You’ve all heard.
I’m not dignifying this BS.
“The blood on his stocking. It was painted. Doug Mirabelli confessed up to it after.” – Gary Thorne
“Are you kidding me? He’s [expletive] lying. … I never said that. I know it was blood.” – Doug Mirabelli
Read the utter insanity here.
I’m moving on.
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Looks like spray paint to me. Scars don’t prove anything. Schilling’s a girl.
I saw this in the elevator coming back from lunch. There’s no possible reason for Mirabelli to even discuss anything like that unless he wanted to get booted from the team.
Silly stuff.
I suppose we could go ask the hall of fame for a DNA test.
Who cares! We know he was hurt, do we need the blood to be real to prove it? He had surgery!
I posted a comment on “Don’t look now” because I had to get it off my chest before this article was posted. Everyone (Thorne) wants to unmask the hero but they can’t do it heorically so they try to snake it in to a conversation and just for good measure throw someone under the bus with it
I don’t believe Gary Thorne, a long time national boardcaster of World Series games, of Stanley Cup Finals, and of everything else on the planet, suddenly decided that this was the issue he wanted to start telling fibs about.
I believe wholeheartedly that Mirabelli told Thorne it was fake.
Here’s where my belief in this story breaks down and where I need more details.
Perhaps Mirabellia was screwing around and saying that as a joke. Perhaps Thorne took it as being serious and ran with it. Perhaps Thorne knew it was sarcasm and was trying to be funny last night. Perhaps someone else told him it was paint and Thorne just remembers it as Mirabelli.
The point it, that while I’m no where near convinced that it was a fake, I’m also no wher enear convinced that such a highly respected broadcaster like Thorne suddenly decided to start lying.
Unless of course he’s realizing that the Orioles’ MASN network is the absolute pathetic joke that it is and is trying to get fired so he can get a real job. But if he wanted to do that all he’d have to do is say the word BALTIMORE, since Peter Angelos hates to acknowledge that the team is from here. (Yes, he’s that petty.)
What’s important, and what will DEFFINATELY get lost in the next few days as this story blows up into rediculous proportions, is that it doesn’t matter if the damn sock was bloody or not.
Schilling just had surgury. He wasn’t 100%. And he pitched like a true ace that night anyway.
It’s not like the blood was ever free flowing. It was a little drop. Big deal. The blood wasn’t a factor in any one way or the other.
What was a factor is that Schilling played his guts out on a weak ankle that night for a thankful Yankee hating nation. Whether the suture on the wound he had was actually leaking or not is irrelevant. He had the wound.
But I promise you all that this will get lost as this story grows to stupid levels. And it WILL grow.
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tf8 that’s ridiculous… unmask the hero. get a hold of yourself. like anyone would waste their time
gleich, just prior to making the comment about the sock Thorne made it quite clear that he was not fond of Curt and none of the media in Boston likes Schilling. Sounds like an agenda to me.
Anyone else notice Mr. Thorne brought up this would-be Bloodgate scandal while Schilling was occupied otherwise with waxing the Orioles’ tails Wednesday night? You think some other division rival and/or their broadcaster mightn’t have some reason for getting into Red Sox heads before the Olde Towne Team might have an even more reasonable prospect of making the AL East an, ahem, bloodbath?
Blood, paint, who cares?
I think we
agenda…. thats so absurd. its no wonder reporters run with these things. Im sure a renowned sportscaster is part of league wide conspiracy to denounce curt schilling. which “hero” will gary go after next?
Yeah the ‘agenda’ thing was a little much.
As if Thorne has just be laying in wait for 2 and a half years until that fateful night where he called a game involving Schilling, so he could finally unleash his evil plot of world domination that begins with destorying Schilling’s legacy.
Sure…THAT’S what happened…..
I have lost all respect that I had for Gary Thorne. Gary should keep his mouth closed. Same for Jim Palmer…
I never poke of a league wide conspiracy nor do I think Thorne has been laying in wait to drop the bomb. I do think that in the process of voicing his dislike of Schilling and Schills strained relations with the Boston media his agenda was to prove he was right about Curt being all about Curt and what better way than by putting a shadow on Curts defining moment by saying it was a PR stunt. Even through all this Thorne can’t take the preformance away.
third word should be SPOKE not POKE — typing is not my thing
Did I hear the Sox announcers say that Millar was wearing red tape on one of his socks? If so, it makes me so happy.
MR
http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/CS_ank_bdd_11.7.04.JPG
A picture’s worth a thousand words. I have a feeling the blood wasn’t fake…
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070426&content_id=1931740&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
And if the picture’s not enough, Thorne has admitted he was wrong.
How the HELL do you walk Varitek to set up the double play and face Wily Mo Pena and then throw him a fastball with the bases loaded? If you could get 3 breaking pitches over the plate you have a strikeout. Good timing if the Red Sox are looking to get Beckett his 5th win.
(actually, you don’t even have to get the breaking balls over the plate. he’ll swing at anything)
Our manager is a complete idiot. That’s how you walk Tek to get to Pena.
I was screaming at the TV on that one. It’s a good thing I remove blunt objects from my reach before the games start or I’d be buying a new TV tomorrow.
The result of handing Pena a bases loaded at bat was more predictable than tomorrow’s sunrise.
And get the story right about Thorne. It was Mirabelli who admitted he DID say that the sock was painted, but added now that he meant it as a locker room joke that Thorne misunderstood.
This is after last night when he said Thorne was a liar. Now he’s saying Thorne misunderstood that he was joking.
Who knows what really happened. This has ‘PR guys told everyone what to say’ written all over it.
[...] On the heels of a fine display against the Baltimore Orioles, Curt Schilling has now found himself in the media limelight twice this season (and by season, I include Spring Training). The first time was when he announced he was not retiring after the year as planned. The second was yesterday, when he somehow found himself in the middle of a furor about his bloody sock from three years ago. Apparently it was paint, not blood. Whatever. [...]