Curt reponds to "Sock-Gate" in a way only he can

"You see, Terry, here's what happened. I was eavesdropping on a conversation in the clubhouse that night..."

In a scathing assault on both Gary Thorne and the media in general (of which he himself is now a part of), Curt Schilling ripped into the faulty Orioles play-by-play man for being a liar who "misreported what he overheard...then misinterpreted what he misreported", and vilified the rest of the press for running wild with the story.

On his blog 38Pitches.com today, the media-hog (something Curt will readily admit to) righthander ripped Thorne a new one; his post regarding the issue is rather lengthy, so here are a few of the best verbal beatdowns Curt laid on the bespectacled broadcaster:

• "So Gary Thorne says that Doug (Mirabelli) told him the blood was fake. Which even when he’s called out he can’t admit he lied. Doug never told Gary Thorne anything. Gary Thorne overheard something and then misreported what he overheard. Not only did he misreport it, he misinterpreted what he misreported."


• "...even after they spoke Gary Thorne still covered his ass by lying about the conversation and twisting it in a way that absolved him from blame."

But Curt, who is obviously both incensed and amazed that this 2-year-old story is still garnering attention, was just as straightforward when detailing his feelings about the media's involvement in the escalation of this incident (notice how he still manages to skewer Thorne also):

• "Watching Woody Paige or the plastered made up face of Jay Marriotti spew absolutely nothing of merit on sports, day after day, makes it easy to understand how Gary Thorne could say something as stupid, ignorant, and uninformed as he did the other night."


• "My only real problem is not that Gary Thorne said something stupid and ignorant, which he did, but that without a word being uttered by anyone in our clubhouse this somehow became a major news story."


• "The media hacked and spewed their way to a day or two of stories that had zero basis in truth. A story fabricated by the media, for the media."

Great rips on "Woodrow" Paige and Mariotti! Look, it's time to put this thing to rest. Curt states that his blog finally "serves one of the purposes I’d hoped it would if the need arose", which was to be able to fight back against his detractors or anyone he sees as challenging the facts of any story.

Mission accomplished.

Sure Curt proceeded to jump on his moral high horse, claiming the media should have been focusing on the double-amputee Iraq war vet who threw out the first pitch Wednesday night before his start, and that many writers still hold a grudge for him crediting his faith with as the reason he was able to do what he did that memorable October, but that's neither here nor there.

The the fact of the matter is that anyone with a sane mind knows that the sock is as real as Schill' s pain, passion and perseverance was in delivering the title to Boston after 86 years of frustration, heartache and misery.

Which would exclude Stankee fans.

Let's play some friggin' ball already!