Curt Schilling is done. Schill has announced on his blog that he will undergo shoulder surgery and at 41 there's no way he's going to pop any 95 mph high and tight fastballs anymore.
I always respected Schill because no matter what people said about him (he's a blow hart, fat, classless piece of shit, etc), he never backed down from his comments. That's a lot more than you can say about the typical Derek Jeter "We played hard as a team and lost a tough one" bullshit rhetoric. He said what he meant and he meant what he said. And he backed up all that talk on the mound, finishing his career with a 216-146 record, 3,116 strikeouts and three World Series rings. His performance for the Phillies in the 1993 postseason is legendary.
Curt's last start of his career was in Game 2 of the 2007 World Series. He gutted out 5 1/3 innings despite injury, yielding just 1 run and registering 4 K's in a 2-1 win for the BoSox. It was par for the course, as Schilling boasts an 11-2 record and 2.23 ERA during the postseason. Not a bad way to end a career. Too bad it wasn't with the Phillies.
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