Retired Boston Red Sox baseball legend Rico Petrocelli helps out a local politician he’s supporting, Retired Army General Don Bolduc, who’s running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in New Hampshire. Aside from giving the crowd a testimonial speech on why he’s supporting Bolduc for the U.S. Senate, Petrocelli was also gracious enough to pose for Selfies with anyone who wanted this for a souvenir or whatever. Here we’ve got the retired Red Sox great posing with Yours Truly at a Bolduc campaign rally in Hudson NH VFW facility.
Since the 1967 Boston Red Sox were often referred to as, ‘The Impossible Dream’ team, or some variation thereof, am I like the ONLY one who associates this team with the main theme song from the Broadway play, ‘Man of La Mancha’? Call me a nerd, but whenever I hear the song, ‘The Impossible Dream’, on the radio or whatever, I can’t help but think back to players like: Rico Petrocelli, Jim Lonborg, George Scott, Yaz, etc., and all the others associated with this great ’67 Red Sox squad.
So former major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling — arguably one of the greatest clutch athletes of all time — is being denied induction into the professional baseball Hall of Fame because…he was supportive of Donald Trump for President???!!!
Dude…seriously??
What Schilling did for the Boston Red Sox to help them win the ’04 World Series was absolutely amazing. Down 3-0 to the arch rival New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series, the Red Sox came back to win that round to go onto play and sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
Schilling, however, started and won the deciding game against the Yankees with a severed achilles tendon. Known as, “the Bloody Sock game”, Schilling managed to suck in the pain to help win that game for the Sox. It should be noted too that prior to the ’04 season, the Red Sox went about 83 years without a World Series title — they were known as a “cursed team” at the time.
Prior to that season, Schilling helped both the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks to World Series championships. Although he was blessed to happen to play with some excellent teammates, when it came to having a clutch performer pitching on the mound for a big game, none was better than Curt Schilling.
And now the baseball writers don’t want to vote for Schilling into the Baseball Hall of Fame because he happened to be supportive of Donald Trump??!!
Apparently, they’re basing it on an extremely vague and ambiguous rule called, the Character Clause. How does that justify some of the players who were already inducted into the Hall of Fame who happened to be: Wife beaters, or Alcoholics, or how about womanizers?
Another thing that really sucks about Schilling being denied Induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame — he was ALSO denied alongside Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two guys who obviously juiced up their bodies on “Steroids”. How the heck can you put someone who supported Trump as President alongside with players who blatantly “Cheated” the system by injecting themselves with Performance Enhancing Drugs??? It’s like a Night and Day comparison.
When Trump first ran for President in 2016, I guess he gave Tom Brady one of his MAGA hats, which a Reporter once saw it in Brady’s locker & made a big deal about. In future Super Bowls, some Media members said an excellent reason to root against Brady is because he’s a Trump supporter — un-BLEEPIN-believable!
Secondly, when the Patriots went to the White House after one of their Super Bowl wins, Trump thanked Bill Belichick for sending him an encouraging letter during his campaign. With that all said, can you imagine if the Pro Football Hall of Fame DENIED EITHER BRADY OR BELICHICK INDUCTION INTO THEIR FACILITY??? Because both those guys once SUPPORTED DONALD TRUMP!!! Double Murderer O.J. Simpson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame — as a Football player, Simpson DESERVES to be in the Hall of Fame but his “character” just plain sucked.
For Curt Schilling to be passed over on making the Hall of Fame this year just plain sucks. Maybe they ought to rename that facility in Cooperstown, N.Y., to something like, the Hall of Mediocrity because that’s about all it amounts to. Just sayin
Disgraced former Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who might be banned from Major League Baseball for Life due to alleged cheating in both the 2017 World Series (while he was a bench coach with the Houston Astros), and the 2018 World Series when Cora was managing the Red Sox.
Funny thing, after winning the 2018 baseball championship, Cora refused to join the rest of the Red Sox team to make the traditional White House visit because he said that President Donald Trump was too much of a Liar and a Cheater.
FILE UNDER: Look who’s calling the Kettle black? Adios, Jerk-off, have yourself a nice rest of your life!
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