Happy Truck Day! (For those of you not familiar with Truck Day, it is the day the equipment truck leaves Fenway Park for Fort Myers.) But Truck Day eve brought a rather odd report from the Boston Globe that there is significant disagreement about the extent of Schilling's injury. The report casts a pitched battle between Schilling's personal surgeon, Dr. Craig Morgan, and the Red Sox medical staff. Dr. Morgan argues that resting and rehabbing Schilling’s shoulder has no chance of success as the shoulder has too much structural damage and must be repaired surgically. He also contends that, if Schilling has the surgery, he would be back around the All-Star game. The Red Sox maintain that surgery will end Schilling’s season. Because of the disagreement, the Sox and Schilling are using a third-party doctor for another opinion. Schilling has posted his side of the story but he seems willing (or required?) to go along with the Sox’s wishes.
I have nothing to offer in the way of analysis since I’m not a medical doctor, but this story is sufficiently bizarre that I find it troubling. Schilling’s doctor spoke directly to the Boston Globe, there seem to be leaks coming from the front office, and the story pits Schilling against the management. The story is sufficiently distasteful that it reminds me of the kind of stories in 2005 that concluded with Theo Epstein in a gorilla suit and an extended vacation. John Henry and Theo put the kibosh on the old front office culture but, when these stories break in this way, they echo back to a chapter that is best left closed.
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