TORONTO - Curt Schilling had little to do with Sunday's scuffles between the Devil Rays and Red Sox, but on a Tuesday radio show he took some big shots at Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella.
"The problem is when you're playing a team with a manager who somehow forgot how the game is played, there's problems," Schilling said on the WEEI Dennis and Callahan program morning show. "This should have been over a little bit ago.
"Lou's trying to make his team be a bunch of tough guys, and the telling sign is when the players on that team are saying, "This is why we lose 100 games a year, because this idiot makes us do stuff like this.' They (Rays' players) said that on the field."
Piniella said Schilling, who is off to a rough start this season, should have more pressing concerns.
"I think he should just concern himself with pitching and forget making comments about anybody else. I think he'd be better served,'' Piniella said. "I don't think I've forgotten how to play the game. I know exactly how the game should be played, and why. Quite frankly, I'm disappointed in his comments, very disappointed in his comments."
As for Schilling's claim that Rays players were blaming Piniella?
"Go talk to the players," Piniella said. "I don't think they'd say that. I know you wouldn't get one to say that."
Schilling also was unhappy with comments made during Sunday's TV broadcast by Rays analyst Joe Magrane, but Magrane said there is no issue to discuss or apology to be made.
"While the notion of verbal sparring with Curt Schilling might be fascinating to me," Magrane said, "it's not something I'm going to engage in."
During the broadcast, Magrane took a few shots at Schilling - "really half tongue-in-cheek stuff," he said. He said that he was shocked Schilling was running his mouth during the melee; that Schilling, 38, was too old to be so involved; and that he must have thrown down his walker to get out there.
Magrane said he heard from Boston media that Schilling was upset about his comments on the Pax broadcast, which were included in ESPN's highlights and played repeatedly Sunday night and Monday, but he refused to apologize, or to fire back.
"I've gotten a number of calls to go on Boston radio, but the game's about the players on the field, I don't want to be a distraction," Magrane said. "I was describing the action as I saw it in my job as an analyst, and I'll leave it at that. But I'm a Devil Rays announcer, not a Red Sox announcer."
Magrane, who is paid by the Rays, said he didn't understand why his comments were a big deal.
"It's a nonstory; he's basically making it a story," Magrane said. "But I'm not going to apologize for it, either."
"Schilling is a horse every fifth day and a horse' ass the other four."
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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The best was when Shilling opened his big mouth last year and said that X percentage of baseball players did steriods and it was unfair. Then this year when he could have stepped up to the plate about steriod testing, he cried like a little baby and said he knew nothing.
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RrrrrrredBelly wrote:
Too Big a Man Too Say wrote:
Schilling thinks that he can do or say anything he wants because the Red Sox won the Series. What an asshole.
you're still pretty young, is this the first year you've been following baseball? schilling has been speaking his mind for a lot longer than 6 months.
Thats not what i said at all. And i knew thats how it would be interpreted, but if want to be an ass and try to prove that you know more than everyone else go ahead and fun with that.
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Too Big a Man Too Say wrote:
RrrrrrredBelly wrote:
Too Big a Man Too Say wrote:
Schilling thinks that he can do or say anything he wants because the Red Sox won the Series. What an asshole.
you're still pretty young, is this the first year you've been following baseball? schilling has been speaking his mind for a lot longer than 6 months.
Thats not what i said at all. And i knew thats how it would be interpreted, but if want to be an ass and try to prove that you know more than everyone else go ahead and fun with that.
you said that schilling thinks he can say whatever he wants because the red sox won the world series. i dont think that what he says has anything at all to do with the sox winning the WS and that this is how he's alway been. i'm sorry if it was misinterpreted.
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schilling has been a big talker for years, only thing is no one cared in the desert, when u move to boston, it's gonna get noticed, but besides that, if your gonna talk about a fight, make sure u got a swing in before you go talking.
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Angels Tribe wrote:
RrrrrrredBelly wrote:
Too Big a Man Too Say wrote:
Schilling thinks that he can do or say anything he wants because the Red Sox won the Series. What an asshole.
you're still pretty young, is this the first year you've been following baseball? schilling has been speaking his mind for a lot longer than 6 months.
speaking your mind and being an ass are two different things...imo
i guess only the players on the field know if that statement was actually said. if it was though, i dont think schilling was being an ass. this thing with the rays has been going on for about 5 years, it was started between 2 players that are no longer with the teams, and its stupid. i'm not saying that the sox are innocent bystanders, but if piniella is more concerned with his team being tough and getting into bench clearing incidents with the sox than he is with his team winning, then schilling has a right to speak his mind.
red sox pitchers shouldnt be concerned that anytime they hit a tampa batter that they guy is going to charge the mound, and to me, thats what the alledged statement by the devil ray player was implying.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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