Donkey Business

Schilling, in his weekly appearance on sports radio WEEI's "Dennis and Callahan" show, was asked if baseball fans should hold their noses while watching Barry Bonds's pursuit of Hank Aaron's all-time Major League home run record.

"Oh yeah. I would think so. I mean, he admitted that he used steroids," said Schilling. "I mean, there's no gray area. He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes, and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think. Hank Aaron not being there. The commissioner [Bud Selig] trying to figure out where to be. It's sad."

"And I don't care that he's black, or green, or purple, or yellow, or whatever. It's unfortunate... there's good people and bad people. It's unfortunate that it's happening the way it's happening."


In order to not come across as a "homer", please allow me a minute to take a breath and collect my thoughts...

Curt Schilling...SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!!

You don't know what you're talking about...your "facts" are inaccurate. This is ALL a ploy to circulate more attention on you.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you won 2 World Series rings with the following players (and continuously praise the efforts of Mike Lowell, the google definition of steroids):

• Gabe Kapler
• David Ortiz (it's not a coincidence that I haven't mentioned a peep about his recent comments)
• Johnny Damon
• Nomar Garciaparra
• Matt Williams
• LUIS GONZALEZ!!!
• ...the list goes on-and-on

No one (yes, not even Curt Schilling) should even be allowed to talk about diminishing Bonds' records. If you want to take away his MVP's and home runs, then take away Don Sutton’s and Gaylord Perry’s Hall of Fame plaques. Take way Norm Cash’s batting title. Take away Mike Scott’s perfect game. They all cheated, just as surely as Bonds, Giambi, and Ken Caminiti did. As surely as more players that you want to know about did.

What Bonds and these others did was deeply rooted in the game. Pete Rose and most players of his generation couldn’t take batting practice without first downing a handful of “greenies”. Willie Mays kept a bottle of “red juice” in his locker — the same stuff as greenies, but in a liquid form. You can’t say Hank Aaron was clean, because we don’t know what stimulants he took (it's well documented that that he survived off of amphetamines during his playing career). The situation is what it is -- shut up and play...