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I wil be really happy when this election is over. Here in the Boston area, both candidates are awshucksing or smarmy smearing on an every-other-TV-commecial basis. Enough already !

We haven't escaped it here in Brooklyn either. Despite two phone number changes since we lived in Boston, we are still on lists that must show us as eligible to vote in MA. So, the phone rings multiple times a day asking us to go out and vote for one candidate or the other.

Schilling is really a piece of work. Let's review:

1. He demanded a trade from the Phillies, whose front office he often criticized.

2. After the 2001 season, there was talk of a major re-alignment, which would have included shifting the D'backs to the AL. Schilling stated that he would retire before pitching in the AL because of his dislike for the DH.

3. When it became apparent that the D'backs would not be able to retain both him and Johnson, Schilling stated that he would only accept a trade to the Phillies (the team from which he had previously demanded a trade) or the Yankees (who, unless I'm mistaken, play in the AL, with the DH).

3. He later accepted a trade to the Red Sox -- another team in the AL -- and promptly announced that he guessed he now "hated" the Yankees. The same Yankees that were one of only two teams to which he previously said he would accept a trade.

This short list doesn't even go delve into the details of his conflicts with various players (teammates and opponents alike), Phillies management, Red Sox management, MLB management over the balls-and-strikes machine he smashed, and countless members of the media (the same media that gives him the megaphone he so desperately craves).

So now I am supposed to believe that he's offended that he's been called a Yankees fan? I see. Call me cynical, but I think if he had been traded to the Yankees instead of the Red Sox, he would have said that he guessed he now hated the Red Sox. The man is a consummate phony, who really loves to hear the sound of his own voice. He was a fine pitcher, I freely admit that, but like Gary Sheffield, I wish he'd just shut up and go away.

Well said Greg. For me the worst part of Schilling will always be the steroid hearings. He had blustered before them about all he had to say and then clammed up when given the opportunity to talk.