Curt Schilling Is Officially Dead To Me

As a little kid, I can fondly remember going to Veterans Stadium with my family to watch Phillies games. Even though it was at a point in the nineties when the Phils basically stunk (i.e. post-1993), I still had a good time watching my two favorite players on that team, second baseman Mickey Morandini and pitcher Curt Schilling.

But now Curt Schilling can sod off and die. Seriously. Him and his bloody sock can officially get out of my life, for good. Why is that you ask? Ashley Fox of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes.

Curt Schilling needed no prompting. The question was innocuous. Did he like this year's Phillies team?

"I think trading Cliff Lee was the stupidest thing they've ever done, and they didn't have to," Schilling said. "They didn't have to do it. It was a stupid, stupid move. They could've had a World Series berth locked up right now with those two guys at the top of their rotation."

"Those guys would've finished legitimately 1-2 [as] Cy Young candidates on the same staff," Schilling said. "You've got Cole Hamels in the three slot, which is a dream come true for both. They would've been a 110-win team."

"The Roy Halladay deal, I think, gave them the perception that they depleted their minor-league system," Schilling said. "That's one of those things now where, five years ago, so what? Now, your minor-league system ranking is such a big deal, because that speaks to your scouting and your drafting and all those things. It's a direct reflection on your general manager.

"If they hadn't made that [Lee] deal, I think they felt like their minor-league system would've been trashed, even though it wasn't. They still had a lot of talent. But it was to restock. If you draft right, you can literally restock your system in a year or two now.

"There's no other reason why they made that deal, none whatsoever. That's why they didn't push trying to re-sign Cliff, because I think they felt like he would've been real receptive to it, so then they would've looked even worse, because 'We traded a guy who wants to be here.' "

"He's coming off a phenomenal run when he came over," Schilling said of Lee. "He showed them [in] October he was going to be better than everybody else. You don't know what you're getting there. Doc's never pitched in October. I think he'll be great and be awesome and all that stuff, but he could get to October and not be the guy. Cliff proved that he can pitch in October. That's a big loss."

Uh, Curt, no one asked you about the Lee-Halladay deal. But seeing as he did completely ignore the question and go off on some unrelated rant about the trade, I shall remind him that pretty much every stat says that Roy Halladay is a better pitcher than Cliff Lee. Lee has had ups and downs in his career whereas Doc has been on top for virtually all of last decade. I'll take him over Lee any day of the week. While Schilling does make a somewhat sensible point about the Phillies farm system, again I ask him, who the fuck asked you about that? Curt Schilling can shut the f.......you know the rest of it.