Curt Schilling Stopped Being Fun the Moment He Stepped Off the Mound in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS
I know it's August. Dog days and all, and there's no novelty in watching El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago have another manic episode, this time in Pennsylvania, where we all paid for his travel to give what allegedly was supposed to be a speech about energy development and unsurprisingly became a campaign event. (The ever-essential Daniel Dale has all the details on the electric Twitter machine. My favorite part is when the president* talks about it being quite a crowd for an 11 o'clock rally, and it's actually 2:40. Draw a clock-face, sir.) I understand that you've heard quite enough from the Mooch and from politicians opining on their deep love of corn dogs, which taste like dead lizards.
But, for the love of god, don't take this nonsense seriously. From the Arizona Republic:
In a statement to The Arizona Republic, the former pitcher acknowledged he is weighing whether to enter politics. Schilling, an Arizona native who identifies himself as a Massachusetts resident, did not make clear which district he is considering.
"Not ready to do any of that right now. If/When things solidify I will but right now it's something in the 'I'm considering it' stage," Schilling wrote in an email. "The state is not the state I grew up in. Making Arizona citizens of EVERY Race, religion and sexual orientation 2nd class citizens to illegal immigrants is about as anti-American as it gets," he continued. "When you have homeless veterans, children, and you're spending tax dollars on people smuggling drugs and children across our border someone in charge needs their ass kicked."
C. Montague Schilling blocked me on the electric Twitter machine months ago, so I haven't had the pleasure of his many thoughts on the many things he doesn't know anything about for awhile now, but I do know one thing: the odds of his ever actually running for office lie somewhere between Slim and I'll Believe It When I See It.
He was endlessly yammering about running for the Senate in the Commonwealth (God save it!), and he never quite got around to doing it. This was because Senator Professor Warren would have hammered him as though he were a tent-spike, and Montague's ego couldn't have taken that. Now, he's claiming he's going to move back to purpling Arizona, pick a district, and run for Congress as the conservative alternative to, say, Paul Gosar? Yeah, that'll happen. I'm sure the collapse of his business and what it cost the state of Rhode Island won't come up during any campaign.
He stopped being fun the second he stepped off the mound in Game Six of the 2004 ALCS. He belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Plaques at least are mute.
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