Why is Schilling so outspoken about the Red Sox hiring Valentine?

You have to remember, Curt Schilling is all about Curt Schilling. The ultimate "Legend in his own mind". Regardless who got the managerial job in Boston you can be sure Schilling would have been contrary to any decision. Schilling is about getting his name in the paper, seeing his face on TV, hearing his voice on the radio.

Every so often Schilling needs an ego fix. The timing was just about right!

First, Schilling is "outspoken" about many things. Second, you have to remember the nature of his "curse-breaking" Red Sox team...

That was a team where the players took charge. There were some big egos and big personalities, sometimes it seems like they were playing against their own management...but they pulled together as a team under the under-stated leadership of Terry Francona.

There is nothing "under-stated" about Valentine. He can be abrasive and will often clash with egos bigger than his own. He is like the super-intense "rah rah" football coach who thrives in college but then fails in the pros when he finds out that mulit-millionaires don't always respond to cheerleading and threats.

If this was still a team dominated by established veterans and free-agent mercenaries like Schilling's Sox, I might agree...and I still wonder if Valentine can truly connect with this generation of players...But this team has a core of young guys who came up through the Sox system together. If upper management is committed to keeping them together an building around them, then you could do a lot worse than having a guy like Bobby V to mold and guide them on the right way to play the game.

My reaction is, "So why did no longer he in the present day tell " A, The participant's Union or B, The Baseball Commissioner, and/or C, The Media? If the allegation through Mr. Schilling is genuine, are not the purple Sox accountable of a few thing?

Dale Sveum has no managent credentials, while Bobby V, is higfh profile, but a lot of it is all about Bobby. Then he's got guys like Tommy Lasorda saying how great he is.

The thing is, the Red Sox are a post season level club, so I reckon I could get them to the post season, with the current roster, so if Bobby does that, he will be proclaimed a hero,

I haven't believed Schilling since the day he swore to the Philadelphia media that he would never leave the Phillies. Ten days later he signed with the D-Backs. Schilling is just trying to get attention. One of baseball's biggest jerks.

The more I hear Senator Schilling talk the more I wish he would move to Arizona.

He has pals @ WEEI that welcome his D...headedness. Now he is probably shilling for Schilling so he can be front and center for the Barney Frank gig. What a joke

Asking why Schilling is so outspoken about something is like asking why Donald Trump is so outspoken about something.

Schilling runs his mouth on every topic. Once in a while he gets one right. he got this one right.

Schilling is right. Bobby V only made it to 2 postseasons in 15 years of managing. Plus, he criticized some of the Boston players during their September collapse. I thought he's a bad fit too!

Pretty obvious to me that he has no love for Valentine at all.