Curt Schilling has opinions, and he's not afraid to share them ... over and over and over again. The morning of the trade deadline
he plainly admitted on the radio that he hoped teammate
Manny Ramirez would be sent packing. Days later, he celebrated Manny's trade to the Dodgers by
piling on with an old story about how he and Manny almost got into a fight.
And on Wednesday, six weeks after a trade that by all accounts has worked out perfectly for both the Dodgers and the Red Sox, Schilling once again found time to unload on his former teammate, saying Manny's "level of disrespect to teammates and people was unfathomable."
Chad Finn of the Boston Globe transcribed Schilling's appearance on WEEI:
"The guy got to dress in a locker away from the team for seven years," said Schilling, talking via telephone with Glenn Ordway and former Sox players Lou Merloni and Brian Daubach. "And then [when] he's on this crusade to get out of here, all of a sudden he's in the locker room every day, voicing his displeasure without even having to play the game that night."
Maybe Schilling has a point, but I find it ironic that a guy who, come to think of it,
hasn't thrown a single pitch this year, is complaining about somebody else "voicing his displeasure without even having to play the game that night." No, his real injury and Manny's allegedly make-believe ailments aren't nearly the same thing, but still, his words would carry more weight were he actually contributing this year.
What, did somebody die? There are too many grave problems in this world for Manny Ramirez to sequester his dreadlocked soul in solitary confinement. He prefers to hide this week, a full seven days after word surfaced of his self-inflicted steroid shame, rather than apologize in person to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates as the club's mortified owner has demanded.
