I’m sure that wish could come true, just post your pic on here! LOL – Have a great day!

I would have no problem with him running a blog and just putting up pictures of turds on it everyday. But that would be bad quality and in bad tastes. For that same reason, he should consider changing the manner in which he manages this blog, not because I said so, but just because it is done poorly. My argument is not “I am so-and-so and he should listen to me.” My argument is “It is not very good and in the interests of doing his best he should improve it.”

Let me include a few fairly obvious observations that most of you Curt idolizers may have overlooked:

- He claims he doesn’t care what people say/think, but goes to painstaking lengths to prove them wrong, and is admittedly frustrated by things that are said.

- It is sports writers and the media itself that paved the way for this blog. Without the media, none of us would have ever heard a single word Schilling has ever said.

- Lastly, he’s a pitcher. His technical knowledge of the game is great. His opinions aren’t. Regardless, he has chosen to write them in a public area. He can choose to write poorly, and that’s fine; he has that right. But why do something incorrectly when he could invest a little time and improve himself, and in that way make his opinions more credible?

I don’t like the practice of taking a set of sentences from a work and criticizing them individually. Many times removing them from context also removes their meaning. But since I am also not a fan of people with good ideas but below average writing skills having blogs (editors or no editors), I will make an exception this time. Plus, this method is actually effective in certain instances, and this is one of them.

other than a mastery of the English language their skill sets are non-existent

- In fact, I would argue that having a mastery of the English language is about as valuable a skill as one could have. In baseball terms, that would be like saying “Other than his right arm, Beckett’s skill sets are non-existent.”

It was blood. You can choose to believe whatever you need to, but facts are facts. The 25 guys that were in that locker room, the coaches, they all know it. In the end nothing else really matters. The people that need to believe otherwise are people with their own insecurities and issues

- Two things strike me about that paragraph. First, if there is actually no need for anybody other than the 25 world champions to know the truth, there is no need for it to be the subject of a blog. Second, there does not appear to be a connection between someone with low self-esteem (insecurities) and someone who “needs” to believe that it wasn’t blood.

blood was fake. Which even when he’s called out he can’t admit he lied. Doug never

- That middle part is not a sentence. It could be a typo, but I just wanted to point out that it was not correct. What is probably more significance is that even if it were to be turned into a sentence, it wouldn’t fit the flow of the paragraph. I added the two words before and after it in a humble attempt at providing context.

The other great part of this is knowing that anyone that wrote anything about a ‘conspiracy’ or a ‘plot’ is someone that is so far removed from understanding how physically and mentally challenging it is to play this game at this level you can almost laugh off their stupidity. Not to mention they obviously have shortcomings, bitterness and jealousy in their own lives that should probably get taken care of

- This one is my personal favorite. Again, faulty reasoning can be seen. The amount of physical and mental ability required to play baseball is not related to somebody thinking that the Red Sox built up this incident for publicity. Let’s imagine a great hitter: a hall of fame caliber player, with many batting titles and a few World Championships. The skills he possesses include, but are not limited to, good reaction times, good coordination, persistence, endurance, and a few others. What he does not possess is the ability to assess whether or not the sort of injury you suffered would have caused bleeding. An example of what would convert that paragraph into “good writing” would be to say why somebody who thinks that way does not know what it takes to play the game. Also, you did not explain why someone who thinks that has many shortcomings. To be honest, this looks like a reach and a cheap shot.

Personally, I think you are a Hall of Fame pitcher. I didn’t think so a few years ago, but I think the fact that we’re still discussing you as one of the best in the game in 2007 makes you hall-worthy. You have opinions on issues most athletes don’t even consider. But it seems like that fact allows you to write those opinions without backing them up. One of your blogs one day claimed Kieth Foulke was the MVP of the 2004 World Series team. I don’t care if he was or not. What bothers me is that when you tried to explain why, all you did was restate that he was the MVP in more definitive language. The best advice I can give you is to close the gap between your reasoning and your conclusions. Let us see why you believe the things you say. People should listen to you because what you have to say is true, not because of who you are. And it is that reasoning that makes me believe you should take this letter into consideration.

Sincerely,

Anthony Vega

P.S. I stand by opinions in this letter, so feel free to write me back.