Red Sox pitcher to run against Kerry?
posted at 12:08 am on January 27, 2007 by Ian
A pitch for Red Sox ace Curt Schilling to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate.
Today’s Boston Herald reports there’s a move to draft Schilling as Kerry’s opponent in the 2008 senate race.
The most interesting piece of information:
An online poll of 800 voters has Schilling leading Kerry by 96 percent.
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Well that’d be an improvement. Of course that would ensure the Republicans stay in the desert for 86 years, but hell, no more Lurch.
Iblis on January 27, 2007 at 12:14 AM
Now, he DEFINATELY will have the BALLS… and bats… and gloves…
ok, bed time. I’m tired.
Mazztek on January 27, 2007 at 12:19 AM
A Schilling for a shill!
Can we get Tom Brady to run against Kennedy?
SouthernGent on January 27, 2007 at 12:20 AM
By the way, I went to High School with his brother, if I have he right Schillings.
Mazztek on January 27, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Nice!
RightWinged on January 27, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Bean ball!
Aim for the spot that needs botox!
TwinkietheKid on January 27, 2007 at 12:24 AM
A few years ago, Baseball had some system in place where they used cameras and computers to verify the accuracy of the plate umpire’s calls. Some people did not like the system because they felt the umps were too worried about being second-guessed and were not calling good games. Shilling was one of those people. He had a bad game in Phoenix one night, and after he was pulled, he smashed one of the cameras on the way to the locker room.
He should use that experience to show that he is against “government” interference in our lives…..
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2007 at 12:28 AM
His campaign should show repeatedly Kerry failing to get the ball to home plate when he threw out the first pitch during the Donk Convention in 2004. They need to play the soundtrack of the Bostonians booing him for being such a candy ass.
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2007 at 12:30 AM
F**k Kerry. Go to Washington and hang with Jane Fonda you EFFING S.O.B.
joeswampy on January 27, 2007 at 12:30 AM
If he makes it to the Senate, he could establish a caucus with Jim Bunning. “The Ex-Jock Caucus.” Too bad Steve Largent is not in the House any longer. Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley could be a members emeritus.
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2007 at 12:33 AM
So it would be the Magic Hat vs the Bloody Sock…
rw on January 27, 2007 at 12:36 AM
Hey joe, why not tell us how you really feel :)
CharlestonCritic on January 27, 2007 at 12:46 AM
Man, think of the headlines you could write for that race.
The Jock versus the Jerk!
Strapping Jock versus Jock Strap!
Kerry: No balls and 3 strikes! You’re outta there!
:)
austinnelly on January 27, 2007 at 12:54 AM
CharlestonCritic on January 27, 2007 at 12:46
joeswampy on January 27, 2007 at 12:57 AM
I am biased since I am a Red-Sox fan.
However…
You have a liar and a man (I say that word loosely) that is a joke when it comes to integrity/performance.
VS
A man that has integrity, performs, and is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good (game six of the 2004 ALCS).
Not a hard decision IMO.
I hope he does run.
PS Insert the obligatorily “Yankees Suck” comment now.
PSS Do I get banned by Allah because I am a Red-Sox fan?
F15Mech on January 27, 2007 at 1:21 AM
As a baseball fan, I welcome any mention of Curt Schilling-he’s a pretty decent guy. This may be off season wishing, but I’m sure he would be very popular.
As for Kerry and Kennedy-I would love to see them both handed their hats and be told to scram.
Term limits would keep these flatulence-minded fools from ossifying into their present useless state. What do you think of cutting the pensions of all members of Congress and the President? The Honeypot is too sweet already. If public servants actually were servants of the people, limited to two terms, they would still be young enough to go out and make their fortune, their way in the world. It should be like the Israeli military: do your hitch as servants of the state and get out.
Doug on January 27, 2007 at 1:34 AM
Heh. The award for Best Headline I’ve Seen In A While goes to austinnelly.
techno_barbarian on January 27, 2007 at 1:39 AM
what can I say?
