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Bluenose BoSox Brotherhood
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008
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Schilling's Season Maybe Career Over
Just when you think that things as a sports fan
can’t get any better. The Celtics have won their
17th title. Their victory parade was viewed by
millions (including this Nova Scotian on TV) on a
beautiful Boston day. The Red Sox even with
several key injuries enjoying so far a very good
season with JD Drew proving he is in fact worth
the millions he is getting paid. The sun has been
shining bright over the heads of Boston sports
fans from Cape Cod to Cape Breton. Then we learn
today Friday, June 20, 2008 that Curt Schilling
has to have season ending surgery and has
probably thrown his last pitch as a big leaguer
and most definitely as a Red Sox.
It seems like yesterday that Curt was talked
into coming to Boston over a Thanksgiving Day
dinner with Theo. His arrival to Boston coming
along with a truck commercial that announced he
had to get to Boston to help bring a World Series
win to the Sox and then have the gall to win 20
games, suffer a devastating ankle injury yet
having himself stitched together and risk his
career to make it happen. The results of the
injury making the 2005 season one of just trying
to recover. He managed to end that season with
a .500 record but with an ERA of 5.69. He
rebounded in 2006 posting a 15 win season and
lowering his ERA to 3.97. The 2007 season
resulted in only a 9-8 record but he again
lowered his ERA, this time to 3.87. More
importantly though, he had a couple of excellent
games in the playoffs and the Sox captured
another World Series. Two World Series in the
four years he has been a Red Sox player certainly
will always keep him very high in the heart of
the this Red Sox fan.
Perhaps more importantly than even his role in
World Series success has been his role in helping
with the causes of the fight against ALS and skin
cancer. I will never forget the day that a Nova
Scotia government official e-mailed me and told
me about a friend of his who was suffering from
ALS. He asked me if there would be any
possibility of one of the Red Sox perhaps e-
mailing this person, who is a big Sox fan, a
message of goodwill. I was able to send a note to
Curt who did not e-mail the man but phoned him
the very next day to offer him a message of hope.
The man was thrilled to no end and told me so in
person when we met during the Red Sox World
Series Trophy tour to Nova Scotia. The fellow
told me that he was able to record Curt’s message
and plays it on a daily basis to help him stay
positive as he battles this devastating illness.
Thanks Curt for all you have done as a Red Sox
player and as a human being. You have brought
joy, inspiration and hope to so many who suffer
from this disease on both sides of the 49th. He
is a hero to many for much more than his ability
to throw a baseball. By the way, I never judge a
man by who he supports politically but by how he
acts himself towards others.
Mr. Schilling was one of the first people
from the Sox to offer our Nova Scotia group, the
Bluenose BoSox Brotherhood, congratulations on
our formation a few years ago. From here on
Canada’s Ocean Playground, we offer him all the
best for his surgery and recovery. Oh and by the
way, wouldn’t he make a great pitching coach if
in fact his days as an active pitcher are over.
Posted 09:38
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