Change in Thinking

I'm feelin' a little cynical today.


Are you referring to some semblance of loyalty...













(Yeah, he did come back to the team that drafted him 18 years later.)

Or are you referring to the change in thinking that the owner doesn't have to spend so much?

I'm not sure this is trend setting. And if it were what would be the benefits? The Ripkens and Pucketts who play for only one organization are very rare indeed. It's a little late for Curt to wanna be like Cal or Kirby.


Sorry for the 'tude.

No need to apologize

By the way I have no use for CAL at all


But you are entitled

TR, what's your beef with CAL. Is it because he is a good businessman and has taken advantage of his baseball career to make post MLB $$$$$$ ?

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Originally posted by TRhit:
...I have no use for CAL at all

BLASPHEMY!

Not that I will strongly disagree with you, but this won't make the baseball gods very happy.

But you are entitled

He is a god in Boston. He also has a video game development firm there and other business interests. His wife and kids like it there and they have a skin pigmentation genetic problem making them extra UV sensitive and skin cancer prone, so the frozen dark north is a good place for the Shillings.

Schilling just wanted to come home. He started in the Red Sox organization. He was traded aoong with another prospect (Brady Anderson) for Mike Boddicker.

While Schilling is a self promoter the only situations he had control over were Philadelphia and Arizona. He asked out of Philadelphia for lack of commitment to winning. Arizona wanted to lower it's payroll. He volunteered to leave.

Schilling is big on baseball history. He named one of his kids Gehrig. I believe he appreciates being part of the Red Sox - Yankees rivalry.