Sometimes, media stories can really infuriate me. And this story is no different. Here was once-respected Gary Thorne, a veteran TV broadcaster, who should have known better than to go with a story that had a very dubious and shaky source.Thorne, who broadcasts on the four-letter with baseball games, had inferred that World Series winning pitcher Curt Schilling had committed fraud by doctoring up the sock that he wore during a courageous game. Schilling, who injured his ankle, had emergency surgery and still pitched days later. However, the strain on his ankle began to pull at the stitches making for a really gruesome sight on live TV.
Fast-forward to today, Thorne said almost flippantly that another Red Sox player had confessed that the blood on Schilling's sock was a scam and that they got plenty of publicity.
Well, publicity was certainly the motive for this story, but it wasn't on Schilling. It was an attempt to release a story in the hopes that Thorne would get some "street cred". I hope that this doesn't work for Thorne, that this cheap publicity stunt makes him more of a household name.
