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Today, ESPN.com columnist Bill “Sports Guy” Simmons interviews noted fat pitcher Curt Schilling via e-mail. It’s basically a huge blowjob from Sports Guy, but, whatever, that’s his schtick with the Red Sox and people like him.
Anyway, about midway through the piece, the ex-Phillie wrote something to Simmons that caught my eye (emphasis mine):
The thing that I find funny is that some of the better writers suck at their jobs from my standpoint: Shaughnessy and [Bill] Conlin are two that come to mind…. Bill Conlin had (not sure if he still does) a Hall of Fame vote the year Nolan Ryan was up. Bill wrote a column the day after the voting on why he DIDN’T vote for Nolan Ryan on the first ballot. At best, it was repulsive. Bill used his Hall of Fame vote to promote his agenda, which was that if Don Sutton didn’t get voted in first ballot, then Nolan Ryan didn’t deserve to get voted in, either. As if the HOF ballots were his personal right to make statements. So he took 26 years of Nolan’s career and used his vote to make a statement about his opinions on Don Sutton. Sad, really. But in a nutshell, that’s Bill Conlin now anyway — bitter and sad. [Editor's note: Conlin did explain in print why he did not vote for Ryan, but he did not mention Don Sutton.]
Conlin will have his revenge, though. One day, Curt Schilling will be fatter than Bill ever was.
Disclaimer: Not that I’m even defending Conlin here, but I must confess: On live TV in 2003, Bill Conlin did ask me if I invented the “SoBig” virus. I’m not kidding.
Curious Guy: Curt Schilling [ESPN.com Page 2]
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I agree with your take on Simmon’s BJ on Schilling. I used to like Simmons a lot, now he has an actual ego that leads him to believe he can recycle jokes 5 times.
You need to find a picture of Schilling. Not fat anymore. Watch out in 2006 as Phillies sink to the bottom. Simmons is a Sox fax. What do you expect from him. Why is everyone so jealous of Schilling?