Yesterday’s Boston Globe reported that Curt Schilling, retired Red Sox ace, admired 2004 World Series Champ and outspoken Independent thinker with Republican leaning political views, is ruminating a run for the Massachusetts Senate post recently vacated by the late Edward M. Kennedy.
The venerated Seat, a bastion of the late Senator’s Democratic values and liberal leaning ideology for nearly 50 years, will be filled in January 2010.
Schilling is savvy enough to understand that a political run of this magnitude will be far more turbulent than any MLB Wild Card Race or any hotly contested World Series Game. Like a rookie pitcher, he’d be entering a new Major League field, better yet, quagmire fraught with innuendo, veiled accusations and outright lies, not even closely resembling the diamond shaped field where he excelled for so long.
On the other hand, Schilling just might possess the passion, poise, patience, and plethora of political pitches to punctuate his foray onto the Senate scene. Perhaps we’ll see Curt emerge as a World Series Champ in politics, too.
OK, sports fans, Time for you to VOTE on my first poll.
Should #38 stay in the “dugout” of his cushy suburban life in New England he’s created for himself? Or, should Curt espouse the Obama campaign line that “Change is Needed” in Massachusetts and dive headfirst into a ceratin to be spirited Senate run?
Straight talk. No static.
This is MIKE – thee American made voice on sports!
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