Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff

You ever hear the saying; never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut? Doug Mirabelli might want to consider that next time he gets the urge to talk to Gary Thorne.

We don’t yet know exactly what Mirabelli told Thorne. I’m not sure we’ll ever really know. I’m willing to go out on a limb however and guess that the Red Sox backup catcher said SOMETHING to the Orioles play-by-play guy about the bloody sock, whether it was intended seriously, jokingly, or sarcastically. I can’t imagine a broadcaster of any reputation, let alone a national voice like Thorne’s, pulling a total lie out of you know where.

A lot of people have made sarcastic comments about Schilling faking the bloody sock thing to enhance his legend, including some former teammates with Arizona. So I’m not going to get on Thorne too much for going in that direction unless it was totally fabricated. However, for a teammate to say it, no matter what the intent, is capital S-T-U-P-I-D. We haven’t heard from Schilling yet (monitoring his blog constantly though), but he can’t be too pleased about Mirabelli engaging in such a discussion. Was it said as a joke or was it said out of jealousy/dislike for a teammate who tends to soak up the spotlight and might be rubbing some other folks in the clubhouse the wrong way because of it? I doubt we’ll ever know, but you can bet Curt Schilling and Doug Mirabelli do. And that’s an unnecessary dynamic to introduce into the clubhouse of a team with World Series aspirations.

To paraphrase Schilling’s WEEI comments to Butch Stearns: Doug, that’s a stupid, idiotic thing to say!

What do you think of the Thorne-Mirabelli-Schilling-bloody sock brouhaha? Will
it lead to clubhouse tension? Will Theo Epstein move quickly to get Mirabelli out of town?