MASN Announcer Questions Veracity Of Schilling’s ’04 Sock

MASN Announcer Questions Schilling's '04 Bloody Sock

A Red Sox official said that the team “may seek a retraction” after MASN’s Gary Thorne said on the air during last night’s Red Sox-Orioles game that he had been told by Red Sox C Doug Mirabelli “that was not blood, but paint,” on Red Sox P Curt Schilling’s sock during Game Six of the ’04 ALCS, according to Gordon Edes of the BOSTON GLOBE. Thorne: “It was painted. Doug Mirabelli confessed up to it after. It was all for PR.” During a break later in the game, Thorne “confirmed that’s what he said, and that Mirabelli had told him so in a conversation ‘a couple of years ago.’” But Mirabelli said after the game, “I never said that. I know it was blood. Everybody knows it was blood.” Edes notes the suggestion “has been made in the past. ... But it has never been stated so matter-of-factly, and with a Sox player’s name attached” (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/26).