Josh Q. Public:You’re still the one that makes me strong. Still the one I want to take along. We’re still having fun, and you’re still the one. -Orleans
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! Schill the Thrill. Taking the hill. Filling the bill. Still gots the skill. The skills to pay the bills. Last night, maybe for the last time in a Red Sox uniform, Curt Schilling went out and did what he does best. He went out and took over a World Series game. Sherman, set the way back machine to 1993. Ahh, 1993. Rodney King. Waco. Schindler’s List. Sienfeld. Das EFX. And Curt Schilling. Schilling was 27. Beckett’s age. Curt Schilling was Josh Beckett’s age when he made his first World Series start for the Fightin’ Phils. He got knocked around. Rocked around. Shocked around. He gave up seven runs to theBlue Jays in 61/3 innings. He hasn’t lost a World Series game since. Five days later, Schilling came back to shut out Toronto. The rest is history. Schilling now owns an 11-2 record and 2.23 ERA in the post season. He may have ceded his legendary status to Josh Beckett, but remember this, and never forget, Schilling is big game pitcher. Schilling came to Boston a champion. Schilling came to Boston a World Series MVP. He came. He saw. He conquered. Schilling: “I’m going to Boston to break an 86-year-old curse.” And break it he did. He may not have done it alone, but what he did in Game Six, against the Bombers, goes down as The Most Heroic Performance I’ve Ever Seen. The win against the Cardinals, icing on the cake. ####, and I do mean ####, not in a loving, Red Sox way, but in a stupid #### way, Kevin Millar, asked this: ‘’When he comes into the game, people cheer him like he’s the Pope…Why does he get a free pass?” Are you out of your goddamned mind, Kevin? Do you really need an answer to that? Schilling’s overall career in Boston has not been perfect for sure. He’s been hurt. He’s been about a .500 pitcher since 2004. But it’s games like last night. Big games. Important games. Imperative games. Games like that there. That’s why he gets a pass. If that was indeed the Thrill’s last game in a Red Sox uniform, it was fitting. Schilling: “I don’t think there’s anyone on the planet better than me in a game that matters.” I don’t either. Roll Sox roll!
Public Acknowledgements: Bill Burt, Beastie Boys, Mr. Peabody and Julius Caesar
Josh - Nice tribute! They gotta resign Shill. With Wakefield a question mark the starting rotation looks kinda thin. Beckett, Dice-K, Lester, ????, ????
How bout them Eagles. Perfect game plan. Lull them to sleep and pounce on them when they're not expecting it.
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Blue Jays in 61/3 innings. He hasn’t lost a World Series game since. Five days later, Schilling came back to shut out Toronto. The rest is history. Schilling now owns an 11-2 record and 2.23 ERA in the post season. He may have ceded his legendary status to Josh Beckett, but remember this, and never forget, Schilling is big game pitcher. Schilling came to Boston a champion. Schilling came to Boston a World Series MVP. He came. He saw. He conquered. Schilling: “I’m going to Boston to break an 86-year-old curse.” And break it he did. He may not have done it
alone, but what he did in Game Six, against the Bombers, goes down as The Most Heroic Performance I’ve Ever Seen. The win against the Cardinals, icing on the cake. 
