Curt Schilling News

Contact us for advertising info. SHIRTS! Thursday, November 26, 2009 A Halladay Feast? Six years ago today, Theo Epstein and Larry Lucchino took a road trip out west that helped change the fate of the Boston Red Sox.

Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, had a nice line about "Mystique" and "Aura" being "dancers in a nightclub" rather than concepts that could influence a sporting encounter.

Back in 2003, Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, along with then-Assistant GM Jed Hoyer, traveled to Arizona to have Thanksgiving dinner with Curt Schilling and his wife in order to convince Schilling to come to Boston.

The possibilities seem endless this time of year. If you are a Red Sox fan, you have spent countless discussions conjuring up trade possibilities and evaluating free agent possibilities for the 2010 season.

No. 38 has reduced the price of his 26-acre Medfield estate to $4.5 million, the same price the former Red Sox [ team stats ] pitcher and his wife Shonda paid Drew Bledsoe for the 20-room Colonial in 2004.

The boss phoned the other day with a weekend assignment. My sports editor - not George Steinbrenner, The Boss - wanted dueling columnists gazing into the Phillies' future with Mike Sielski providing a glass-half full approach and me offering an glass-half empty glimpse.

"Knight and Day" star Tom Cruise , along with wife Katie Holmes and 3-year old daughter Suri , attracting a crowd of spectators while they waited to check out the cannolis at Modern Pastry on Hanover Street .

Forgive me, but I'm going to spend a few minutes crying about how unfair the game can be.

The day after the New York Yankees won their 27th championship -- with the icing being that Pedro Martinez was the losing pitcher -- you had to figure Curt Schilling would have an opinion on the matter.

24, 2008, file photo, then-Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schiling poses for a photo in Fort Meyers, Fla.

Pedro Martinez returns to the scene of the crime. October 13, 2004, a day that will live in infamy in the history of the storied Red Sox Yankee rivalry.

Baseball's postseason history is chock-full of legendary performances, mysterious happenings, amazing plays and epic failures.

Curt Schilling's bloody sock, Johnny Damon's grand slam, David Ortiz's walk-offs, Keith Foulke's final flip to Doug Mientkiewicz.

It was Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling who once famously scoffed at the Yankees' mystique and aura, likening the two terms to exotic dancers at a night club.

The fundamental things apply as time goes by. Herman Hupfeld penned the song "As Time Goes By" for the 1931 Broadway musical, Everybody's Welcome.

"Balloon boy" isn't the first hoax to float past the public before getting deflated.

It's Jack Daniel's time in the Bronx again. The pregame round of shots - well, it was one small Gatorade cup everyone shared from - that worked wonders for the 2004 gang-of-idiots Red Sox [ team stats ] in their do-or-die ALCS Game 6 against the Yankees certainly could not hurt the Angels' cause this time around.

Thursday, the Yankees were one victory away from a triumphant return to the World Series .

The Yankees have an "Ace," and the Angels don't. Really, that's been the difference in this ALCS so far.

Every so often, Doug Mientkiewicz slips on his bulky, diamond-studded championship ring that commemorates the Red Sox' 2004 World Series championship, a memento of a glorious October gone by and everything it entailed.