Curt we barely knew you
looks like we've seen as much of Curt Schilling as we're going to this season: none. Like Tiger Woods before him, he's announced that he's having season-ending surgery. Unfortunately, in Schilling's case, the prognosis is not necessarily as positive. Whatever happens, when you've been a dominant pitcher for 3 different teams, and have won championships with two of them, you've had a Tiger-like career.
We'll let Curt take it from here in his own blog...
Schilling has been a fine pitcher, but I have to take exception to comparing his career to Tiger Woods. Schilling did not change any dynamics in baseball. Crowds don't follow him around wherever he goes. The Red Sox are still going to be a huge draw without him. In fact, they won a title without him. Tiger attracts attention, while Schilling craves attention. Not the same thing. People view golf totally differently as a result of Tiger Woods. Not the case with baseball and Schilling. This will be known as the era of Tiger Woods, but I seriously doubt anyone will refer to the past 10 years as the era of Curt Schilling.
Schilling had a good run, but now it appears to be done. However, I'm sure we have not heard the last from him. He would be smart to get into the broadcast booth or network studio.
Posted by Tom Jenney on June 20, 2008 at 02:18 PM PDT #
Agreed, any implication that Curt was the Tiger of pitching was purely an attempt to milk the opening line. Nonetheless, hard to overstate his role in the Red Sox' transformation.
Here's a more thoughtful tribute from Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy (whose name I've probably already misspelled several times on our young site)
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/06/24/if_schillings_done_it_wont_be_as_much_fun/
Posted by Sean on June 24, 2008 at 07:25 AM PDT #