Retired Baseball Player Turns Out Not to Have Been Retired, Retires

Although Curt Schilling was technically a member of the Boston Red Sox last season, considering that he did not appear in a single game, I had assumed that his contract was more or less an eight-million-dollar "thanks for your participation in the 2004 World Series victory" going-away present.

But Curt Schilling ain't going out like that!

Instead, he opted to go out like this, on his blog.

Awkward.

Still, though--I, like all Red Sox fans, will always very much appreciate that business in 2004. (The other stuff, like the loving George W. Bush and the never shutting up? Not so much.)

Curt Schilling's Career Maybe Over...or at Least Career with Red Sox, Probably...or Maybe Neither...or Probably Both...

Curt Schilling revealed Friday morning in a radio interview kindly described by the Boston Globe as "lengthy" that he will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery on Monday that could turn out to be career-ending surgery, or at least Red Sox-career-ending surgery.

But something is definitely happening with Curt Schilling...and until it is determined exactly what that something is, he will likely not stop talking about it. And then, afterwards, he will more than likely continue to talk about it. Perhaps forever.