Via The Blue State Conservative
For many of us, we never particularly cared for Curt Schilling during his MLB playing days. Schilling played for five different teams – including the much-despised Red Sox and Phillies – and was considered a staff ace for most of his career. Yet while many of us rooted against Schilling and his teams, very few of us ever questioned his skills or tenacity; see Schilling’s 2004 ‘bloody sock’ incident for reference. If we’re being honest, most of us would have loved to have him pitching for our team.
During his career, Schilling was famous as a ballplayer and nothing else. If he ever weighed in on political matters during that time, his comments were subtle and relatively benign; the way active athletes should approach politics. Since his retirement in Boston in 2007, however, Schilling has been vocal in speaking out for conservative causes, to the point many now associate the right-hander more with his opinions than with his once-great, lights-out four-seam fastball.
