Schilling rips Bonds

[Old School]

Schilling rips Bonds in interview with WEEI

May 8, 2007
BOSTON (TICKER) -- Barry Bonds never has admitted to using steroids. Apparently, Curt Schilling believes he has.

The outspoken pitcher of the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday took some verbal shots at Bonds, who needs 12 homers to break Hank Aaron's all-time home run record.

Bonds has been at the center of baseball's ongoing steroids controversy, but never has admitted to knowingly taking steroids.

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Schilling must have thought otherwise during an interview with WEEI on Tuesday.

"He (Bonds) admitted he used steroids. There's no gray area," Schilling said on WEEI. "He (Bonds) admitted cheating on his wife, cheating on taxes and cheating on the game."

On December 4, 2003, Bonds was one of several athletes forced to testify as part of the BALCO case, which centered around the San Francisco-area lab, its founder Victor Conte, and Greg Anderson - Bonds' personal trainer and longtime friend.

Anderson was indicted for illegal distribution of steroids. Bonds told the grand jury that he believed Anderson had given him flaxseed oil and arthritic balm, a substance that turned out to contain steroids. :mj07:

A book released in 2006 by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, "Game of Shadows" alleges Bonds engaged in persistent doping, taking four different kinds of steroids as well as insulin and human growth hormone during 2001 alone, when he hit 73 homers to break Mark McGwire's single-season record. :scared :scared

The accusations have clouded Bonds' pursuit of Aaron's record of 755 homers. Aaron has said he will not be in attendance when Bonds attempts to break the record.

"Hank Aaron not being there, the commissioner (Bud Selig) not knowing where he's going to be, it's sad," Schilling told WEEI. "I don't care if he's black, green, purple or yellow or whatever. It's just unfortunate there's good people and bad people."

A seven-time National League MVP, Bonds has 10 homers this season, raising his career total to 744.

Bonds, 43, reportedly failed an amphetamines test last season, and the New York Daily News reported that Bonds attributed the positive test results to a substance he took from the locker of teammate Mark Sweeney.

Bonds later absolved Sweeney of any involvement but never commented on whether or not he took amphetamines. :SIB





Updated on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 5:36 pm EDT

 

[Old School]

Curt just being Curt..or is that..

Manny just being Manny...or is it..

Barry just being Barry...:com:


Can't wait to read and hopefully see how BIG NECK laughs off these comments..

SHOULD BE A CLASSIC..

 

[DZL]

yeah, well - schilling has the biggest mouth in all of sports...

If he's going to bash Bonds, he better be just as willing to bash everyone else who used performance enhancing drugs in the MLB -

If he can write a 10-page short story on his blog about every minutiae of detail of his road trip to Baltimore; I'm sure he can sit down and out everyone else's transgressions - including MLBer's who cheat on their wives and taxes.

Now that would be a long blog entry.

 

[vinnie]

rope a dope bonds is a dope :00hour

 

[Old School]

yeah, well - schilling has the biggest mouth in all of sports...

If he's going to bash Bonds, he better be just as willing to bash everyone else who used performance enhancing drugs in the MLB -

If he can write a 10-page short story on his blog about every minutiae of detail of his road trip to Baltimore; I'm sure he can sit down and out everyone else's transgressions - including MLBer's who cheat on their wives and taxes.

Now that would be a long blog entry.

..and truly a great read...

 

[IntenseOperator]

Wonder if Barry will come after him legally:mj07:

His track record to this point says otherwise.

 

[shamrock]

heard this live this morning, classic stuff. Schilling does show every Tuesday morning.

 

[RexBudler]

Schilling is a fukn douchebag

 

[giambi]

I concurr schilling is a douchebag he loves the spotlight.........BUUUUT he is right about this I cant' believe pitchers pitch to him I would not allow him to try and break that record, but at least Arod will break legally after BARIOD does

 

[Old School]

Schilling apologized Wednesday

Schilling apologized Wednesday

Francona advises pitcher to curtail comments

By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
May 9, 2007

Curt Schilling apologized Wednesday for criticizing Barry Bonds and was advised by his manager to keep some of his opinions to himself.

The Red Sox pitcher leveled the criticism Tuesday on a radio show then backed off his remarks Wednesday in an entry entitled "Public Apology," on his blog.




"Everyone has days and events in life they'd love to push the rewind button on, yesterday was one of those days," Schilling wrote on the blog, 38pitches.com. "Regardless of my opinions, thoughts and beliefs on anything Barry Bonds it was absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did. I don't think it's within anyone's right to say the things I said yesterday and affect other peoples lives in that way.

"As someone who's made it very clear I have major issues with members of the media that take little or no pride in their work it's the height of hypocrisy for me to say what I did, in any forum."

On Tuesday morning on WEEI radio, Schilling criticized the San Francisco Giants slugger, who is 10 homers short of matching Hank Aaron's home run record of 755.

"I mean, he admitted that he used steroids," Schilling said on the show. "I mean, there's no gray area. He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think. Hank Aaron not being there. The commissioner (Bud Selig) trying to figure out where to be. It's sad.

"And I don't care that he's black, or green, or purple, or yellow, or whatever. It's unfortunate," he said. "There's good people and bad people. It's unfortunate that it's happening the way it's happening,"

Boston manager Terry Francona said before the Red Sox game in Toronto on Wednesday night that he urged Schilling to use more discretion.

"Schill came to me," Francona said. "We talked a little bit and I said, `You probably just need to stay away from some of those things."'

He said he'd let Schilling continue writing his blog.

"I don't care, as long as he stays away from certain things," Francona said. "It doesn't make sense. If you want to run for office some day and solve the world's problems, go ahead. Just not while I'm the manager."

He also said he didn't know what a blog was until Schilling's stirred controversy and doesn't plan to read it.

Schilling said on his blog that his comment about Bonds "was a callous, wreckless and irresponsible thing to say, and for that I apologize to Barry, Barry's family, Barry's friends and the Giants organization, my teammates and the Red Sox organization as well as anyone else that may have been offended by the comments I made."

AP freelance writer Ian Harrison in Toronto contributed to this story.



Updated on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 7:44 pm EDT


So much for the book... :142smilie