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Thorne: Schilling's sock was painted
Topic Started: Apr 26 2007, 11:23 AM (86 Views)
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Report: Schilling, Bosox bloody mad at O's announcer
NBCSports.com staff reportPosted: Apr.26, 2007, 9:05 am EDT
The Boston Red Sox organization is fuming at Baltimore Orioles play-by-play announcer Gary Thorne over his claims that the bloody sock that Curt Schilling wore in the 2004 World Series was nothing more than paint, the Boston Globe reported.

During the Red Sox-Orioles game Wednesday night, Thorne mentioned the bloody sock that Schilling wore during Game 6 of the ALCS against the New York Yankees and said that he'd been told by Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli that was not blood, but paint. It was done for the public relations effect, Thorne said.


"The great story we were talking about the other night was that famous red stocking that he wore when they finally won, the blood on his stocking," Thorne said to broadcast partner Jim Palmer, the Hall of Fame pitcher, in a conversation that had begun with a discussion of Schilling's blog.

"Nah," Thorne said. "It was painted. Doug Mirabelli confessed up to it after. It was all for PR. Two-ball, two-strike count."

During a break two innings later, Thorne confirmed to the paper that's what he said, and that Mirabelli had told him so in a conversation "a couple of years ago."

"Go ask him [Mirabelli]," Thorne told the Globe.

Mirabelli was shocked, then angry, when relayed Thorne's comments.

"What? Are you kidding me? He's [expletive] lying. A straight lie," Mirabelli told The Globe. "I never said that. I know it was blood. Everybody knows it was blood."

Sox manager Terry Francona told the paper, "What we're going through today as a nation, you hate to use a word like heroic on the field, but what Schill did that night on the sports field was one of the most incredible feats I ever witnessed. [Thorne's remarks] go so far past disappointing. Disrespectful to Schill, to his vocation. I'm stunned."

"It gets stupider," Schilling said with a tone of resignation in his voice. "I got the 9-inch scar for you. You can see it.

"There are some bad people in your line of work, man."

The sock is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y .

Sox CEO Larry Lucchino wrote the following e-mail: "I have never heard any such thing internally, and I refuse to believe it now," Lucchino wrote. "It was a courageous moment for Curt Schilling and a glorious moment for the Red Sox, and it shouldn't be sullied with such speculation now."

A Sox official said that the team may seek a retraction, the paper reported.


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Isn't Gary Thorne a hockey guy?
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Anyone who didn't know this already is stupid. maybe there was some real blood from the shot they gave him or something, but that is literally the most overblown injury in the history of sports.
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Apr 26 2007, 04:08 PM
Anyone who didn't know this already is stupid. maybe there was some real blood from the shot they gave him or something, but that is literally the most overblown injury in the history of sports.

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Nobody plays sh*t up better than that idiot Schilling.
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Apr 26 2007, 03:09 PM
Isn't Gary Thorne a hockey guy?

Thorne does baseball too and is very good at. He's the one who said "hold on to the roof" or something to that effect when Donnie Baseball HRed in the 95 playoffs...of course you were probably watching soccer :amit:
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Feck Torre for that sh*t too. We should have bunted and bunted and bunted until his fecking ankle broke off..But NOOOOOOOOOO..We let him just stand in there and throw daggers at us. Not one bunt, no trying to move the guy off his point...Just a total fecking coma.

You think Billy Martin wouldnt have abused Schilling and his ankle until that fecker got carried off the mound?

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Apr 26 2007, 05:59 PM
Feck Torre for that sh*t too. We should have bunted and bunted and bunted until his fecking ankle broke off..But NOOOOOOOOOO..We let him just stand in there and throw daggers at us. Not one bunt, no trying to move the guy off his point...Just a total fecking coma.

You think Billy Martin wouldnt have abused Schilling and his ankle until that fecker got carried off the mound?

:annoyed:

That would be so ungentlemanly. :laugh2:
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