The power of the bloody sock might be tested
As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I will always think fondly of Curt Schilling’s brave performance in 2004, bleeding through his sock while shutting down the New York Yankees on the way to winning the World Series for the first time since 1918.
That same Schilling, now retired, is thinking about running to replace Ted Kennedy, but as a Republican.
“We’ve got a political system and a group of people that suck, and that needs to change,” Schilling told the Boston Herald.
Retired athletes have had some success in politics. Bill Bradley, a former Knick, had a productive career in the Senate, and former NFL QB Jack Kemp was a shining light for Republicans for a long time. On the other hand, there’s also folks like Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, whom many in the GOP seem to think of as an embarrassment.
There’s also the example of Lynn Swann, the Hall of Fame receiver for my Steelers and a childhood hero. He ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 2006 as a Republican and got swamped, losing by 20 percentage points. And while I suspect Schilling might get a similar reception from Massachusetts, the power of RedSox Nation should not be underestimated.
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Turd Ferguson
September 3rd, 2009
2:25 pm
Lettuce save the worst for last…Al *Puke* Franken.
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
2:28 pm
“Lettuce”
Still getting those Engrish lessons from Georgieboy I see.
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
2:29 pm
If he runs as a Republican he’ll never be able to replace Kennedy. The best he could ever do is to win the seat that Kennedy held for so long and so well.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 3rd, 2009
2:32 pm
We could run Bill Buckner and drub you lame~O democrats.
deegee
September 3rd, 2009
2:37 pm
Melanie Oudin for Mayor!
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
2:39 pm
““We’ve got a political system and a group of people that suck, and that needs to change,””
Such, such poetry.
ByteMe
September 3rd, 2009
2:41 pm
We’ve got a political system and a group of people that suck, and that needs to change
I don’t think Curt really grasps what being 1 of 100 Senators really means.
RealityKing
September 3rd, 2009
2:41 pm
It would be a fitting tribute to a man the lived large off the pretense of helping the poor..
Finn McCool
September 3rd, 2009
2:42 pm
Hey Turd, what athletic team did Al Franken play for?
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
2:42 pm
I saw a story about Lenny Dykstra somewhere the other day – it was about how he was a financial genius and all that but he’s lost all his money – and I swear that guy could barely form a sentence.
Nothing is Free
September 3rd, 2009
2:42 pm
Donna.
I saw your comment on the last blog. You better be careful. Your old 20th century notion that your children are yours to raise is over. Step into the light of enlightenment!!!
As you can clearly read by all the fair minded and intelligent liberal posters here, The Lord God Obama is only going to be talking to your children about their own betterment, certainly not your own selfish ideas of raising your kids to think for themselves.
And the fact that The Lord God Obama’s health care plan is tanking has nothing to do with his enlightenment of your children. Go hide under a bed. IT IS PERFECTLY HARMLESS.
And together we pray:
Obama is Great, Obama is good.
Let us thank him for our food
By his grace we all are fed.
Give us Lord Obama our Daily Bread.
Amen.
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
2:44 pm
Finn
[[what athletic team did Al Franken play for?]]
The Hollywood Clowns -
Truth
September 3rd, 2009
2:46 pm
I love it! The guy is never afraid to speak his mind.
“I care what people think, but that doesn’t change what I say. I am who I am.”
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
2:47 pm
Nothing is Free,
That prayer thing is kind of creepy.
Hey Paul!
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
2:47 pm
“The Lord God Obama ”
See, I TOLD YOU they love him!
Normal
September 3rd, 2009
2:48 pm
Maybe Maria Shriver could come back and be Teds replacement. What a ploitical family that would be…Arnold in California and Maria in Massachusetts. Truly nation wide…
joe matarotz
September 3rd, 2009
2:48 pm
The sock was a ruse, and Papi and Manny were on the juice. Ooo-rah, Red Sox Nation.
Normal
September 3rd, 2009
2:50 pm
Nothing For Free reminds me of Aqualung, “Eying little girls with bad intent”…
AmVet
September 3rd, 2009
2:53 pm
Yo, turdpie you dipwad! Franken is not a retired athlete.
And Bill “OOPS!” Buckner?
The always correct white welcher is a hoot and aholler when he talks about drubbing democrats, cuz the shoe sho has been on the other footsie a LOT lately, hasn’t it welchy!
