I give Curt major props on his authenticity. Generally Curt Schilling gets a strong reaction from baseball fans. Love him or hate him, keep him or leave him, in Boston or New York, fans have a strong opinion. He tells it as he sees it.
Curt does one of the best jobs in professional sports using his blog to speak his mind in an authentic straighforward manner. While voicing his opinion, he doesn't use marketing drivel or any media-trained language that Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh was quick to pick up in Bull Durham.
"A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while. (Bull Durham, 1998)
I remember being in spring training prior to playing for the Reading Phillies when Schilling came in with Paul "The Pope" Owens and Bill Giles to speak to the hundreds of minor leaguers. Schilling was very outspoken: "be yourself." Schilling went on to speak passionately (in a way only Curt Schilling could speak) to the hundreds of ball players telling us to be true to who we are. Not to change our hair, our name, our personality, our game to either try to fit in or to try to stand out. "We have seen it all..." he said. 15 years later, the same Curt Schilling writes on his blog.
Yesterday's post:
I’m 41, injured and rehabbing, and the personal history involved. To “GO” somewhere in this game takes two parties, and I would think it would be a safe bet that the Yankees, and their fans, will manage just fine without me ever donning pinstripes.
What if all players took Curt's lead and shared their thoughts with their fans through a blog? (Sure, there would be an ensuing PR nightmare for some players, but big leaguers are in the big leagues because they can make quick adjustments!) What if they then linked to the hundred's of fan sites on MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites? They will.
