Baseball Guru
07-17-2005, 07:20 PM
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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Mitch Williams didn't have to see Curt Schilling get spanked by Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez on Thursday night in the ace's new job as Red Sox closer to predict his former Philadelphia Phillies teammate won't be able to re-invent himself as a late-inning reliever.
``He better stay with what he has been doing,'' Williams, nicknamed ``Wild Thing,'' told George King of the New York Post. ``He has a great mentality to be a starter, but there is no way he can get it up four times a week. He tried it in Houston and got his brains beat out.''
Williams hasn't talked to Schilling since 1993, when the then-Phillies closer called out Schilling after hearing that his teammate was ripping him on the radio for losing the World Series to the Toronto Blue Jays. The left-hander gave up a Series-ending home run to Joe Carter.
``You don't patch it up with a man you don't have any respect for,'' he said. ``You can't make a man. He is a helluva pitcher - but he isn't a man. The last time I talked to him, I called him after he was ripping me on the radio. I told him I would drive to his house and that he should go borrow some guts and come outside. He said it wasn't him saying those things, that it was Lenny Dykstra. That's the last time I talked to him.''
What about Schilling's 2004 postseason?
``You can't take away from what he has done as a pitcher, but I will kiss your butt if that ankle was as bad as it was,'' Williams said. ``It was a built-in excuse if something went wrong.''
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Mitch Williams didn't have to see Curt Schilling get spanked by Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez on Thursday night in the ace's new job as Red Sox closer to predict his former Philadelphia Phillies teammate won't be able to re-invent himself as a late-inning reliever.
``He better stay with what he has been doing,'' Williams, nicknamed ``Wild Thing,'' told George King of the New York Post. ``He has a great mentality to be a starter, but there is no way he can get it up four times a week. He tried it in Houston and got his brains beat out.''
Williams hasn't talked to Schilling since 1993, when the then-Phillies closer called out Schilling after hearing that his teammate was ripping him on the radio for losing the World Series to the Toronto Blue Jays. The left-hander gave up a Series-ending home run to Joe Carter.
``You don't patch it up with a man you don't have any respect for,'' he said. ``You can't make a man. He is a helluva pitcher - but he isn't a man. The last time I talked to him, I called him after he was ripping me on the radio. I told him I would drive to his house and that he should go borrow some guts and come outside. He said it wasn't him saying those things, that it was Lenny Dykstra. That's the last time I talked to him.''
What about Schilling's 2004 postseason?
``You can't take away from what he has done as a pitcher, but I will kiss your butt if that ankle was as bad as it was,'' Williams said. ``It was a built-in excuse if something went wrong.''