battle.
"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"
Curt Schilling is channeling Gary Busey.
ahh yes... the familiar post-season tale that is the NY media war... who can be more wrong?? every year the rags break new boundaries.
@TheStarterWife: From the PG: Russell's team, The Lynx finished 55-88, the 55 victories being the lowest in the International League. They were last in the league in runs scored (553), home runs (59) and team earned run average (4.77).
"But when I was there in August, John still had his team getting after it and competing with nothing to play for."
Yep. He's perfect for the Buccos.
@Summer-of-George: How about a brick covered with soft poo.
@preciousroy: The Norfolk Tides are offended by your characterization of Pittsburgh as a AAA team...
If the Mets want better pitching, why do they have interest in THOSE pitchers? Is Dave Dravecky away from his phone?
@TheStarterWife: The Daily Closer is for coverage of major league teams.
@preciousroy: As a Pirates fan and as one who despises hackneyed jokes: Bite me.
Mark my words, milkshake boy, the Buccos, under the leadership of John Russell, will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and ... have a 16th consecutive losing season.
Screw you guys who posted similar things while I was on the phone.
@PeteJäyhawk™: Zing.
@DeMeco Shall Inherit The Earth: John Elway, Mike Sweeney (for telling me how evil stem cell research is while spending most of the earl 2000's with a needle in his ass, not just for ruining my baseball team) and Art Modell (dead or alive)deserve bricks to the dome before Gun Toting Red Neck Shilling.
@Tuffy: No, he's just tired of holding it between his head and shoulder.
Next up to diss the Yankees? Yep, you guessed it...Frank Stallone.
@Sarcastro: Hackneyed? I'll have you know I spent a good solid half-second on that joke.
@HIV 2 Elway: Of players on the Red Sox who could be qualified as Gun Toting, I'd rank Schililng far behind: Mike Timlin, Josh Beckett, Jonathan Paplebon, and Tim Wakefield. (Just to name pitchers)
@Gary the No Trash Cougar: You also could mention the samurai sword wielding pitchers.
@Gary the No Trash Cougar: Just when I thought I couldn't hate a team anymore...
@preciousroy: Don't mind me, I'm just bitter because I still like the Pirates.
@TheStarterWife: @Sarcastro: Didn't even know Jim Tracy ahd been fired.
/Totally not kidding in the least
@HIV 2 Elway: I think you needed to hit the spacebar somewhere in there.
@Gary the No Trash Cougar:
Yeah, but Wakefield's a lousy shot because the bullet jumps around on him.
The Mets are going to get A-Rod, trade Delgado while picking up a substantial portion of his salary and move Wright to first.
Jose Contreras =/= better pitching.
I guess the Indians resigning Paul Byrd and picking up Joe Bo's option in pursuit of that pennant doesn't mean anything.
Daily Closer, yay!
I am The Ladies... resident Schilling apologist, so I'll be the first to say CURT COME BACK TO THE PHILLIES I MISS YOU ALSO THE BABY IS YOURS AND PLEASE CUT IT OUT WITH THE NERD TALK.
@UkraineNotWeak: Does A-Rod really have the ova to stay in the New York market?
What an odd switch from singular to plural in Schilling's post. It's like he thinks there's a single part of himself that's the "agent" part and that represents the "baseball player" part. I'm a little weirded out.
@Johnny Foodstamps:
He was a Met fan as a kid and if he went to the Mets and they won the WS, it would be a big FU to the Yanks.
@Doyle_McPoyle: Or so the Germans would have us believe.
@TheStarterWife: @Sarcastro: You know, as a Pirate fan, I support the media lack of coverage for the team. Until ownership actually shows they care about winning at all, they don't deserve to be discussed. Sarcasto - cure for bitterness - throwing trash on Tommy Maddux's lawn. It's like praying to St. Roche - never been known to fail...
@Gary the No Trash Cougar: Timlin scares the bejesus out of me. He looks like the kind of guy where if you look at him wrong in a bar, suddenly there are chunks of your kids strewn all over your driveway....
@preciousroy: No shame in that, really. I mean, the Pirates are relevant to me because a) apparently I'm mentally ill for giving a shit b) I pay for part of a season ticket package and c) I embrace lost causes. I'd say you're pretty far ahead of the game.
I believe that I saw during the WS celebration in the locker room Schilling chewing a bunch of jelly donuts and spitting them into Pedroia's mouth just like in that SNL skit with the chick from ER.
The amount of fellatio in the posts on his website makes me nauseous.
Just read about it on ESPN. I'm not the biggest Schilling fan in the world, but I am one of the biggest Red Sox fans. I really think you should end your career in Boston. You deserve everything you get.
I nominate the brick covered in soft poo.
@TheStarterWife:
Any Pirate story without the words "Bonifay" or "Littlefield" is every bit as much as reason to rejoice as wiping the smile of that smug bastard Brian Billick's mug.
Dammit - Of course I comment about the Buccos and then get called into a meeting, missing all the mocking.