For certain sects of Major League Baseball fandom, there are few figures quite as mythic or legendary as Curt Schilling.
The longtime MLB ace, who has played for a number of teams over his illustrious career, is perhaps best known for the 2004 “bloody sock” game, wherein Schilling pitched a dominant game despite recovering from ankle surgery. In subsequent replays of the game, you can clearly see a red blotch on Schilling’s sock grow larger as the game went on.
Oh, and there was also the not-so-insignificant fact that Schilling’s bloody sock game came during a historic playoff comeback, as Schilling and the Boston Red Sox completed the first-ever comeback from a 3-0 series deficit in MLB history (a feat that still hasn’t been accomplished in the NBA.) And it also happened to be at the expense of the hated Red Sox rivals, the New York Yankees.
Point being: Curt Schilling knows and loves baseball, a sport in which he has reached the highest possible levels. His thoughts on the sport are not the bitter ramblings of a has-been or never-was — they’re insight from a man embedded in the annals of baseball lore.
So it’s with that preface that baseball should listen long and hard to what Schilling has to say about the current state of the MLB product.
Curt Schilling appeared on Saturday’s episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime” to discuss a litany of topics, but he honed in on one particularly feisty cultural battleground: Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
For the unaware, the Dodgers have found themselves squarely in the eye of a storm when it invited, then dis-invited, and then re-invited a mentally disturbed group of blasphemers known as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” (If you’re morbidly curious, you can go to this article to see a video of the SPI’s “performances,” but be warned — this stuff is genuinely grotesque and sickening.)
That debacle, in turn, led to all manner of protests, counter-protests, arguments and debates about whether or not the Dodgers were in the wrong. Spoiler alert: Yes, they were.
For Schilling, this stunt and disastrous fallout were emblematic of so much of the LGBT movement. Namely, why are businesses and conglomerates bending over so backward, into literal sin sometimes, for such a small subset of the American population?
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