I actually sort of like Curt Schilling, even though he’s a winger. Anyone who hates Boston Globe sportswriters that much can’t be all bad. I just hope he knows what when Republican Senators talk about “pitching” and “catching”, they may not be talking about baseball.
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aimai
Arg. That fucking moron. It needed only this. I’ll never forgive him for publicly backing Bush and essentially telling his blue state fans that they were all traitorous scum. (At least that’s how I remember it).
aimai
ricky
I actually sorta like Jonah Goldberg. Anyone who hates Hitler as much as he does can’t be all bad.
Do I have the logic down?
Lyle4
I was willing to name my first born child Curt for about 3 weeks in 2004. It was a moment of weakness due to being deliriously high on happiness and Sam Adams for days on end.
I snapped out of that fast.
Glyph_2112
Can we see his birth certificate? I think he may actually be a dominican, sent here to infiltrate our beloved pasttime and then worm that into a political carreer.
In fact, I really think that every member of congress should produce their birth certificates.
Heck, Bush couldn’t even produce his service record.
Demo Woman
I read that he is a registered independent so could not run as a Republican. It’s to late to change his affiliation. Of course, we all know who is in office after running as an independent.
ricky
These damn Republicans will stoop so low as to wave the bloody sock?
Matt
Schilling’s a wanker and has been since he was with Philly. It’s always about him, him, and him. Actually, combine his ego with knowing nothing about anything, and he would fit right in as a Senator. Maybe he’s on to something.
ricky
When will the racist underpinnings of Red Sox Nation admit that without drug enhanced Afro-Latino hitters, they would still have nothing on Cub fans?
Ryan
@Ricky
I prefer, “Anyone who likes World of Warcraft as much as Curt can’t be all bad”.
Sloth
That is exactly what he did. Made me want to punch the TV.
Doubt he’d have a snowball’s chance.
General Winfield Stuck
Curt Shilling is a putz. That is all.
Donna
hah, this is Massachusetts, he doesn’t have a chance in hell.
dr. bloor
@ricky:
When will the racist underpinnings of Red Sox Nation admit that without drug enhanced Afro-Latino hitters, they would still have nothing on Cub fans?
The Chicago Cubs: We Can’t Even Dope Right.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
ex-jock wingnuts are the worst kindFormer actors and ex-jock wingnuts are the worst kindBusiness executives, former actors and ex-jock wingnuts are the worst kindPreachers, business executives, former actors and ex-jock wingnuts are the worst kindawwww screw it. They’re all evil ‘tards, every last one of them.
Tim in SF
Seriously. Listen to The Instance podcasts, numbers 101 or so through 110. Curt makes an appearance in most of them, co-hosts a couple of them. He seems like a nice guy, but this was TED KENNEDY’S SEAT and it should not go to a conservative.
Betsy
@ricky:
HA!
satby
Ummm, isn’t Charlie Pierce a Boston Globe sportswriter?
Sputnik_Sweetheart
Arg, I’m from Boston and why do you hate me so much that you would wish Curt Schilling on me? The guy is such a jerk.
Morbo
@aimai: He also thinks Ann Coulter is intelligent.
And as long as you’re making innuendos, wouldn’t the full version of this title be “In for a Schilling, in for a pound?”
Chinn Romney
I’ve been away awhile, looking for extra wives. What happened to the edit widgets?
Ricky my man, even w/o our Juiced Dominicans we would still have a handful of Pennants to wave at you and your goat.
DougJ
And as long as you’re making innuendos, wouldn’t the full version of this title be “In for a Schilling, in for a pound?”
Yeah, I guess so.
Ed in NJ
Well, he’s a douche and an idiot (we call them Massholes down here), so he’s the perfect Republican candidate. Alas, he’s also not registered as a Republican and therefore not eligible to run.
Would have been nice to have him on the ticket to guarantee a Democratic victory.
Jay B.
Would have been nice to have him on the ticket to guarantee a Democratic victory.
I’ll guarantee it no matter who runs on the Republican side. The ONLY semi-serious Republicans in Mass who are left will run for the far-more-attainable Governor’s seat.
Batocchio
He’s a gamer, so that’s one point in his favor. Although won’t that disqualify him from running for office as a Republican? They don’t like anyone having fun without their permission.
He should pick up a mistress. That would help.
shirt
How ’bout this: Change the law so an independent can run as a republican with party leader consent if the governor can appoint a caretaker senator
At the very least we’ll learn if republicans really do eat their babies.
BongCrosby
In all fairness, with Jim Bunning retiring, the Senate will be short one crazy wingnut Hall of Fame former pitcher.
I think it’s a quota thing.
JK
Schilling is precluded by law from running, because under Mass law you need to be registered as a Dem or Repub something like 90 days prior to primary day. He’s currently registered as a an Independent.
As a Red Sox fan, I’m grateful for Schilling helping to eliminate the Yankees in the postseason 2 times.
He should stay the hell out of politics. I can’t support a Republican, regardless of my feelings for the Red Sox.
Clutch414
Fuck Curt Schilling and his ketchup-stained sock.
Jay B.
As a Red Sox fan, I’m grateful for Schilling helping to eliminate the Yankees in the postseason 2 times.
While 2004 should count as two, it’s really only been once.
burnspbesq
@Morbo:
Ann Coulter is intelligent. You don’t do well at Cornell and Michigan Law if you’re not.
What she is, is deeply misguided.
bayville
As a lifelong Phillies fan, I can attest that when he wasn’t pitching, Schilling was one of the biggest douches in recent sports history.
Once the cameras went black and reporters turned off their recorders, Schilling was a prick.
