Athletes these days are usually rather bland in interviews. One cannot blame them; a semi-controversial comment usually gets blown out of proportion or heavily scrutinized. Better to keep it even steven and draw less attention to yourself.But not if you blog, man. It's the Wild Wild West out here, anything goes! Just ask Curt Schilling. Or maybe ask C.J. Wilson of the Texas Rangers. You see, according to the Dallas Morning News, in a recent ESPN.com article Wilson made some remarks about other ballplayers apparent political apathy as well as penning some entires on Lonestarball.com about it.
This irked some of his teammates including Brandon McCarthy, who fired back on Lone Star Ball. To which Wilson responded:
In response to McCarthy's post, Wilson offered praise for the commentary, but added: "Come on man you have to admit the median or average guy in a baseball clubhouse does drive an SUV, drinks beer, golfs, likes college sports, chews or dips tobacco and is relatively a [expletive]."See, I told you it was a bad thing when athletes spoke out. Teammates get angry. Grrr. (All Wilson's posts have now been taken off the site if you were looking for them.)
In any event, blogs rule. Welcome to the fun, C.J.!
Via Ballhype.