Schilling put in a gutsy performance and brought the first world title to boston baseball in 88 years (i think that’s the number)
When’s the last time Kerry brought anything half that good to Boston?
Hell I want to run Dave Roberts against Ted Kennedy!!!
Defector01 on January 27, 2007 at 1:44 AM
F15Mech on January 27, 2007 at 1:56 AM
I ment to say
Was 86 years but it felt like 88 years :)
Note sure why it ended up as a quote.
F15Mech on January 27, 2007 at 1:59 AM
What little I know of Schilling outside of baseball is that he is very pro-military. So he would be a great replacement for Senator Kerry
William Amos on January 27, 2007 at 2:10 AM
Jim Bunning!
He threw a Perfect Game on Father’s day, June 21, 1964, at Shea Stadium, New York, against the New York Mets! The Phillies won, 6-0, while Jim Bunning struck out 10 batters.
Jim Bunning also hit a double that day, while Johnny Callison, one of the greatest right fielders of all time, an all star, with one of the strongest arms in the history of outfielders – he played the same position as the great Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates who died in a plane crash. Johnny Callison recently passed away. Johnny threw so hard, had such a strong arm, that his arm was nicknamed “The Rifle Arm of Johnny Callison” and many a player would fear being tossed out trying for extra bases when the ball was hit near Johnny Callison.
I watched the Father’s day perfect game with my father, grandfather, uncles, mom, grandmother, sister, cousins, etc., at my grandmother and grandfather’s home way back when. It was really fun to see, especially since I was a big baseball fan, a Little League player and Connie Mack league player at that time in my life.
I was also a big fan of Jim Ryun, for I loved middle and long distance running back in high school, the time that Jim Ryun was making waves and shattering the record in the mile. I also ran the mile, the half mile, and cross country and I had hopes that I could train enough to achieve greatness and run a sub 4:00 mile as well.
Maybe Jim Ryun of Kansas, former world record holder back in the 1960s in the mile run at 3:51:1, holder until recently for the high school mile run record, 3:55, and former world record 1500 meters record holder, will join forces with Jim Bunning, and Curt Schilling and we will see some action!
Who knows?
William
William2006 on January 27, 2007 at 2:23 AM
I know I’m ignorant here, but what does Joan Jett have to do with this?
R D on January 27, 2007 at 2:28 AM
Nevermind. The ad disappeared.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 2:33 AM
Schilling vs Kerry? Is there any doubt?
R D on January 27, 2007 at 2:38 AM
That Kerry and Kennedy are both elected to the Senate shows me that the best of the best do not make it into the Senate, that low quality candidates make it into the Senate, that being connected helps a great deal, and that having tons of money and influential families and friends, helps one get elected.
William
William2006 on January 27, 2007 at 2:47 AM
Term Limits! Get new blood in there! Hey, you can even limit it to just 12 years. That would purge a lot of crap.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 3:02 AM
Schilling is a good guy, but that double peckered lizard has as good a chance at winning as Schilling does in Assachutes.
Scot on January 27, 2007 at 3:18 AM
No surprise. Schilling has a much better history of performance in the clutch.
Athos on January 27, 2007 at 4:25 AM
So he can throw a ball. But can he wind-surf? What does he know about ketchup?
bdfaith on January 27, 2007 at 5:07 AM
Iblis,
Hey, Curt broke the curse!
Oh, and he can’t run until after the Sox win the ’07 series.
Pablo on January 27, 2007 at 5:29 AM
As much as Taxachussets likes sending communists to Washington, they’re rabid sports fans and they LOVE Schilling. If they’ll elect Romney for Governor, they’d elect Curt for God.
Pablo on January 27, 2007 at 5:36 AM
This would be sooooo sweet!!
First the curse.. then the curse… just one left after that
Viper1 on January 27, 2007 at 6:34 AM
Let me think…. One man gets wounded and LEAVES his team behind while the other man gets wounded and LEADS his team to victory.
