Curt Schilling Breaks Silence, Talks Shoulder, & More

Saint Schilling may be wearing the horns this spring. (NESN Screenshot)

Red Sox Nation can all breathe a large and collective sigh of relief, just when you thought all was going too good and tranquil with the Red Sox down in Fort Myers, along comes Curt Schilling to stir the pot up a bit. Schilling, never one to be shy to talk with the media, has been quiet as a mouse since it was learned that he had a shoulder that was more trashed then Paris Hilton in Vegas on a Saturday night at three in the morning. But alas, Schilling speaks, and it sounds as if he's butting heads with management in the political way Schilling does best.

Curt hand picked the reporters he talked with, which is a little suspect, and from there gave a "woe is me", "what's a guy to do" type approach. Now let me be forthcoming, I thought that resigning Schilling in the first place was a bad move given his age (and thought there were wiser ways to invest $8 million), and secondly I find it inexcusable the the Red Sox medical staff didn't see anything wrong with the shoulder when examining the former ace. But come on Curt, why do you have to speak out in this manner?

You're agreeing to disagree with the Red Sox as you want surgery (which would certainly end your season) and they want you to rehab. The only difference is that you look like you're dragging and whining like a spoiled brat right now. Curt, this is now definitely your last season with the Red Sox, and maybe in your career, so no, for $8 million freaking dollars having surgery to end your season is not an option. Yeah, maybe you only have a 10% chance of rehabbing your shoulder and coming back to pitch for the Sox in 2008, but 10% is 100% more then 0%. So suck it up big guy.

You've had a great career Curt, and a phenomenal stay in Boston, better then any Red Sox fan could ever dreamed, so if this is how it ends, then try and show a little class and be gracious about it, because in the end, I root for the Red Sox, and if you're going to be a distraction to the team, then this is all detrimental. Rehab to the best of your ability, teach the young kids the right way to prepare and approach the game, and be a Boston Red Sox, not a Curt Schilling, that's what I'm looking for.

Either way, these Spring issues always seem bigger then they are in hindsight, and this will pass over, I just wish Schilling would take a little higher road on this.

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Comments

[Boston Alternative Health]

derek: as you could probably imagine, this whole thing frustrates the heck out of me. i understand that curt would rather fall back on Dr. Morgan's opinion, the guy who has successfully cut him before. he says he's on the cutting edge (no pun intended) of the shoulder surgery field, and i'm sure he's absolutely brilliant. however, you have to think about where this guy is coming from. he makes his bread and butter off of shoulder surgery. i'm not saying he's suggesting surgery to make a quick buck. i'm saying that the thing that has made him famous, his specialty, his mantra, his M.O., is shoulder surgery. it's a completely biased opinion so of course that's what he's going to say is the right course of action, and that a more conservative (i.e. non-surgical) approach will have a "zero chance" of succeeding. curt's no spring chicken, and at this point in his career and at his age, recovery from surgery will be much harder and take far longer than it did in 1995. he's done so much damage to his shoulder already by just pitching at a major league level. cutting through all the skin and muscle, detaching then re-attaching the biceps tendon, then sewing it back up just exposes more damage to an already overused shoulder.

operation J.C. in effect...

[Derek Hixon]

Ha! It took me a little bit get the end of that comment, but now I'm cleaning spaghetti off my monitor! Hilarious.

I think you need to go in there, give the Schill some alternative medical means to heal his shoulder, and then become the hero of a RSN. Simple enough, although it doesn't involve mango salsa..

Great insight too, very cool to read.

[Pat]

Good post!

It's really curious how his shoulder would become injured during the offseason. Perhaps the Sox medical staff did a poor job assessing his shoulder. They've done such a good job with our pitchers otherwise, I find that hard to believe.

If he miracles our asses and comes back to win ALCS MVP, great, but I don't want to see him in red ever again. If he doesn't even come back at all, so be it. I hope we pick up a #5 or can get by with what we've got. I hope that if he doesn't play this year, he doesn't hold a grudge against the organization and shoot his mouth.