Curt Speaks on Yesterday's Events

Unsurprisingly, Curt Schilling had some words of wisdom about yesterday's events on his blog. I'll post the critical points of what he had to say below:

"The ‘staff’ as they are called, is made up of a group of incredibly passionate, hard working and devoted baseball people. From strength coaches, to head trainers, to BP coaches and catchers these are the members of our families that very rarely get recognition for putting in twice the effort and time we do as players, for 1/100th the pay. Year after year they are the least appreciated and respected employees in many organizations...In a 30-0 vote we agreed that we would not take the field for the game, nor get on the bus for the trip to Japan if the agreement to compensate the staff was not honored."

"I am proud as h*ll to be a part of a group of men who were absolutely 100% willing to not step on this plane and make this trip, knowing full well we would be in violation of our contracts, we’d potentially be forfeiting games and much much more, to stand behind a group of people that have very few supporters. Yes you could argue that doing that would have been disrespectful to the game, and fans, but we disagreed. In our minds anyone who had in mind to do what was right would have make the exact same decisions we did."

Also, as of around 11:15 this morning, our team (minus Josh Beckett) is now in Japan! Opening Day is just around the corner, and I can hardly wait!!