There’s nothing quite like one of the preeminent pitchers of our day calling out the best pitcher of all time. But that’s where we find ourselves post-Mitchell Report, when a guy like Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling can call out (ex?) Yankee Roger Clemens for being a cheater. Too bad they’re both not back in the National League where they get a chance to throw at each other’s heads.

“What does that say about this game, us as athletes and the future of the sport and our place in it?” Schilling wrote on his blog, 38pitches.com. “The greatest pitcher and greatest hitter of all time are currently both being implicated, one is being prosecuted, for events surrounding and involving the use of performance-enhancing drugs.”

Schilling said Clemens must back his denial by retaining lawyers to obtain a retraction and public apology so his name can be “completely cleared.”

“If he doesn’t do that,” Schilling said, “then there aren’t many options as a fan for me other than to believe his career 192 wins and three Cy Youngs he won prior to 1997 were the end. From that point on the numbers were attained through using [performance-enhancing drugs]…”

We honestly can’t wait for Clemens coming back and saying Schilling’s famous World Series bloody sock was just red magic marker.

Schilling sticks it to Clemens [LA Times]
Image [ESPN]