Nobody on the ’93 Phillies team (that won the pennant) had any use for Schilling – then or now.
“Schilling had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we all developed a keen sense of fraternity…Kruk hated Schilling, Mitch hated Schilling, Fregosi hated Schilling, and this hatred brought us together.”
PartyLikeIts1990
Maybe Curt Schilling could take a break from his douchebaggery to give us some insight about why Glenn Back hasn’t even bothered to deny what more and more people are suspecting just might be the truth: that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
Linkmeister
@BongCrosby: That’s what Will Bunch said at Attytood. Although he qualified it further by adding “Phillies” to the list.
demkat620
@Matt: Agreed. Go ask John Kruk what he thinks of Schilling.
Curt’s a dick and always has been.
ricky
@Chinn Romney:
I don’t like peanuts, crackerjacks, Harry Caray or the Cubs.
I do like goat. Young goat. Not the kind the fellow from Slate favors. The cabrito kind.
klown shoes
who took more balls in the chin – Yogi Berra or Rock Hudson ????
LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Cat Lady
He lives 5 minutes from me. Do you want me to TP his house!
Cat Lady
Punctuation fail.
ricky
@BongCrosby:
Nolan Ryan almost ran for Commissioner of Agriculture in Texas. If he had we would have gotten rid of the insufferable Jim Hightower and cut Rick Perry off at the pass while he was still a pissant Aggie democrat back bench House member in the Legislature.
BongCrosby
@Linkmeister:
Jeez. When I wrote my comment, I *thought* it was original.
You can’t really cry plagiarism if someone else writes something *before* you, can you? :-)
This does nothing for my ego.
AhabTRuler
@Cat Lady: Yeah, except these days TP’ing a house is considered an act of terrorism. You end up in
GuantanamoBaghram AB.JWW
Dougj,
If this were my first time reading your post, I would think you were an idiot. But being a return customer, you have once again confirmed it.
Who cares what the party affiliation is? The real point would be new blood in the government. It takes at least one term maybe two before the fangs of corruption to sink in.
You only care about an R or D, you of course are a D(L), not in the slightest open minded, nor do you care about the paychecks that bought politicians collect at your own expense.
Each side has good ideas, the problem is they no longer have to work together because they spend to much time looking for gold instead of looking at the mirror of a better nation.
You are one of those fools.
I’m a register R yet I have voted D for the last 10 years for the mayor of San Antonio.
You vote for what you want or what’s best, not because your bound by affliliaton. You know nothing of Curt Schilling, that is obvious.
Sloth
All kidding aside, while the guy isn’t super likely as a Senator, I’m not thinking I’d TP Schilling’s house on a bet.
I mean, shit, someone might think you were a Yankees fan or something.
joe from Lowell
Schill stood up to local talk radio wingnut racists Dennis and Callahan when they were badmouthing Obama, saying he was a good and decent leader, and that he would be voting for him (!) if it weren’t for the fact that John McCain was in the race.
Savage Henry
The GOP “pitching and catching” remark my be the best thing you’ve written Dougj. High comedy!
Cat Lady
@joe from Lowell:
Schilling and Red Sox nation are now in equilibrium. Schilling isn’t going to be the next Jack Kemp, and Red Sox nation isn’t going to get another Game 6 in this lifetime.
That said, Dennis and Callahan will always be meatheads.
Kilkee
Very simple. Schilling is an egotistic dick, who somehow thinks that bloody sock/World Series = Senator. This is Massachusetts,doufuss, not Tennesee. Guess again.
Anne Laurie
@ricky:
Soiled socks of one sort or another are kind of the modern Republican standard, I believe.
(As in the old meaning of the term, when ‘standard = flag’.)
Elliott
Lifelong redsox fan here, and I’d kick his fucking dead ankle in a heartbeat over politics.
Schilling’s a bitch.
Batocchio
This is my new favorite “bullshit delivered with a mixed metaphor.” Fine satire!
BruceK
As a Yankee fan, I was willing to tip my cap to Schilling no matter how badly the knife was twisting in my guts after the end of that horrific collapse.
Right up until he told people to vote for Shrub. I’d bought two copies of High Heat Baseball to support his charity; as soon as I can get my own radar range and those CD-ROMS onto the same continent, I’m still gonna microwave those discs. And my must-bring list for Cooperstown thence and always includes a bottle of Clorox and a box of Fab.
I have to believe that Massachusetts voters are smart enough that voting for him would be a Bad Idea. (I have forlorn hopes that they’d be more inclined to vote in Bucky Dent.)
charles pierce
If I had to bet – which I never do, of course — I’d say that Curt will still be “mulling” this race when they count the votes next January. For two reasons:
1) If he runs, he could lose.
2) If he runs, he could lose to…a girl.
Arakasi
I do have to give Schilling credit for keeping Advanced Squad Leader alive when Hasbro bought Avalon Hill. Beyond that, I haven’t seen any sign that he is qualified to be senator, other than “Hey, I’m famous”
If that is all the qualification needed, why don’t they run Mr. T? You have to admit that this would be the most entertaining senatorial election in the history of the United States – I would give it two weeks before he’s shouting: “Stay in milk! Drink your drugs! Don’t do school!”
Dresslar
Curt may want to get some input from Lynn Swann on this one.
And, you, Doug, may want to consider in-patient counseling.
nipsip
When you know you are going to meet members of the press after you have hinted about running for Senate in MA, you do not show up wearing a NY Giants football jacket.
Proof positive that all you need to make $10MM a year is a 95mph fastball.
Autozubeh
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.