Massachusetts doesn’t owe Curt Schilling a Senate seat
By Alyssa Rosenberg August 17 at 2:00 PM
If you love Boston sports teams and liberal politics, this presidential election season has been a dispiriting confluence of these two very different realms. Not only will Patriots quarterback Tom Brady be suspended for the first four games of the upcoming season, but he’s supporting Donald Trump for president, apparently on the grounds of their personal friendship. Now comes the news that Curt Schilling, the pitcher who helped bring a World Series to Boston after an agonizing drought, is considering subjecting the Bay State to the spectacle of a run against Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D).
My despair in these matters is personal. I’m a Boston Red Sox fan. When my family moved to Massachusetts in the mid-1990s, the team was coming off a stretch of rocky seasons, and tickets weren’t so hard to come by. We arrived in time to witness the rise of sprightly shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, the magnificent heft of Mo Vaughn and the heartbreak of John Valentin’s awful knee injury, and to be fully inculcated into the suffering and near misses that defined Red Sox Nation before 2004, when we huddled together with standing-room-only tickets on a frigid October night to see the team get one game closer to breaking the Curse. But for all the joy and pleasure the Red Sox have given me over the years, there are limits to what a state or region can give back to any one player, or what it ought to give to a team. And running for Senate would be just the latest way that Schilling in particular has tested the limits of what that iconic bloody sock means he can extract from New England.
The most distasteful example of Schilling’s attempts to leverage his role in Red Sox history is the 38 Studios debacle. In 2010, Schilling played the New England states off against each other and won a $75 million loan from Rhode Island to bring his video game company, which bears the name of his playing number, to the state from Massachusetts. And rather than starting with simple games that might have provided some early cash flow, Schilling bet that he could debut the sort of wildly ambitious multiplayer online game that he’d been obsessed with on his first outing as a game developer.
It wasn’t merely that 38 Studios extracted an enormous amount of money from Rhode Island and then lost it all. As Jason Schwartz reported in a devastating, comprehensive 2012 Boston Magazine story on the business, 38 Studios started out with remarkably generous benefits and ended by stiffing ordinary workers and slashing their benefits without warning.
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There is NO WAY that I would vote for Schilling over Warren!
Much as I enjoyed that 2004 American League Championship and World Series, Curt is otherwise an ass. Good athlete in the right place at the right time does NOT equal a good person. My brother was involved in computer gaming business with him...screwed over. As were his investors.
No thanks. I'm not sure many others here in Mass will be fooled either.
Warren has it all over Schilling.
And, I can't stand Tom Brady 
. I'm a Packers fan.
Schilling pitched great that year and the Sox won the World Series after an 86 year drought. 
And if he goes up against Warren, she'll kick his ass so bad he'll have bloody shorts.
