It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out at once, "Who the f*** cares!".
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That 'he' was meant for Steinbrenner, too. It took Colangelo two years to pay back Steinbrenner with interest, but Schilling represented the perfect vehicle of retribution. The right-hander wasn't just the man who helped topple Steinbrenner's dynasty, and wasn't just the man who could make the Red Sox the actual favorites in the American League East.
Schilling was also the man who said this of Yankee lore: "When you use the words 'mystique' and 'aura,' those are dancers in a nightclub." (hahahaa...)
Schilling delivered this priceless (if scripted) quote before Arizona made a little magic of its own. And now?
"He'll be a king and a hero if they can win a World Series in Boston," Colangelo said of Schilling.
Yes, Martinez to Schilling to Lowe could be Boston's answer to Tinker to Evers to Chance, a relay that will connect the last Red Sox championship in 1918 to the next one in 2004.
The Sox didn't lose out on Schilling like they lost out on everyone from Jose Contreras to Bernie Williams to Babe Ruth. Colangelo hand-delivered them a slam-dunk trade, gave them 72 hours of quality time with Schilling, and would've granted a half dozen deadline extensions to Larry Lucchino, an executive Steinbrenner loathed long before he called the Yankees the "evil empire."
"I guess I hate the Yankees now," Schilling said at his Friday night news conference.
The owner who traded him? The evidence suggests Jerry Colangelo doesn't hate the Yankees, just the man who owns them.
LOL!