what a debacle...

f al leiter, scott proctor and wayne franklin. franklin gets most of my wrath for not being able to throw a strike. at least schilling gagged all over himself and is embroiled in a really lame controversy with an "unnamed teammate". any of you bean eaters know who it is? i'm going to lose my mind this week.



Stung by recent criticism attributed to an anonymous teammate, Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has responded with disappointment and disgust, saying the harsh remarks came from "somebody who's not wired right."

Schilling didn't offer a suggestion as to which of his teammates was responsible for the quote. But he expressed disappointment that words like those would come out of the Red Sox clubhouse just months after the team and Boston celebrated the end to decades of frustration with a World Series championship.

''Somebody on this team wants me to get booed to make them feel better, and that really bothers me a lot," Schilling said in Tuesday's editions of the Boston Globe. ''Those are the kinds of things that really make me look at this game and understand that when I'm done in the game, I'll be done with the game."

In an article that appeared last week in the Boston Herald, an anonymous Red Sox player was critical of the "free pass" Schilling has received from fans despite his disappointing performance on the mound this season.

''When he comes into the game," the player said, "people cheer him like he's the Pope? You think they'd let Pedro (Martinez) get away with this? Why does he get a free pass?"

Schilling didn't offer a suggestion as to which of his teammates was responsible for the quote. But he expressed disappointment that words like those would come out of the Red Sox clubhouse just months after the team and Boston celebrated the end to decades of frustration with a World Series championship.

''As much time as we spend together, you think you know someone," Schilling said. ''But more times than not you find you really don't."