Gary Thorne: It was paint on Schilling's sock in Game 6 of the LCS, not blood

not according to this page on the hall's web site:
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/teams/AL/redsox.htm

from the hall:

thorne can answer again today when he chats at noon ET today:
http://transcripts.usatoday.com/Chats/transcript.aspx?c=1232

 

A spokesman from the Hall of Fame was on Cold Pizza and said that the sock was from Game 2 of the World Series. Either he's wrong or the Web site is wrong.

 

Re: Gary Thorne: It was paint on Schilling's sock in Game 6 of the LCS, not bloo

Can anyone recall ... was there not a bandage that should have kept blood from staining a sock?

 

The Hall of Fame wanted the "bloody sock" from Game 6 of the ALCS, too, but it was nowhere to be found. Circular file, presumably, where a lot of Schilling's rubbish belongs.

 

Re: Gary Thorne: It was paint on Schilling's sock in Game 6 of the LCS, not bloo

I could see this

 

And you've never been a fan of conspiracy theories before....

 

LJB visits Schilling home, brings friends along.

 

Ha, Fenian!

outofplace, everything this guy does is to elicit a prescribed response, from thumbing through military magazines in the clubhouse before the game (while reporters are around) to the letter he penned to console baseball fans after Sept. 11. Like you needed Father Curt Schilling to crystallize the whole thing for you.

 

When do the SoSH log in to start crying?

 

Not defending Schilling. He's a pain in the ass who pays way too much attention to his own image. Not to mention showing up fat for spring training and trying to excuse it by saying he was busy.

But to go on the air and state that it was paint as fact with only Mirabelli's word? That's pretty sloppy and Thorne is too good and too smart not to know it. He just didn't want to give anybody an opportunity to refute the story before he could toss it out there on the air.

 

Seems odd that Thorne would be so matter of fact about this. Surely he knew the shitstorm it would create.

And I wonder when Mirabelli supposedly told him? Right before last night's game? Why mention it Wednesday night, in other words?

 

Bandage? Anyone?