Curt Schilling
I know he's not around, and, sincerely, we hate to see anyone's career end on an injury. But
Shut up. Please. Please shut up. You talk too much. Remember a few years ago when he popped off on Lou Piniella, claiming Piniella no longer knows how the game is played? (This year's NL Central standings suggest otherwise.) That's just one of like a million things Schilling, right, has said over the years to newspaper reporters, on the radio, on TV
in his own blog! I swear, someday a
YouTube clip is going to show him rubbing ketchup on that, ahem, bloody sock. Okay, we get it, you had a cut on your foot. They're rich but act poor
For years, Red Sox fans bellyached about their rivals, the Yankees, and how much money the Yankees would spend on players. Well, you know what?
You guys are the Yankees, too. You win championships because you spend money. So don't act like you're the organization with all the sharp baseball minds who built through the draft and shrewd waiver-wire pickups with a tiny payroll. That's the Rays, not you guys.
Oh yeah, sure, Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, right, is a genius. It takes real brilliance to recognize that Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell are, uh, pretty good and we should write them a check from a limitless bank account. No, genius is trading away a player like Delmon Young for Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett.
[I don't really agree that they're the Yankees... I would never want any of those players to call themselves a Yankee. I'd rather eat ketchep all day long for five years. But they do need to shut up and stop complaining that they have no money. Hello, you've got the 2nd highest pay rolls in MLB, one spot behind the Yankees. Oh look... they're behind the Yankees once again! It must suck always being second...]