The outspoken former Major League Baseball star and ESPN employee Curt Schilling has his eyes on running for political office in the near future.
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As a star pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Boston Red Sox, Curt Schilling won over 200 games in 20 seasons, capturing three World Series titles for good measure (with the D-Backs in 2001 and the Sox in ’04 and ’07). In fact, one could easily argue that Schilling is among the greatest pitchers to have never won a Cy Young Award.
Unfortunately, Schilling has garnered more notoriety lately for saying unsettling (and often downright alarming) things through social media.
Now, the man of 10,000 useless quotes — many of them overtly political in nature, to the point of ultimately costing Schilling his ESPN baseball gig — has now decided to trade twitter trolling for the more civilized thrills (not really) of running for political office.
Shortly after retiring from the big leagues in 2007, Schilling half-joked he would run for the late Massachusetts Senior Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat back in 2009, a threat form which the firebrand former pitcher ultimately backed off. Now, Schilling appears to have his eyes set squarely on the White House, becoming roughly the 19,038,756th person in history to declare his candidacy for our land’s highest office in a string of Facebook comments.
Not a Facebook post, mind you. Comments.
Schilling’s initial plan, per his mini rant, is to come up through the state house. He did grow up in Alaska, which, as Sarah Palin continues to prove, would be a relatively easy political entry point.
According to this timeline, Schilling’s plan is to run for President of the United States in eight years (2024), should Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump win the 2016 Election. If Hillary Clinton wins, on the other hand, Schilling would be prepared to run as early as 2020.
With the Clinton-Trump debates poised to offer some of the most absurd political theater in history, is it really surprising that a cut-rate carnival barker like Schilling might envision a platform for his brand of right-win commentary?
Let’s worry about lobbying for a Cooperstown enshrinement first, Curt. Baby steps, you know?