These were the words that Curt Schilling posted on his blog today :
"Turn out the lights the party’s over…"
"After being blessed to experience 23 years of playing professional baseball in front of the world’s best fans in so many different places, it is with zero regrets that I am making my retirement official."
Schilling was attempting to come back from a complex shoulder surgery that included a labral tear debridement and repair, Biceps tenodesis, and rotator cuff debridement. Given the extent and scope of his surgery, it was going to be somewhat of a long shot for him to return to the mound, but he gave it a shot nonetheless. Schilling has decided to leave the game he loves and focus on his family. He ends his career having accumulated a ton of tremendous accolades, including:
World Series Champion: 2001 (Arizona), 2004 and 2007 (Boston); Career postseason record of 11-2; 6-time All-Star; Led AL in Wins (2004); Led NL in Wins (2001); Led NL in Strikeouts in 1997 and 1998); 3,116 career Strikeouts, 3.46 ERA, and 216-146 record.
He also had some of the most unprecedented, pinpoint control - a career mark of 0.09 BB per K (wow).
He will forever be known in Boston for helping to win a championship in 2004 while playing with an acutely injured ankle, in what is now called the "bloody sock" game. He had what is now called the "Schilling Tendon Procedure", performed by Dr. William Morgan. This basically is a procedure that sutures the skin to the underlying connective tissue of the ankle, and prevents the tendon behind the lateral ankle bone (peroneus brevis) from displacing and rubbing over the bone.
As a Red Sox fan, I would personally like to say ‘Thank You’ for your determination and courage, and for helping to restore a winning tradition in Boston.
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