Listen as Larry spoke with former MLB pitcher and host of ‘Whatever It Takes’, Curt Schilling, about ESPN replacing Sage Steele, baseball intentional walk rules and more.
During the interview, Schilling addressed the political climate at ESPN:
O’Connor: Last I heard, I thought it was ESPN’s mandate that they’re trying to keep politics off their broadcast, but it’s just a certain type of politics, right?
Schilling: Well if you listen to them, they are some of the most racist people in sports on that station. Stephen A. Smith being one of them. Tony Kornheiser compared ISIS to the Tea Party. But again, that’s their right as a company. I just find it amusing that they don’t have the backbone and the guts to stand behind it.
Schilling also debunked the idea that the new intentional walk rule will cut down on the length of the game:
Schilling: How many intentional walks happen a day in all 16 games?
O’Connor: Well probably more in the National League than the American league. But hell, I don’t know, like 10 maybe?
Schilling: Right, but you’re talking about maybe 5 or 10? What, you’re talking about, maybe at most, 3 to 4 minutes total? So I mean, you’re not saving any time but that’s not something … Listen, as long as television pays baseball billions of dollars, the games are going to be long because baseball will acquiesce to whatever television wants. And for television to get a billion dollars back in their money, they have to advertise. They have to sell advertising.
O’Connor: We’re, by the way, in full support of advertising here on WMAL. We love advertising.
Schilling: Look, and that’s fine. I don’t have a problem with that. But it is what it is.
O’Connor: And that’s what makes the game long, right?
Schilling: Yea! Yea! That’s why athletes … I can tell you as a player, we despise being on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. Hated it, because it is a 4 hour game. Even if it’s a 2 hour game, it’s a 4 hour game.
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