Curt Schilling is posting on a Yankee message board

edmundfitzgerald

Curt is posting today. His username is gehrig38.

http://forums.nyyfans.com/showthread.php?p=5724704#post5724704

That link takes you to a "Red Sox thread" concerning Jason Varitek. Read what gehrig38 has to say about that.

You can find him posting in the Arod thread today too. You'll have to get out of the red sox thread, and move over
to the Yankees Inside the Lines thread with Arod.

edmundfitzgerald

gehrig38
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Re: Red Sox Thread Version 2.0

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick Michael
I was surprised the Sox offered him arbitration, and was flat out shocked when he declined it. You don't need an agent to steer clear of a mistake like that. You only need to have some basic, and I mean real basic, financial common sense.

Anyway, please forgive me if I don't feel the least bit bad for him or any other ballplayer in any sport has to slum it to the tune of $5 million per season. I don't envy his money, but good grief, if I made a mistake of that proportion running a small business it would be my last.


Here's where Curt responds to the post of Stick Michael.................


I don't think he expects pity or wants it. He knows. And as far as the arbitration and knowing the rules, take the quotes given and understand when I say he IS a smart guy, nothing that happened shocked him or caught him off guard for the most part.

I am no Boras fan, far from it. But I am shocked after all these years and what I think are all his f'ups, to see players continually plead the loyalty and allegiance they do.

He works his ass off for his players, but I don't think all of his players get all of his attention all of the time and in some cases I think things slip through the cracks and stuff like this happens. He takes bullets for his players, in their mind, which is the only reason I can surmise they take bullets from him.

Hell speaking from personal experience, I had agents I felt were family to me, 3 of them were in my wedding, 10 years later they tried to take money from me they weren't entitled to and they got not one dime in an arbitration hearing, lying to my face in the arbitration hearing. It was devastating to Shonda and I.

It's a HUGE business, the minute, as a player, you think someone is going to be as loyal to you as you are to them, outside of your family, you make a mistake you can't comprehend until often times it's too late.

edmundfitzgerald

gehrig38
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Re: A-Rod tested positive for steroids

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Quote:
Originally Posted by GrouchoNYY
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I'm not sure if AROD should sue, but the Union certainly ought to. So much for the confidentiality agreement. If the list is not officially released, I'd totally ignore it as unproven. If it is released, the Union should sue for a contract violation. Why should the players agree to any program that is as shoddily policed as is the MLB drug program?

Here is Curt Schilling's response to GrouchoNYY's post.............................


Bingo. Look the confidentiality part is inconsequential to the positive tests. These guys are nailed, and more are likely to be outed.

But we stated back then, I know I did as a rep, our complete and total distrust of the owners. You do NOT attach 'owners' and 'confidentiality' in the same sentence. These guys outright lied to our faces when presented with documentation that they were misreporting their clubs earnings in everything from concessions to TV revenue, we knew this wasn't going to work.

That being said, I feel like they just need to list the 104 players, and let the chips fall, and move on.

As far as 'leaks' and why there are no Sox, I can't answer that other than it appears the leaks are from federal agents or people on the government side of things.

I have a feeling we're inching up to seeing them all at some point. Someone will go for the dollars here because I'd be stunned if they hadn't gone through the positives and matched up every 'anonymous' number to the players name.....

BPorter26

Good read thanks