Schill selling Schill
I'll have a story in Tuesday's DT on Curt Schilling's chat with the media following his charity golf outing Monday in Lafayette Hill ... it was an interesting chat. Schilling swears that 2008 is it for him. He wants a one-year deal, period. I also get the feeling that he considers the Phillies one of the two- or three-best places to go if he can't get something done with the Bosox. The Phils, however, seem to be sitting back and waiting for the negotiation period to arrive before they contact Schilling. Whether that puts them behind any of the teams that have made preemptive feelers to Schill remains to be seen.
Here are a few trivial tidbits from the press conference:
--Schilling admits he arrived in camp last spring fat. Said he's ashamed of that and that he will come to spring training leaner this time. Just my opinion, but it looks like he has some work to do.
--He really doesn't like the media a little bit. Sadly, whereas most guys seem to chill out and make peace late in their careers, Schill just seems to get more bitter with time. He says he doesn't give a hoot about solidifying his Hall of Fame credentials with a strong farewell season - mostly because he thinks many of the voters are jerks who don't like him and will therefore spite him on the ballot. I just find his ambivalence tough to believe since he was with the Phils when Whitey and Schmitty were inducted, and that induction ceremony was one of Cooperstown's and Philadelphia sports' finest moments. I can't imagine a moment that special didn't resonate with Schilling.
--Oh, and some television idiot asked a question about Alexander Rodriguez. I think he was talking about A-Rod, but I was too busy wallowing in the misery of knowing that many athletes lump lame brains like that with writers and the select few TV types who actually have a clue.
To paraphrase a quote from Joe Piscopo's character in Johnny Dangerously: "I'm embarrassed to be a media member these days. The other day someone asked me what I do for a living, and I told them I was a male nurse."
Here are a few trivial tidbits from the press conference:
--Schilling admits he arrived in camp last spring fat. Said he's ashamed of that and that he will come to spring training leaner this time. Just my opinion, but it looks like he has some work to do.
--He really doesn't like the media a little bit. Sadly, whereas most guys seem to chill out and make peace late in their careers, Schill just seems to get more bitter with time. He says he doesn't give a hoot about solidifying his Hall of Fame credentials with a strong farewell season - mostly because he thinks many of the voters are jerks who don't like him and will therefore spite him on the ballot. I just find his ambivalence tough to believe since he was with the Phils when Whitey and Schmitty were inducted, and that induction ceremony was one of Cooperstown's and Philadelphia sports' finest moments. I can't imagine a moment that special didn't resonate with Schilling.
--Oh, and some television idiot asked a question about Alexander Rodriguez. I think he was talking about A-Rod, but I was too busy wallowing in the misery of knowing that many athletes lump lame brains like that with writers and the select few TV types who actually have a clue.
To paraphrase a quote from Joe Piscopo's character in Johnny Dangerously: "I'm embarrassed to be a media member these days. The other day someone asked me what I do for a living, and I told them I was a male nurse."
