Sep 9th 2008 1:50PM by Will Brinson (author feed)
Filed under: Patriots, NFL Injuries, NFL Media WatchCurt Schilling may or may not be retiring. The former would mean less “schilling” (a new verbal use of the word which MLB FanHouse coined to mean ‘blowing copious amounts of hot air’) to the media, in theory. Although if today is any indication, maybe not.

See, Schill got on WEEI radio and waxed somewhat correctly about the state of sports in New York and Boston. And how people hate Tom Brady.
“People don’t like [New England/Boston] anymore. The euphoria in New York is palpable. The Yankees suck this year, and they’re bitter and mad and they’re making excuses over that. Now they got Tom going down, so New York is excited.”
I use “somewhat” because I don’t think New Yorker is excited to see Brady out for the season. In fact, I think at least like 15% of New Yorkers (legit ones, not transplanted Bostonians) would say they’re sad to see the Golden Boy hurt.

However, Schilling is dead-on-b-accurate about the general public’s feelings towards Boston. They’re the new New York in terms of having winning teams whose fan base refuses to stop being generally obnoxious about their teams.

Oh and yes, the Yankees might not be “great” this year. But I don’t know that there’s a direct correlation between “no playoffs” and “wish for Tom Brady to get hurt.”