Curt Schilling Talks About His Foray Into The Blogosphere

Curt Schilling loves being on his computer; this we should all know by now. He spoke with Alex Belth of Bronx Banter fame for Sports Illustrated about his new blog, 38 pitches.

SI.com: That seems to follow in the mold that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has established with his blog, bypassing the media and delivering his words directly to the reader.

Schilling: Right. So here's what I was getting at: There is the potential to change the way people get their news. Fast-forward this to Opening Day. It's a 2 p.m. game, hopefully I'll pitch great and we'll win. Sometime around 7 or 8 o'clock that night I'll sit down -- I'm on the road, I'm by myself -- I'll blog out the game, pitch-by-pitch in some instances, inning-by-inning, I'll go into minutia ... By 9 o'clock that night I'll have a post up. I'll give you numbers. In the seven days my blog's been up, I've had 398,156 viewers. Those people will know about things they could never read about [in the newspapers], 12 hours before the newspapers ever come out.

I highly recommend you read this interview in its entirety. Say what you want about Schilling's outspokenness, but he makes a ton of excellent points about the current state of sports journalism and where it's headed. And, as the above blockquote illustrates, he's embarking on somewhat new territory here; territory his fan base and baseball fans are craving.

He even gets a dig in at Murray Chass (third question) for his VORP comments, which is always fun.

(Via Baseball Musings)

Previously at FanHouse:
Curt Schilling Has A Blog Now
Murray Chass Has No Use For Your Newfangled Statistics