Last night during the Orioles/Red Sox game, MASN announcer Gary Thorne alleged that Curt Schilling’s bloody sock from game six of the 2004 ALCS was not in fact bloody. He claims that Doug Mirabelli, the Red Sox backup catcher at the time, told him that it was paint. I’m going to keep this short and sweet: we don’t REALLY know if it was or not, and without a forensic investigation we’ll never know. I don’t necessarily believe Gary Thorne but at the same time I’m not really ready to say he’s wrong. What do I know? It comes down to the fact that we all WANT to believe that it was blood and that Schilling fought through the pain and turned in a great start. The fact that we all want to believe and now Thorne has splashed cold water on us doesn’t make him a bad person. Maybe Mirabelli did tell him. Maybe he was joking – albeit this is unlikely. Either way, it’s a lot about nothing. I think it was blood and you can think whatever you’d like to think. The nation seems to think it was blood but is a little unsure as well. And you wonder why some players don’t like the press. Didn’t this happen 2 1/2 years ago?
Unanimously ununanimous.
Something to note: 85% of people in Massachusetts think the blood is blood. Meaning 15% do not. Arguing this with a Red Sox fan has got to be like arguing with Iran that the Holocaust occurred, which leads me to two conclusions: the Iranians are crazy and Red Sox fans take this shit WAY too seriously.
