The most entertaining athletes are the most transparent ones, and no one makes information about their life and career available to the public than Curt Schilling does on 38pitches.com. Over the weekend, he took that transparency to a new level by actually posting pictures taken of his shoulder during his recent surgery (warning: a couple of the pictures are not for the squeamish) and giving everyone a detailed recap of what took place. Schilling's trademark blowhardedness aside, I actually thought that the whole idea by Schilling to post those pictures was pretty cool. How many times have you wondered just what happened when a pitcher for your favorite team went under the knife? Who actually knew that labrums were all fluffy-looking? Med students, maybe. Baseball fans, not so much.
Of course, since Schilling's involved it's pretty clear that there's an ulterior motive. There was a lot of speculation about his latest injury (whether or not he knew about before re-signing with the Red Sox, whether or not he would ever pitch again), and Schilling uses the post to describe the injury, why it wasn't caught earlier, how it was fixed, and what that means for his future chances of pitching again.
Schilling's blog gives him a chance to give everyone (the fans, the media, teams he might pitch for in 2009) his side of the story without anyone trying to spin it. Why don't more professional athletes have blogs again?
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