How about a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up?

Curt Schilling needs to learn when to drone on and on about his courageous performances and when to simply keep his mouth shut. An entire Nation of sports fans have given Curt carte blanche to speak his mind, but I think these people forget what a loud mouth arrogant prick this guy is. What generated this early morning attack at Sir Curt (besides lack of coffee)? These asinine comments directed toward Devil Ray manager Lou Piniella, after yet another scrum between Piniella's hapless bunch and Schilling's Sox teammates:

"The problem is when you're playing a team with a manager who somehow forgot how the game is played, there's problems," Schilling said on a Boston radio station Tuesday. "This should have been over a little bit ago. Lou's trying to make his team be a bunch of tough guys, and the telling sign is when the players on that team are saying, 'This is why we lose 100 games a year, because this idiot makes us do stuff like this.' They [Rays players] said that on the field."

Mr. Schilling, Lou Piniella doesn't need me to defend him (mainly because he did a damn good job himself, see below), but I feel compelled to anyway because of your arrogance. Can't you keep your mouth shut? Having him on the DL only makes it worse - perhaps he has some grand plan to fix the country's Social Security problems. Don't worry, if he does, he'll let us know all about it.

Sweet Lou's response to fathead:

"Forget how the game is played? I have forgotten more baseball than this guy knows," Piniella said.
"On the idiot subject, I'm appalled he would actually say something like that. I had a meeting with my team and to a man they denied it. He's questioning my character and integrity and that is wrong. He's never played for me, never really spoken to me, so he really doesn't know what I stand for.
"If I were Curt, I would be really embarrassed at the cheap shot he took and get the story correct. I'll tell you I've always admired his pitching ability and competitiveness, but I can honestly tell you I've lost a lot of respect for him. I'm looking forward to talking to Curt myself and get this matter cleared up," he said.

And Squirrel, before you get on your high horse (ladder-aided of course) to defend your post-season hero...how was Gordon Matthew Sumner last night? Did he open with Fields of Gold?