December 05, 2003

Chat Room vs. Babe Ruth: The Sports Guy discusses how a Red Sox chat room called Sons of Sam Horn influenced Schilling's decision.

I'm betting jerseygirl is a member.

posted by dzot to baseball at 10:10 PM - 10 comments

She is on some waiting list to get an actual membership, but reads it faithfully anyway.

posted by jerseygirl at 10:37 PM on December 05, 2003

SoSh is one of the good ones- I remember reading their early post about the Manny on irrevocable waivers story, which was there before basically anywhere else. Schilling certainly sounds like a complete package- a guy who gives 100% and never does things on or off the field that make you feel like you have to excuse him: "Sure, he's a little wacky, but he hits 40HR" style co-dependency. His Jimmy Fund donation and contact with the fans, as Simmons notes, flies in the face of how we think of athletes these days.

posted by hincandenza at 02:02 AM on December 06, 2003

Huh. Just checked and my account still exists. I signed up probably 5 years ago and couldn't take the legions of retirees and general New England doom sayers who were just there to complain. It's definitely gotten better in the past couple of years, but . . . I dunno. You're not going to get the level of informed discussion you see around here. Well, that's not quite it: it's more of a signal-to-noise ratio issue, kinda like MetaFilter vs. Slashdot.

posted by yerfatma at 12:49 PM on December 06, 2003

Slate also had an article on this the other day.

posted by kirkaracha at 06:12 PM on December 06, 2003

Schilling [...] never does things on or off the field that make you feel like you have to excuse him hulk smash

posted by kjh at 07:48 PM on December 06, 2003

haha. hulk smash. i still love schilling though.

posted by jerseygirl at 12:31 AM on December 07, 2003

I think that Schilling is a real classy awesome guy. It's a shame that I am forced to hate him now. This is a great story. Does anyone else see a small problem with these players (him, ARod, others) who are open to either NY or Boston but then go to one and suddenly declare their interest in the rivalry, and the history, and hate the other team? How can you hate a team that just days ago you were eager to play for? It's all an act. Not that anything they do isn't selfish, but just once, I want to see a player say "no. I only want to be on this side of the rivalry." Hell, I'd be more amused if it was someone saying they hated the Yankees than I would if it was the other way around and we signed him.

posted by Bernreuther at 08:11 AM on December 08, 2003

Does anyone else see a small problem with these players. . . open to either NY or Boston but then go to one and suddenly declare their interest in the rivalry Yes. But I'm willing to look past it if they wind up on our side and not yours.

posted by yerfatma at 10:42 AM on December 08, 2003

ditto.

posted by jerseygirl at 10:51 AM on December 08, 2003

Does anyone else see a small problem with these players. . . open to either NY or Boston but then go to one and suddenly declare their interest in the rivalry Is it any different from a fan moving to one of those cities and then being caught up in that passion?

posted by smithers at 11:08 AM on December 08, 2003

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