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Monday, March 26, 2007
I believe it was Quintus Curtius Schillius Rufus that said…“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death”
Getting a little tired and bored here in the final week of the Grapefruit League circuit so I thought I’d take the day off and let Curt Schilling do the work. Schill started writing his own blog a few weeks ago, so today he fills the space with his latest Q & A session with fellow bloggers.
Loser38: I used to go to Star Trek conventions and comic book trade shows. No more. Now this blog is my life. My girlfriend says I’m spending too much time on this site. I say she’s being ridiculous. I mean, what’s six hours a day when you have a chance to communicate—cyberspace to cyberspace—with a legitimate Hall of Famer? Do you think I’m being reasonable, Schill?
38 Pitches: I’ve learned that greatness comes with a price. Only you can decide if you’re willing to pay that price. Personally, I’m spending about eight hours a day with this site and that’s not easy when you have as many responsibilities as I have. Whenever I begin to question things I just ask myself, “What would Gandhi do?” I mean, I never met the man, but I heard he was a really good guy. I think he would have been into 38 Studios.
Thanks to Can’t Stop the Bleeding.
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: March 26, 2007 at 05:24 PM (#2318039)Heh.
CHB38: What do you say to those media morons who contend that you are a self-important blowhard with an ill-informed opinion about everything and an insatiable need to be worshipped by sheep-like fans and late-night blog boys who live in Ma's basement?I was kind of cranky until I saw this and it cracked me up. Say what you will about CHB... but at least he realizes he is a #####.
The really funny thing is that Shaughnessy lives down to every one of Schilling's insults by publishing something like this. Wow, what a loser.
I don't think it's so much that he's the worst - I think he's a pretty smart guy and can be a decent writer - it's just that his pure, unadulterated nastiness and lack of interesting ideas can make him painful to read. If you're into reading attacks on your favorite players and columns that suck the fun and life out of baseball, he's your guy. He certainly writes like he's a pretty unhappy man.
If you read some of the stuff he did when he was actually trying (like, many of the ALCS comeback and WS stories) you see that this guy really can write. He just usually doesn't bother to.
I agree with the comments on the Globe's editors. They are the ones who should be pushing him to improve his output or take off.
He certainly writes like he's a pretty unhappy man.
There really is something fascinating about him, to me at least. The rancor, the negativity ... how in hell did he end up writing about baseball in the first place? Something Oedipal? Who knows? Maybe I should have a look into back issues of the Globe to see if there was a time when Shaughnessy's writing was less bilious than it so often is now.
It's an interesting way to about that job: using your column to pass judgment on people and settle perceived slights. He probably learned from the best at this: McDonough.
CHB: Hi everybody. I'm a big fraud who poops in my pants. Did you know that I like to have sex with trees? Hey, who wants to kill some puppies?
There's more material out there. Manny's grill, obviously. Tavarez's grill. You could make (i.e. exaggerate) something about Papelbon's about-face re. closing. Crisp's said some funny things recently.
Just lame.
As to the editorial quality issue, I think it is certain that several 38P regulars will fire off angry emails to the Globe and likely that Schilling himself will link to the piece and bag on Shaughnessy as well. A cyberfeud with Schilling will generate a little heat and controversy, and that, I think is what the editors mostly want these days. Shaughnessy's lead--Getting a little tired and bored here in the final week of the Grapefruit League circuit--kind of tells you what's up.
Wait a minute. Doesn't the Spring Training gig for sportswriters consist of: 1) getting up, 2) getting some breakfast, 3) going to a game or two, 4) filing a story, 5) getting loaded (supper optional), 6) cavorting with prostitutes?
Oh, wait. That was the seventies.
In any event, complaining about spending the mostly dreary New England spring in Florida watching baseball and filing fluff pieces (or hatchet jobs, as the case may be) constitutes a whole new shade of jaded.
Lil' Mike Lupica, Bryan Burwell, Gene Collier, Jerry Green...and I would throw Bill Madden, Hal Bodley...and their grandson's Winky Dink magic drawing screen into that pile of ############### elite.
