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Related: About this forumESPN edits out Curt Schilling from 2004 Red Sox ALCS video
urt Schilling was recently fired by ESPN in large part because of his frequent social-media activity, specifically controversial memes and comments shared by the former pitcher. So when reports circulated online that ESPN had cut Schillings memorable bloody sock performance in the 2004 ALCS from its Sunday airing of a 30 for 30? documentary about that Red Sox-Yankees showdown, it was no surprise to see him weigh in quickly, and strongly.
Apparently Schilling also thinks that ESPN counts among the reasons Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had his four-game suspension reinstated by a federal court. But what set him off Sunday was hearing that the evenings telecast of Four Days in October, ESPNs 2010 documentary about Bostons stunning comeback from a 3-0 deficit against New York to reach, and eventually win, the World Series, was missing his crucial Game 6 performance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/05/01/curt-schilling-not-happy-bloody-sock-game-cut-from-red-sox-yankees-30-for-30/
Part of me thinks this is funny, part of me thinks this is petty by ESPN...either way, both are classless.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)That's when I was in Boston and witnessed the postponed game. Then Boone had the walk-off in game 7.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)That might still bother me...although seeing it in person might have been even worse.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I flew back to Denver in absolute disgust. I so wanted to see the Cubs and Red Sox in a World Series.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Game 7 was October 11...close
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)But the game I was at was on the 14th where the Yanks won. I drove to Manchester, NH afterwards, got drunk and watched the Bartman Abomination on TV.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I swore it said October 11
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Hmmmm
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I don't know what they called Bill Buckner.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)No Payless. No Tebow. No Steve Largent. No Jim Bunning. No Ernie Banks, for crying out loud.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)Schilling went out of his way to be an officious, know-it-all, undereducated, jerk.
Besides, the others you mentioned didn't get better and stronger after they were 30. I wonder how that happened in Schilling's case. Hmmmmm?!?!?
Iggo
(47,603 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)When a live event runs long, its standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows. In this case, we needed to edit out one of the films four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game.
SNIP
So a non-issue became a big issue to a lot of people, somehow. But heres a better question: Why was anyone watching a six-year-old documentary at that hour anyway? Here are a few of the live sports airing at that hour (5:30 p.m. Eastern) yesterday:
Trail Blazers-Warriors NBA playoff basketball
Blues-Stars NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey
Ten MLB games
PGA Tour golf
Timbers-Toronto FC soccer
Northwestern-Indiana college baseball
LPGA Tour golf
Campeonato Paulista soccer
Guadalajara vs Dorados Liga MX soccer
... and the finish of the NASCAR race, which ran long due to lots of wrecks
Clearly were dealing with some level-headed people here.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)performance kind of like editing out the Gibson home run in the 1988 world series? It is sort of the "signature event" of the series.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)I know it's a movie, but I just watched Fever Pitch once again
The Bloody Sock is just a slight mention. It's just a blip on the screen. Ortiz's home runs are what made that series. Not Shilling's fake bloody sock!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)people are going to have different games, series, or years in mind. If I don't say "Ortiz" people will even have different teams in mind. When I say "bloody sock" people know which team and which year. I'm not saying it was more important, but more uniquely identifiable with THAT series. Was the extra minute or two of Lenny Clark or Bill Simmons yapping really so important that you needed to keep that in? IMHO, it was just another poor decision made by some petty people over at ESPN.
The movie barely mentions the actual series at all since they had to rewrite and reshoot the ending completely after the Sox won. In the original plot, the Sox lost the series.
madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)Yavin4
(35,455 posts)A perfect pair if you ask me.