MLB to Schilling: Shut up, You're Ruining My Summah!!!!

May 09, 2007
Schilling apologizes
By David Lefort, Boston.com Staff
A contrite Curt Schilling today issued a public apology for his scathing comments on Giants slugger Barry Bonds, writing on his blog that it was “absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did.”
In response to a question about Bonds’s pursuit of Hank Aaron’s home run record during a radio interview on WEEI yesterday, Schilling said Bonds admitted to “cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes, and cheating on the game,” and added, “I don’t care that he’s black, or green, or purple, or yellow, or whatever. It’s unfortunate… there’s good people and bad people. It’s unfortunate that it’s happening the way it’s happening.”
The harsh criticism got national attention, and even Terry Francona today said he thought Schilling should “zip it a little bit.” This afternoon, Schilling did that and more, apologizing to “Barry, Barry’s family, Barry’s friends and the Giants organization as well as anyone else that may have been offended.”
“Everyone has days and events in life they’d love to push the rewind button on, yesterday was one of those days,” Schilling’s blog entry began. “Regardless of my opinions, thoughts and beliefs on anything Barry Bonds it was absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did. I don’t think it’s within anyone’s right to say the things I said yesterday and affect other peoples lives in that way.”