Curt Schilling Has Cancer
ESPN – ESPN baseball analyst and former major league pitcher Curt Schilling announced Wednesday that he has cancer. “I’ve always believed life is about embracing the gifts and rising up to meet the challenges,” Schilling said in a statement released by ESPN. “We’ve been presented with another challenge, as I’ve recently been diagnosed with cancer.” In December, ESPN announced that Schilling would be part of its “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast team for the upcoming season. It also announced a multiyear contract extension with him. Last year, Schilling told The Boston Globe he had a heart attack in November 2011 and had surgery to place a stent in one of his arteries. He said he experienced chest pains while watching his wife, Shonda, run in the New York City Marathon. Shonda Schilling also battled cancer after being diagnosed with stage 2 malignant melanoma in 2001. “Shonda and I want to send a sincere thank you and our appreciation to those who have called and sent prayers, and we ask that if you are so inclined, to keep the Schilling family in your prayers,” Schilling said in his statement. He added: “My father left me with a saying that I’ve carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: ‘Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.’ Over the years in Boston, the kids at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown us what that means. “With my incredibly talented medical team, I’m ready to try and win another big game. I’ve been so very blessed and I feel grateful for what God has allowed my family to have and experience, and I’ll embrace this fight just like the rest of them, with resolute faith and head on.”
Well this sucks. It’s like Schilling signed a deal with the Devil to pitch that bloody sock game and the Devil has been collecting ever since. I’m debating auctioning off my Schilling robe and donating the proceeds to the Jimmy Fund, but I don’t know if it’s too sad of a robe now? Plus the letters are kind of falling off. But still it is Schilling’s robe and people go bananas whenever they see it. Either way good luck Curt. #cancersucks