Curt Schilling was a very good, often dominating, major league baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox. As a New York Yankees fan, I had many opportunities to lament that he pitched for the opposing team. But he’s dumber than a burlap bag of hammers and he’s not going to defeat Elizabeth Warren or launch any kind of presidential campaign in four years.
“One of the things I’d like to do is be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics,” Schilling told WRKO radio in Boston, according to The Providence Journal.
Schilling recently hinted at his future political aspirations in a comment thread on his Facebook page. He said he’d run for state office first, and then the White House in eight years. But if Hillary Clinton were elected, he said, he’d make a run for the presidency in four years.
As early as 2004, Massachusetts Republicans were talking about recruiting Schilling (who was still pitching for the Red Sox) to run against John Kerry. It’s like a fixation, as if helping to break the Curse of the Bambino means that Bay Staters would line up to vote for a moron who doesn’t believe in evolution, is opposed to gay marriage, and is too much of an intolerant jerk to be employable as a commentator for the Little League World Series.
Schilling’s only non-baseball related claims to fame are arguing with people on Twitter and taking a bunch of money from the Rhode Island government for a project that went belly up.
In July 2010, the Rhode Island Board of Economic Development approved a $75 million guaranteed loan to 38 Studios. 38 Studios promised to bring 450 jobs to the state by the end of 2012. In May 2012, 38 Studios defaulted on its loan from the state of Rhode Island and failed to meet payroll obligations to its employees. 38 Studios and its subsidiary, Big Huge Games, then laid off their staffs with a mass email. Some of the laid-off employees may have second mortgages because the company had not actually sold homes for them as part of a relocation package. Some have accused Schilling of hypocrisy based on the conflict between his professed views on “big government” and the studio’s relationship with “big government”. On November 1, 2012, Schilling was sued by the state in connection with the loan. Governor Lincoln Chafee said: “My message to Rhode Islanders is this: I know that you work hard for your paychecks, and for your tax dollars to be squandered is unacceptable. The Board’s legal action was taken to rectify a grave injustice put upon the people of Rhode Island.”
Of course, Schilling blamed Gov. Chafee for his own lack of business sense.
The guy is basically unemployable and he wants to be the president of the United States.
I do want to point out Kingdoms of Amalur was a solid game with some interesting ideas. It sold well… for a new IP. But to expect it to recoup all the expenses under inexperienced management… well I don’t care how good the Amalur MMO assets looked, Schilling was in completely over his head.
I’ll always love him for destroying ultimate evil, but I hope Warren hands him his head on a silver platter.
Looks like a pretty generic WoW knockoff.
I assure you it isnt. To begin with its a single player game and draws more inspiration from Elder Scrolls series than anything from Blizzard.
I’ve always wanted to play it but never got around to it. It was very well reviewed.
“The guy is basically unemployable and he wants to be the president of the United States.”
When has that ever stopped a Republican from running for office? Sometimes they even manage to get elected or, in the case of one particular village idiot, appointed.
Trump will inflame the ambitions of many many alt right heroes.
It will be his legacy.
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If Schilling were currently pitching, I’d say he had a pretty good chance at winning. I don’t think people really believe just how much some people in MA adore the Sox. Think Alabama and Tide/Auburn Football.
However, he ISN’T pitching. And he’s a jerk. And not that damn bright. And pretty much everybody in MA actually likes Warren (some of them wouldn’t vote for her on a dare, but to quote a fervent TP’er: “she’s got moxie”).
I guess nothing is sacred and there are no sure things, but I do believe Schilling winning over Warren would qualify as one of the less believable.
The only stronger feeling mass sports fans experience than the love of the Red Sox and Patriots is the hatred for sports figures who choose to be wingnuts. Curt could still be pitching and he’d still get destroyed running as a RWNJ.
He’s a jock. Therefore he can do no wrong and everyone idolizes him. Just ask those pinhead swimmers down in Rio.
I’d pay money to see him and Derek Jeter debate!
If you are going to dream, dream big.
As someone who has run unsuccessfully several times for political office, it is a lot harder to win in a political contest than it looks. If you focus on the winner, you are gonna be confused and dump a lot of money into a losing situation (your own election). Twice was enough for me.
Although I was more qualified than my opponent, she beat me like a drum. So, I was wrong.
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Sounds like he’s following in Trump’s stumbling footsteps.
I’m betting there’s going to be an absolute stampede of celebrity fascist fucknuts who want to be the next Trump in 2020; I doubt Schilling will stand out from the rest of the pack.
Yep. Win or lose, I’m guessing that if you’re an extreme right wing but rather calm “serious” person like Paul Ryan or governor Walker, you’re SOL. Or Ted Cruz for that matter. Ben Carson with his two weeks at the top of the Iowa opinion polls kind of proves that everyone can have their moment in the sun in Iowa.
Curt Shilling and Victoria Jackson are going to the state fair.
White supremacist stabs interracial couple after seeing them kiss at bar, police say
“He tells them, `Yeah, I stabbed them. I’m a white supremacist,'” Lower said. “He begins talking about Donald Trump rallies and attacking people at the Black Lives Matter protest.”
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police said Rowe’s behavior grew stranger as officers tried to wrestle him into the back of a patrol car.
“He tells them, `Yeah, I stabbed them. I’m a white supremacist,'” Lower said. “He begins talking about Donald Trump rallies and attacking people at the Black Lives Matter protest.”
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According to court documents obtained by the Olympian, Rowe, who was unconscious when police encountered him, had tattoos that read “skinhead,” “white power” and “hooligan.” One tattoo showed the Confederate flag.
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“This has all the hallmarks of a hate crime,” Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Wheeler said
Well, if it isn’t a hate crime, it certainly is suspicious behavior.
Obviously a lone nutter, mentally ill, with no political implications.
/sarcasm
And of course a local news station went with the headline, “Black Lives Matter may have led to stabbing” in reporting this.
Sure, his experience in business fraud is somewhat limited compared to the generic GOP candidate, I don’t know that he’s under active DOJ investigation, but you can certainly see the elements of a strong vanity run.