Wade on January 27, 2007 at 8:39 AM
Schilling:
“Time for a change up!”
shermacman on January 27, 2007 at 8:48 AM
I don’t know . . .I doubt that the ketchup lady would allow him to lose because then he’d have nothing to do but stay home all day with her. For her, the senate is equivalent to paid day care.
rplat on January 27, 2007 at 8:55 AM
I heard the dems might put Jeter up against him.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 9:01 AM
Well he lead a guild on Everquest so he’s already more qualified than Kerry.
frreal on January 27, 2007 at 9:12 AM
BoSox vs. Botox!
TugboatPhil on January 27, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Hell anyone who has ever lived in Boston knows that being a pitcher for the Sox is way more prestigious than being a Senator.
Duh.
As for:
Let me think…who would know what really happened in these circumstances? The team-mates one would assume. Unless of course those guys who were actually on Kerry’s boat contradict the story that supports your particular delusion.
What a bunch of crap.
honora on January 27, 2007 at 10:46 AM
where do I send a contribution?
robo on January 27, 2007 at 11:03 AM
Hey! All this commentary and can anyone tell the rest of us (hoping there are more out there than just me who don’t know) what Party Shilling is registered with? Dems? Any comments on his positions or is this all arctic winter cabin fever rumor?
How long can Kennedy hold on, too? Massachusetts is getting a weird similarity to North Korea. The residents of that moribund over taxed state are under the delusion that the whole country is as bad as they are, and tax expenditures favor the desires of the urban elites in Boston – think what all that money that has and is still going into the Big Dig would have done if it had been spread around the state instead of sunk into a hole in downtown Boston, just so the Bostonians can have a pretty view from their penthouse apartments. The 49 states that coughed up to pay for the Big Dig ought to pass voter propositions to demand that Congress order Masachusetts pay back that money. Massachusetts would be a pauper state in about a week.
naliaka on January 27, 2007 at 11:24 AM
I would be satisfied that in exchange for the paying for the Big Dig, the voters of Massachussetts have to elect someone other than Senators Bloviate and Waffles. Seems like a bargin on our part.
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Unfortunately for Sox fans, the total collapse last summer brought the curse back. They went a bit crazy pay 100 mil for a guy with no big league experience
Iblis on January 27, 2007 at 11:58 AM
The bunch of crap is Kerry did leave his duties early. That is a fact and not disputable.
Wade on January 27, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Can’t believe I forgot to mention this.
Outside of all the other reasons to hate John Kerry, he really put the nail in his own coffin (in my mind) when, in traditionally liberal and especially Kerry fashion he screwed up when pandering to the Red Sox audience.
Kerry was asked who his favorite Red Sox player was (you remember, the week where he wore a Sox cap everywhere he went… ugh, makes me want to puke just thinking about how pathetic it was)… Anyway, his answer? “Manny Ortiz”!!! Who? Look two of the best hitters on the team (and in baseball for that matter) are Manny Ramirez and David “Big Papi” Ortiz, but they are not one person. This mistake is the type of mistake you’d expect a girlfriend who you forced to watch a game with you once a month to make. Not some a-hole guy who claims to be a big fan, shows up at a few games fishing for votes and parades around the country for a week bragging about what a big fan he is. This wasn’t his only sports folly, but it’s probably the most annoying.
RightWinged on January 27, 2007 at 12:11 PM
He speaks his mind, no nuance, strong convictions, his wife keeps her yapper shut, he’s got my vote.
Alden Pyle on January 27, 2007 at 12:14 PM
LOL, another blown line. I believe those are honest mistakes. Probably caused by his 3 scratches he got “in Country” for which this war hero (responsible for the death of millions in Cambodia and Nam) got his purple hearts and his right to leave the troops behind so he could come home and lie about the troops. What a coward and a disgrace to our nation.
Wade on January 27, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Schilling: humble, Kerry not
Schilling: supports the troops, Kerry not
Schilling a regular sports guy, Kerry not and not
Alden Pyle on January 27, 2007 at 12:31 PM
not and especially not
Schilling’s wife keeps her yap shut, Kerry’s not, eeeeew
Alden Pyle on January 27, 2007 at 12:34 PM
A Republican will never unseat a ranking Democrat in the Senate in Massachusetts. Ever. Now, if Schilling ran as a Democrat, he’d probably win the primary in a walk.
spmat on January 27, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Good, he can say he is against photo-radar!!!!!