I’ve heard him speak and trust me Schilling is a BushCo Republishill. And ANYWHERE outside of Dixie, aka the Moron Belt, he has no chance…
Turd Ferguson
September 3rd, 2009
2:53 pm
Franken played for the team of “Franken and Davis”. Just saying Franken-Puke is the bottom of the barrel.
Question
September 3rd, 2009
2:56 pm
I’ll take your ““We’ve got a political system and a group of people that suck, and that needs to change,”, and raise you one “Hell, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help.” (Wargames)…
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
2:58 pm
Hey Bosch
Episcopalopian-type topic.
Remember how a while back we had a group here who ridiculed anyone of any religious inclination any chance they got?
Watched the second part of the BBC program (okay, ‘programme’ if USinUK reads this) at lunchtime. Was describing why our prior ancestor line died out. Gave as an example a member of the tribe dying and they left him and moved on. What distinguished them from us?
Lack of imagination. The inability to see beyond immediacy and past the senses.
That’d be a good comeback – “actually, you are the culmination of the recessive gene characteristics that long ago died out, unable to adapt.”
An evolutionary argument as a rebuttal to an atheist.
I love it.
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
2:59 pm
Bosch
The BBC program was Walking with Cavemen.
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm
I wonder what Donna’s gonna put on the note she sends to school on Wednesday –
Dear Principal,
Please excuse my kids from school yesterday, I kept them home so they wouldn’t have to listen to the President of the United States encourage them to work hard, be responsible, and stay in school.
Thank you.
Oh, and Donna – you do know it will be an unexcused absent and your kids’ll get zeroes on all their work. Or are you gonnna lie and just say they were sick.
@@
September 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm
He at least qualifies as a Republican.
As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I will always think fondly of Curt Schilling’s brave performance in 2004, bleeding through his sock while shutting down the New York Yankees on the way to winning the World Series for the first time since 1918.
He has the testicular fortitude to go the distance.
He REALLY felt the pain unlike dems who maintain it to enhance their political power.
Schilling? I have no idea who the guy is but his name would indicate he ought’a run on the dem ticket.
Good luck, Mr. Sox. Wasn’t that Bill Clinton’s cat’s name? or was it where Sandy Burglar hid the documents. I’ve heard tell it was in his pants. Bill wasn’t afraid to unzip his pants for close inspection.
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
3:01 pm
Oh damn. I soooo put that post on the wrong thread. What a dumbass.
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
3:05 pm
’s okay, Bosch. The other thread was played out. About 9am.
amateurs
September 3rd, 2009
3:07 pm
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
3:07 pm
Paul,
Geez –
“Gave as an example a member of the tribe dying and they left him and moved on.”
That’s cold. Can you imagine? Well, he’s dead, sucks for him…..move on.
I feel that imagination (or lack there of) is vital to human existence (or non-existence). I think people with very active imaginations are just plain happier.
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
3:11 pm
“Lack of imagination. The inability to see beyond immediacy and past the senses”
I’m trying to figure out how leaving a dead tribe member behind is an example of an inabilitiy to see beyond immediacy. He’s DEAD. Now leaving behind a living tribe member who is injured, but could be healed might fit the criteria, but not a dead member. Unless you think they could have eaten him or something.
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
3:11 pm
You can’t make this stuff up.
“Rep. Rangel Gave Campaign Contributions To 3 Dems On Ethics Committee — Charged With Investigating Him… ”
http://wcbstv.com/local/charles.rangel.ethics.2.1160326.html
Anyone wanna try again to explain to me how a campaign donation is not a bribe?
md
September 3rd, 2009
3:11 pm
They elected Romney, so Curt would have a chance. Talk about a bunch of fickle people.
Bosch
September 3rd, 2009
3:13 pm
Paul,
I can’t wait for the other Bosch to come home today and tell me all the stories of all the conservative teachers and how they flung a frakkin’ fit (say that five times fast) about this Obama thing.
jokerman
September 3rd, 2009
3:13 pm
Schilling graduated from Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona in 1985, before attending Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
Enough said .. This guy is not qualified to run the shake machine at the local dairy queen!
@@
September 3rd, 2009
3:13 pm
Joe Biden: The one thing I’ve learned is not to step on my boss’s lines.
DANG! That’s the one thing I luv about you Joe. You’ll be back to it in no time flat.
Nancy Pelosi: If there’s not a public option, there will have a TRIGGER!!?!! to implement one later.
Will that woman never learn?
Paul
September 3rd, 2009
3:14 pm
Doggone/GA
It had to do with no commemoration of life, of care for the deceased as a reflection of that which comes after.
