Man, Curt gets up early to Google himself nowadays.

Every player who has ever and will ever play the game will, from now on, be defined solely by the measure to which they are like / not like Alex Rodriguez, as a human being.  Forget WARP, OPS and Win Shares: the only stat that matters is the A-Rod Symmetrical Quotient.

Several assumption may have been made in his comments. 

The first being that Schilling has never done PEDs as he may have prior to testing and may have used HGH post steroids testing.  Unfortunately taking any player at their word is risky and while I tend to believe Schilling was clean I will not take anything, with any player, with total certainly about not having taken PEDs.  I am not throwing all players into the PEDs pools but the clean players unwillingness push the PA to ask for testing is partly to blame for the current era of uncertainty.

The second assumption is in regards to Schilling telling the truth - again I do not tend to disagree with much of what he has said about baseball.  However Schilling has used his baseball celebrity to push his political and moral beliefs as well and I do not agree with all of what he advocates and cannot accept them to be truths.  I do believe that some of the other Curt bashers are equally as critical of his non-baseball commentary.

Lastly, the ‘kiss his fat hairy a**’ may be an assumption as well unless there is some insider knowledge.  As one who has seen him in a baseball uniform I concur with the fat comment but wonder where the knowledge of hairy may be coming from. 

(Please note - the above is meant to be joke and not a shot at writer of the initial comment)

Not to take anything away from wise men like Curt Schilling and Jose Canseco, but wouldn’t it be refreshing if the guy making public statements was Bill “Spaceman” Lee or Mickey Rivers?

I don’t tend to believe Curt was clean. He was on the ‘93 Phillies.

Ahhh.  Good times.  Schilling got me that first Series in 2004…but that doesn’t make him not a jackass.  A future Hall of Famer, but a jackass nonetheless.