Wait a minute. Doesn't the Spring Training gig for sportswriters consist of: 1) getting up, 2) getting some breakfast, 3) going to a game or two, 4) filing a story, 5) getting loaded (supper optional), 6) cavorting with prostitutes? 7) stumble into bed, 8)repeat?
Oh, wait. That was the seventies.
In any event, complaining about spending the mostly dreary New England spring in Florida watching baseball and filing fluff pieces (or hatchet jobs, as the case may be) would constitute a whole new shade of jaded.
disclaimer:I had the Globe delivered crosscountry to my dorm room BECAUSE of him------once upon a time
He's a columnist, not a beat writer. He's supposed to be opinionated and provocative. I've said it before...that gig has got to get old real fast.
There really is something fascinating about him, to me at least. The rancor, the negativity ... how in hell did he end up writing about baseball in the first place?
He's not a baseball writer. He's a columnist. He writes about the Celtics and the Bruins and the Patriots and occasionally about minor sports like golf or track and field.
Re: the negativity: He has a kid who is a cancer survivor. I think that fuels his "the world is unfair/athletes are spoiled and should be more thankful and giving" slant.
I'm very tired and making little sense, as usual.
Then, I did call time out, telling Tek “What the hell is Schill doing shaking to the curve ball?”, and bam! sure enough here came this hanging curve ball (Curt: I beg to differ, the first one wasn’t hanging) I watched for strike 1, and couldnt pull the trigger. Then schill came back with another (Curt: which I did hang) whiched I pulled foul (Curt: into the vendor selling lemonade, which for anyone sitting along the 3rd base dugout knows is no surprise, Kevin hooking a pitch foul) and yes he threw the 3rd one in a row which I layed off.
I remember we used to go crazy in chatter cause Millar seemed to put all his good swings into the dugouts or foul territory!!1
Columnists are still supposed to deal in facts. They can add their opinion to it, but it should be based in reality. It's not performance art.
Maybe he should take the "I should be less of a hack" slant.
I'm willing to defer to the knowledge of the native Bostonians on this. However, he is pretty well known for this book.
Which was the house warming gift from a Boston friend of ours when we moved to Providence. Way to set the tone, Rob!
What about Phil Rogers?
A lot of people might react to this by becoming more positive, since the child evidently survived, right? I think he's pi$$ed at Curt for playing such a big part in cutting of the revenue stream from his silly, historically innacurate book (linked to above in this here thread).
After the 2004 Sox accomplished the greatest victory in sports history, my cousin Brian, himself a journalist, burned CHB's stupid book to cinders in my Dad's back yard at our family's big "We Finally Won the World Series Party.
Shanks will answer a "goading enough" email.
When I read columns by CHB, Plaschke and Mariotti, I really feel like I hate the people behind them.
What's funny is that nobody recognizes how godawful Dallas sportswriting was in the early 90s. Remember, Cowlishaw was a beat writer at best during these years.
Bayless (bonus points for being the morning drive on the Ticket sports radio when it debuted, so hours of Skip a day), Rogers, Blackistone (who I detest), and Galloway.
Boston right now may top that, and LA right now comes close. But that's a black hole right there.
As for the claims that he's a talented writer, I no longer buy that argument. He writes maybe 1 good article a year; he's unable or unwilling to cover any non-Boston sport (the Globe sends Bob Ryan to cover the Olympics, or the NCAA tourny, etc.; Shank only covers the local clubs); he's too wrapped up in petty ######## to to a good job any more.
This is true. And he takes it out on the Red Sox. About thirty years ago, he liked the Red Sox - you can tell by his writing that he was also a fan back then. He has become hard and cynical, and can't stand modern players, so that he stirs up controversy and brings the team down at every opportunity. His god-awful article in today's paper DiceK is a great example.
I doubt there's a worse baseball writer in America.
He does respond to emails. I had to ask him about something about the '75 Red Sox and he replied right away.
Bayless isn't really a baseball writer. Hell, I don't know if he even really writes any more.
But beyond that, I don't think I'd put Bayless in any group. He might not have been the first, but he has perfected the "say ridiculous, hateful things in a breathtakingly bilious tone" schtick. He's the Mt. Everest of evil sportswriters.
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