Schilling Gives Baltimore a Schillacking
This guy is clearly an idiot. He claims Doug Mirabelli told him that, which I just plain don’t believe. First, this announcer had no involvement with the Sox or the Yankees and shouldn’t be bringing this up. His motivation was to give the Orioles fans something to cheer and jeer about while their team was getting its ass kicked and the bullpen they spent nearly $10 million on was blowing a great start from the perpetually wild Daniel Cabrera.
Second, how could anyone argue that the Red Sox needed more PR during that series? At the time, they were going in to Yankee Stadium, still on the ropes, about to be eliminated after squeaking out 2 extra innings wins the day before (Technically, they both came on the same day if you recall). Everyone who watches baseball was watching this game - why did the Red Sox need MORE public relations support?
Third, just look at the pictures. Its not paint. It looks like blood. But didn’t we hear that a lot of the red stain was not just blood, but antiseptic that was put on the wound after surgery to help it heal?
I realize I am adding to the grand conspiracy here just by talking about this, but come on. Don’t make up stories and try to take away one of the greatest moments in Schilling’s career just becuase he’s kicking your team’s ass and you are bored.
Stumble it!
April 26th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Absolutely absurd…..very strange coming from Thorne (although it was Pedro Gomez and Bill Madden, as well as a GQ article that included an anonymous source from the 2004 team who first said Schil faked the blood) because he is a pretty good announcer (although he’s better at hockey). Now he is on my shit list.
All he needs to do is look at Schilling’s performance the year after to see that the surgery was real, and so was the truama around the ankle. His fastball isn’t as good as it used to be (as we saw on Friday night vs A-Rod), and he gained 50 pounds due to not being able to put weight on it properly, even to this day.
Plus, what does Mirabelli get for telling Thorne this “inside info”? Some PR for himself? More media attention to him for the wrong reasons? His manager and fellow teammates asking him questions about shit that doesn’t pertain to actual baseball? I can see someone like Pedro Martinez, who didn’t like Schilling in the first place (and blames him for the reason why the Sox didn’t resign him) to say something like for a benefit in justifying why he left Boston, but not Mirabelli (although I have heard from many people he is a prick as probably told Thorne a joke involving the sock and he took it out of context). He’d lose trust with not only Schilling, but also pitchers down the road as well as potential teams who might have interest when he becomes a FA. No one wants a rumor monger in the clubhouse (just ask A-Rod).
No matter how much of a Republican blowhard and media moth you think Schilling is, the sacrifice of pitching those two games (Game 6 in NY and Game 2 in the WS) have affected his baseball career, but he did so to get a ring for him and Red Sox Nation and in the end, that’s all that matters.
April 26th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
This is true - the guy is a new announcer just trying to get attention. Blood or no, Schilling played injured and won us the world series. Whether or not it was fake really doesn’t matter in the end anyway.
April 27th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Even though my boys are in the celler where Tampa Bay belongs each year, we will win the American league crown again you Red Sox fans! HA!