While BlueMassGroup (please tell me that's not a play on "Blue Man Group") finds Schilling media-savvy and charismatic, I think he comes off as an arrogant crank whose talents on the mound certainly don't translate to any other arena.  And his pathetic performance on Celebrity Jeopardy should put the kibosh on any serious career outside of sports and video games.

In a sports-related thought, I find it extremely troubling how easily Sox Nation slips into religiosity.  Schilling as Jesus with a bloody sock, Damon as Judas, and so on.  I grew up with baseball, in a seriously sports-fanatical family, but for the life of me I can't understand why baseball should bring out the religious sentiment in anyone.  Maybe it's all the standing around and waiting for something to happen that seems to be the hallmark of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, too. 

You certainly don't see the same sentiment with football, which is an altogether more engaging spectator sport.  Football has everything you need in a sport, and football players themselves are unfailingly more delightful than baseball players.  There is always something neurotic about baseballers, but look at someone like Tom Brady (who is also a Republican, and would be a much better choice to run for office someday)—who's not afraid to admit he's "an emotional guy" and misses Deion (to name just one example).  A big, sensitive lug.  Gotta love him.

Fan-wise, football is more fun, too.  That's because it's a classic sporty-sport.  Strategic, dynamic.  Celebratory, energetic, invigorating, with a touch of the primitive.  Baseball is prim by comparison.  Puritanical in its way.  A sport played by neurotics for neurotics.  And Sox Nation is about as neurotic as it gets.

Go Pats!