It’s better to see something like that as it’s played out. BBC’s Walking With Cavemen. Worthwhile.
Bosch
“That’s cold”
That was also covered. Not cold. Just that they could not think of anything else. Dead is gone. Finality. No concept of anything else.
Like I said, atheists as the branch that died out…
josef nix
September 3rd, 2009
3:15 pm
There’s nothing quite as funny to me as the presentation of the Royal Kennedys as the products of some pristine process, elected by a population of erudite elite. They went into power on the votes of working class Joe Shmoes schooled in machine politics. Have we completely forgotten Edwin O’Conner’s rip-roaring classic “The Last Hurrah?”
AmVet–stop it already with the gratuitous Dixie bashing. Uncle Sam’s oldest colony has no market on morons and for every cretin we’ve produced, a giant of the opposite extreme can be listed. It’s too easy to just throw it out there and have it accepted as gospel the same as the sky being blue and the grass being green and it’s the same kind of bigoted stereotyping that has lead humanity down the road to h*ll on a regular basis. You’re a better man than that,
@@
September 3rd, 2009
3:16 pm
Italics not intended in 2nd paragraph. No application closer after the third but…
Turd Ferguson
September 3rd, 2009
3:20 pm
Poor Obobo…keeps stepping from one cow-patty to the next. One would think the smell of his own stinky feet would drive him to clean it up just a little.
Im thinking, for you dems, Sasha may have been a better choice.
Nothing is Free
September 3rd, 2009
3:21 pm
Bosch
**That prayer thing is kind of creepy.**
Excuse me? I was deep in meditation. Then I came into this sphere and read your laminations concerning the note that the barbaric and self centered Donna (isn’t that a white girl’s name?) would need to write in order to excuse our child-of-the-collective from standing in the light of peace and love transcending from the anointed one.
I wept and wept and wept. I knew that only the abandonment from this capitalistic and evil sphere would calm my soul.
It truly has.
It truly has.
Now what were you saying?
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
3:21 pm
If this is a repeat, I apologize…strange things are happening!
Here’s another question: That’d be a good comeback – “actually, you are the culmination of the recessive gene characteristics that long ago died out, unable to adapt”
Is that actually a quote from the show? Because if it is, they don’t know much about how to lose genes. An unwanted dominant is the easist thing to lose, but an unwanted recessive can be extremely difficult to get rid of.
dude
September 3rd, 2009
3:22 pm
http://yfrog.com/batokinsocialistj
md
September 3rd, 2009
3:23 pm
“tell me all the stories of all the conservative teachers”
You mean there are actually some left?
josef nix
September 3rd, 2009
3:24 pm
Paul/Doggone–how do we know what they did before saying goodbye and leaving? There may have been enough weeping and wailing to put an Irish wake to pale? I should think so.
md
September 3rd, 2009
3:25 pm
” they don’t know much about how to lose genes”
Sounds like my high school dating days.
jt
September 3rd, 2009
3:26 pm
This fresh breeze of a candidate doesn’t stand a chance against the next corrupt attorney or labor leader that the democratic political machine of Massachusetts will regurgitate to replace the latest one.
Remember Democrats- Credere, Obbidire, Combattere.
AmVet
September 3rd, 2009
3:27 pm
OK, josef, I am a better man that that. (Whatever THAT is!)
Paul,
Walking with Cavemen (subtitled My time working in the Bush White House!)
Man, I crack myself up…
md, at 3:11, good point. That one still kind of blows my mind. He did do some good stuff but IMHO, what an embarrassment as a presidential candidate.
But methinks we haven’t seen the last of the Perfect Hairdo…
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
3:27 pm
“There may have been enough weeping and wailing to put an Irish wake to pale? I should think so”
I’m always very suspicious of shows like that, that attempt to “recreate” the lives and emotions of very early humans. It’s mostly guessword anyway. Given that most group oriented animals will miss…however briefly…a dead member, it’s only too likely that so did early mankind. They may not have left any visible signs of that grief, but that doesn’t prove it didn’t exist.
Eric
September 3rd, 2009
3:27 pm
I just don’t understand the hatred from the right wing, the Christians, the conservatives. It almost seems as if they have this need to hate someone. Too bad their hatred is aimed at someone who is only trying to make life better for everyone in these not so United States. It’s tough to tolerate their hatred, but I think it’s even harder to tolerate thier stupidity. Oh well.
Doggone/GA
September 3rd, 2009
3:28 pm
oops: guessworK