Tim Burton on January 27, 2007 at 1:43 PM
Shilling’s more of a warrior that Kerry ever was.
infidel4life on January 27, 2007 at 1:48 PM
I doubt Schilling would say something like this:
(CBS News) Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become “a sort of international pariah.”
He said it while standing next to the former Iranian president during a speech in Switzerland
Opinionnation on January 27, 2007 at 1:50 PM
I hardly put any weight to an online poll, but it is amusing to note. I haven’t got any idea what his politics are, but they have got to be better than pariah boy over there.
Jewels on January 27, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Flavor of the month. Hope he’s sponsored by bigger interests than Kerry or he doesn’t have a chance.
Emmett J. on January 27, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Kerry has done us another service by confirming that if he ever gained the Presidency he would never put America first. He should be shot as a traitor.
swassociates on January 27, 2007 at 3:30 PM
Probably not, but you will likely have to smell his farts about ’86 if you insist on pimping the BlowSox.
I will say this, as a Yankee fan. I’d take the bloody sock over the kept man 8 days of the week. Schill would absolutely crush Kerry, no doubt about it.
Now, if only Tom Brady ran for the Chappaquiddick seat…
Kid from Brooklyn on January 27, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Let’s not foget Kerry’s insult of Packer fans either when he called legendary Lambeau Field Lambert Field. You know, Bush may not pronounce nuculer nuclear, but he wouldn’t mangle a sports name or team. Schilling would be a formidable opponent. I’m usually not a fan of drafting a “name” recognition candidate but considering the dem opponent and the state we’re talking about I’m all for this one. And besides, the Schill is a smart guy. He made the right call in supporting Bush in 04 so maybe he’ll make the right call again by sending Francois Kerry to France in retirement………..
ritethinker on January 27, 2007 at 7:02 PM
If you had ever spent time in a small boat unit, you’d know that you don’t have to actually be ON a particular boat to know what’s going on with the crew. They operate in very close quarters and crews are often shuffled during a day or week to make up for personnel losses for various reasons.
If you’re suggesting that the Swiftboat Vets were crap, you’re wrong. I’ll take their word over John “effin” Kerry and his paid minions any day.
Swiftboat is still a noun to me, and an honorable one at that.
TugboatPhil on January 27, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Unfortunately, William, Representative Ryun was one of the Republicans who lost to a Democrat in the last election. This leaves our Congressional delegation evenly split between Republicans and Democrats for the first time since 1995. Fortunately, we’ve still got two Republican Senators.
Perhaps he can be persuaded to run again, but it’s rare for a defeated incumbent to do so.
The Monster on January 27, 2007 at 8:56 PM
This is one Yankees fan that would be more than glad to say…
GO SCHILLING!!!
BigOrangeAxe on January 27, 2007 at 9:28 PM
Well, at least this guy can pitch.
Speakup on January 27, 2007 at 11:07 PM
Heh. F*ck Kerry.
Jaibones on January 28, 2007 at 11:51 AM
I liked Schilling ever sine I was at Game 4 of the 2001 World Series. he walked in from the bullpen before the game started after taking his warm up and the music being played was “We Will Rock You” and he walked so calmly in front of the Yankee fans as if he did not have a care in the world. Also I liked the fact that he called out Alex Rodriguez for his Bush-league play of slapping the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s glove in game 6.
Hilts on January 28, 2007 at 12:49 PM
A Major League Pitcher against a Major League Traitor?
A No-Brainer!
franksalterego on January 28, 2007 at 1:00 PM
When told that the Boston Red Sox had won the 2004 World Series, Senator Kerry commented:
“Well, you know, I was FOR that curse thing before I was AGAINST it.”
CyberCipher on January 28, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Curt just announced he’s pitching in ’08. Kerry is safe.
Malpaso on January 29, 2007 at 9:28 AM