If I had to pick one player in baseball that I really don't like, it wouldn't be Barry Bonds, it would be Kurt Schilling. He is always opening his mouth when no one cares what he has to say. To the point where he wrote an open letter to ESPN after the 9/11 attacks which led to his teammates mocking him on a the bus singing Yankee Doodle Dandy.
While Bonds alienates the media, Schilling uses it to push whatever his agenda, poloitical or otherwise, is. When he isn't pitching he is always trying to get his face in front of the camera to look good. But his teammates like him...every 5th day that is.
The most interesting story about Schilling this year were the reports that his bloody sock from the 2004 playoffs was doctored. Schilling had supposedly had a tendon sutured so that he could pitch in the playoffs, he did and the cameras kept focusing on how his ankle was bleeding and what a hero he was. But as one ex-teammate said it's funny how no one questioned why the stain never got bigger. Anyway, I told the sock I still thought it was number one when I came across it in the Hall.
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