Curtis Schilling giving an all new meaning to the Boston Red Sox - Part 2
Curt Schilling is known for being on teams that win the World Series, but something else that he is remembered for is his ‘bloody sock’ from the 2004 World Series which holds historical importance for his team, the Boston Red Sox, who won it after a good
84 year wait. When pitching the cameras zoomed in on his feet where blood could be seen seeping through the material of his socks.
The announcer for the Baltimore Orioles, Gary Thorne announced during a Red Sox and Orioles game that there was no blood on Schilling sock during the championship, according to him it was ketchup, or even paint. He later went on to say the Doug Mirabelli,
the catcher for Boston informed him that the sock story was a hoax.
These accusations obviously didn’t settle down too well with Schilling. In his blog he blasted the media over the bloody sock controversy and challenged anyone and everyone to a $1 million dare. In his blog he firmly asserts that the blood on his socks during
the 2004 American League Championship Series and later the World Series was real. He was very critical of Thorne for saying something that tainted him and the Red Sox in a bad light, live in air, without any proof.
"My only real problem is not that Gary Thorne said something stupid and ignorant, which he did, but that without a word being uttered by anyone in our clubhouse this somehow became a major news story," Schilling wrote.
“If you have ... the guts, grab an orthopedic surgeon, have them suture your ankle skin down to the tissue covering the bone in your ankle joint, then walk around for 4 hours,” Schilling wrote on his website. “After that go find a mound, throw a hundred
or so pitches, run over, cover first a few times. When you’re done check that ankle and see if it bleeds.
To back his claims that the blood on the socks was real indeed, he openly challenged anyone to prove it otherwise and offered to pay $1 million to the person’s charity in case they are successful in proving him wrong. He wrote, "I'll wager one million dollars
to the charity of anyone's choice, versus the same amount to ALS. If the blood on the sock is fake, I'll donate a million dollars to that person's charity; if not, they donate that amount to ALS. Any takers?"
Let’s just hope that what Schilling claims is true because in this Steroid Era, where baseball ace’s like Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez are surrounded by steroids scandals that taint baseball, the fans don’t know how many more lies they can digest.
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