Red Sox legend and failed video game mogul Curt Schilling has been back in the news both locally and nationally as of late – in fact, it seems like he can’t keep himself out of the news. He maintained a relatively low profile for a while after his most recent firing from ESPN, but over the past couple of months he’s been inflicting himself on the already beleaguered psyches of New Englanders with increasing regularity and belligerence. Let’s look at the highlights:
In October, Schilling penned an op-ed for the ProJo in which he heaped blame and scorn on former Governor Lincoln Chafee (while admittedly accepting a fair amount of blame himself) for the failure of 38 Studios. Then, he finally consented to give an interview with a local media outlet, appearing in front of what might charitably be called a sympathetic audience in the form of WPRO’s John DePetro. During three hours on air, Schilling declared that he had “nothing to apologize for” regarding the 38 Studios fiasco. Perhaps more gallingly, he stated, without a hint of irony, “If I was the governor, I would have never even offered this deal. The government doesn’t belong in private business.” This was a stunning display of gall by a self-proclaimed small-government conservative who eagerly accepted $75 million from the taxpayers of Rhode Island to fulfill a 13-year-old boy’s career fair daydream.
Not content to simply self-immolate before a local audience, Schilling went national. He appeared live on Fox Business News and had an increasingly pleading exchange with an increasingly baffled female anchor as he made the case that it was a totally normal human impulse for Donald Trump to look at a ten-year-old girl and joke, “I’m going to be dating her in ten years.” The excruciating interview, which prompted in Fox’s Trish Regan the kind of side-eye that internet GIFs are made of, contains the following actual words that came out of a grown man’s mouth live on television, which bear quoting in their entirety: “I have a daughter, my daughter has friends. I’ve seen my daughter’s friends, I’m a man. ‘Wow, she’s a beautiful young lady.’ I don’t immediately jump to molesting her.” If you have to say it, Curt…
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