ESPN edits out Curt Schilling from 2004 Red Sox ALCS video

[joeybee12]

urt Schilling was recently fired by ESPN in large part because of his frequent social-media activity, specifically controversial memes and comments shared by the former pitcher. So when reports circulated online that ESPN had cut Schilling’s memorable “bloody sock” performance in the 2004 ALCS from its Sunday airing of a “30 for 30? documentary about that Red Sox-Yankees showdown, it was no surprise to see him weigh in quickly, and strongly.

Apparently Schilling also thinks that ESPN counts among the reasons Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had his four-game suspension reinstated by a federal court. But what set him off Sunday was hearing that the evening’s telecast of “Four Days in October,” ESPN’s 2010 documentary about Boston’s stunning comeback from a 3-0 deficit against New York to reach, and eventually win, the World Series, was missing his crucial Game 6 performance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/05/01/curt-schilling-not-happy-bloody-sock-game-cut-from-red-sox-yankees-30-for-30/

Part of me thinks this is funny, part of me thinks this is petty by ESPN...either way, both are classless.

[El Supremo]

1. I'd rather they edit out Aaron Boone from the 2003 ALCS.

That's when I was in Boston and witnessed the postponed game. Then Boone had the walk-off in game 7.

[joeybee12]

2. Had they not won it all the next year...

That might still bother me...although seeing it in person might have been even worse.

[El Supremo]

3. I think that was the same night as the Bartman Fiasco.

I flew back to Denver in absolute disgust. I so wanted to see the Cubs and Red Sox in a World Series.

[joeybee12]

4. I had to check...Bartman was October 14th

Game 7 was October 11...close

[El Supremo]

5. No game 7 of the ALCS was the 16th.

But the game I was at was on the 14th where the Yanks won. I drove to Manchester, NH afterwards, got drunk and watched the Bartman Abomination on TV.

[joeybee12]

6. Did Google LIE????

I swore it said October 11

[El Supremo]

7. Here:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2003_ALCS.shtml

[joeybee12]

8. Maybe I googled 2004

Hmmmm

[El Supremo]

9. Bucky "Fucking" Dent and Aaron "Fucking" Boone.

I don't know what they called Bill Buckner.

[KamaAina]

10. Bowdlerized sports videos would be quite boring.

No Payless. No Tebow. No Steve Largent. No Jim Bunning. No Ernie Banks, for crying out loud.

[El Supremo]

11. You said it!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Seems A Little Different

Schilling went out of his way to be an officious, know-it-all, undereducated, jerk.

Besides, the others you mentioned didn't get better and stronger after they were 30. I wonder how that happened in Schilling's case. Hmmmmm?!?!?

[Iggo]

12. LOL...burn.

[RockaFowler]

14. Deadspin's Take on this is funny

http://deadspin.com/espn-edited-curt-schilling-out-of-an-airing-of-the-04-r-1774182226

This is especially rich, because Schilling—as a former ESPN employee—should know full well that programming is regularly edited for time constraints. But further proving that he’ll share any misinformation that aligns with his beliefs, Schilling disingenuously raised a stink about it anyway—to the degree that ESPN had to release a statement to explain what was obvious to anyone with a functioning brain:

When a live event runs long, it’s standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows. In this case, we needed to edit out one of the film’s four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game.

SNIP

So a non-issue became a big issue to a lot of people, somehow. But here’s a better question: Why was anyone watching a six-year-old documentary at that hour anyway? Here are a few of the live sports airing at that hour (5:30 p.m. Eastern) yesterday:

Trail Blazers-Warriors NBA playoff basketball
Blues-Stars NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey
Ten MLB games
PGA Tour golf
Timbers-Toronto FC soccer
Northwestern-Indiana college baseball
LPGA Tour golf
Campeonato Paulista soccer
Guadalajara vs Dorados Liga MX soccer
... and the finish of the NASCAR race, which ran long due to lots of wrecks


Clearly we’re dealing with some level-headed people here.

[hughee99]

15. No love for Schilling here, but isn't editing out a mention of Schilling's game 6 "bloody sock"

performance kind of like editing out the Gibson home run in the 1988 world series? It is sort of the "signature event" of the series.

[RockaFowler]

16. Here's the thing

I know it's a movie, but I just watched Fever Pitch once again

The Bloody Sock is just a slight mention. It's just a blip on the screen. Ortiz's home runs are what made that series. Not Shilling's fake bloody sock!

[hughee99]

17. Think of it this way... If I say "Ortiz Walkoff homerun",

people are going to have different games, series, or years in mind. If I don't say "Ortiz" people will even have different teams in mind. When I say "bloody sock" people know which team and which year. I'm not saying it was more important, but more uniquely identifiable with THAT series. Was the extra minute or two of Lenny Clark or Bill Simmons yapping really so important that you needed to keep that in? IMHO, it was just another poor decision made by some petty people over at ESPN.

The movie barely mentions the actual series at all since they had to rewrite and reshoot the ending completely after the Sox won. In the original plot, the Sox lost the series.

[madinmaryland]

18. The only one classless is Schilling.

[Yavin4]

19. I think that Trump has found his VP

A perfect pair if you ask me.