April 26, 2007
The Red Badge of Courage
The brouhaha over Curt Schilling's sock is heating up. We're still waiting for the man himself to chime in, but Baltimore broadcaster Gary Thorne, suggesting that Curt painted on fake blood, has really gotten the Sox to circle the wagons.
Dr. Bill Morgan performed the procedure, which fixed up Schill's ankle with toothpaste, popsicle sticks and duct tape, and said that he is utterly convinced that the blood was real.
Doug Mirabelli, who, being Italian knows never to take sides against the family, doesn't want any part of being labelled the squealer. "What? Are you kidding me? He's [expletive] lying. A straight lie. I never said that. I know it was blood. Everybody knows it was blood … I honestly don't know who Gary Thorne is."
Eventually, a lab team will certainly be dispatched to Cooperstown (where the sock (actually, a similar one - see comments below) hangs amongst relics such as Don Larsen's perfect-game cap and a 2002 Anaheim Rally Monkey). Hope they bring the kit they use on the Shroud of Turin.
Perhaps the best silver lining of all is the reaction in New York, where they're grumbling that this news puts the 2004 ALCS back in the public's collective mind. Like it ever left. Newsday reports that '04 Sox players Mike Myers and Johnny Damon will make remarks about the sock later today. Your chance of any hope at redemption 'round these parts is on the line, fellas.
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i hope we DON'T hear from "the man himself" about this. he shouldn't even dignify this with a response.
This is Curt Schilling. May as well hope that the tide doesn't come in tomorrow. I just hope Shaughnessy has the entire week off.
The infamous game 4 sock is not hanging in Cooperstown. The game 2 world series sock, however, is. From Mr. 38 Pitches himself (as posted on his blog):
Q-What happened to the ’sock’?
A-The first one, the one that had a lot of blood on it from game 4 was thrown in the dirty clothes after the game. I didn’t think to keep it. There was a lot going on and saving that nasty thing was not something that was on my mind. The second one, from game 2 of the World Series is in the Hall of Fame.