“Hi, my name is Curt Schilling and I’m a sanctimonious phony.”
That should have been the opening line of the Red Sox pitcher’s statement that he read before Congress on Thursday. Here we have another jock with political aspirations who has revealed that he is nothing other than a big mouth, player’s apologist and is just another brick in the “Pinstriped Wall of Silence.”
This guy has political aspirations. My question is, do we really need another feckless grandstander in the political ranks?
Schilling’s presence on the panel of players that appeared before Congress was based in large part on statements that he made in Sports Illustrated two years ago. In this statement Schilling commented on how many guys were so big with extra muscles and looked like Mr. Potato Head.
Schilling has sucked up to President Bush and members of his administration, and as a result of his past statements was looked upon as a hard-line anti-steroid voice among the sycophants that make up the Players Union.
I guarantee you that there are people in Washington and in the Bush Administration who are very unhappy with Mr. Schilling as a result of his about face on his very specific statements where he said he knew guys were cheating.
His explanation that he overstated the “steroid in baseball” problem two years ago due to not knowing all the facts makes him unfit to be a part of the solution. And yet this guy is supposed to be more credible than Jose Canseco?
Schilling chose to go along with the rest of the rank-and-file and decided that being anti-Canseco, and therefore pro-player, was more important than being honest. He will pay for this misplaced loyalty - and miscalulation - with his future political career.
As this issue moves forward Canseco becomes more credible while the players, their union apparatus and the rest of the baseball establishment starts to resemble the Nixon Administration during the Watergate scandal. This is fun to watch.
Stay tuned there is a lot more to come…
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