Curt Schilling had a great career and RantingMark respects the things he has accomplished on the baseball field. With 216 wins, over 3000 strikeouts and three World Series rings, he has a legitimate shot at being enshrined at Cooperstown one day. It is his pea brain that bothers RantingMark. Schilling’s latest spewing about how Yankees fans are revelling in Tom Brady’s season ending injury is moronic. Are some fans happy? Certainly. Would it be fair to apply that statement to the majority of Yankees fans? No. Here’s the quote:
“The euphoria in New York is palpable,” Schilling said. “The Yankees suck this year and they are bitter and mad and making excuses over that. Now they got Tom going down so New York’s excited. It’s unfortunate, but when you crawl to the top of the pile you will have people trying to knock you down.”
First off Curt, the Yankees and Jets aren’t the same team. They aren’t even the same sport. Most Yankees fans RantingMark knows are NY Giants fans and clearly they don’t care whether Brady is hurt or not. They knocked him around in the SuperBowl last year and beat him. My guess is that Giants fans are upset they don’t get to beat Brady again this year. And while the Yankees suck (and RantingMark hates to say this), the NY Mets who tend to share more fans with the Jets than Giants are in FIRST PLACE. Being that Schilling is a newbie, bandwagon Patriots fan, he probably doesn’t realize that once upon a time, the Jets themselves in the form of Mo Lewis, knocked former Patriot starting QB Drew Bledsoe out of a game bringing Brady to the forefront, so this isn’t as exciting to a real Jets (or Yankees) fan as Schilling assumes. For the record RantingMark is a Yankess and Jets fan.
Well, at least for once Curt is partially correct. The Yankees do indeed suck this year and the Yankees would certainly agree that everyone wants to knock you down when you are on top. They’ve felt that for 80 years.
Curt obviously doesn’t know Boston Red Sox fans well. Say what you will about Yankees fans. They can be a tough bunch, but RantingMark never witnessed anything like what he saw at Fenway Park one day about six years ago where two adult male Sox fans berated a girl who was about 12 or 13 years old wearing a Derek Jeter jersey, calling her “slut and whore”. They said more, but RantingMark won’t quote what he cannot remember precisely… And no, RM doesn’t condemn all Sox fans for that incident the way Schilling would if it were the other way around, but let’s just say they are a tough bunch. I am pretty sure people in Boston weren’t exactly in tears when players like Chien Ming Wang, Joba Chamberlain, Jorge Posada, Alex Rodriguez and others went down with injuries for the Yankees this year.
Maybe Schilling is just confused. He hates the Yankees with a passion but has a son named Gehrig. Maybe he should have named him Buckner (and that isn’t a diss on the underrated Billy Bucks). And yes, Schilling is the guy that practically begged for a new deal in the offseason, basically stealing $8MM from the Red Sox when it was later determined before he pitched a single inning that he was hurt and probably out for the year. Way to go Curt!
Perhaps karma is catching up to Belichick the cheater. First he suffers one of the biggest letdowns in sports history by going unbeaten all year, only to lose in the SuperBowl and now his main man, Tom Brady goes down with a season ending injury. While few are cheering the loss of the Tom Brady who is a class act, I don’t think too many people outside of New England are broken up over it either.
And for the record, despite what he says, Curt Schilling gets my vote for the Hall of Fame if RantingMark had one. You can argue his opinions but you cannot argue his career.
For more on Curt Schilling, check out:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/sports/yankees/schilling_rips_new_york_fans____again_128268.htm
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