38 days ’til Opening Day: Curt Schilling

There are 38 days left until that best day of the year, MLB’s Opening Day.

38 is also the number Curt Schilling wears on his jersey.

It looks like Schilling’s going to miss some time this season due to an injury, which he blogged about at 38pitches.com. And that’s too bad — I’m far from a Red Sox fan, but the league’s more interesting when he’s around.

I disagree with a lot of what Schilling says, but I’m glad he says what he thinks in the media and on his blog. There a tons of baseball players with their own blogs now, the ones that I know of include: (and if there’s one I don’t put on this list that you know of, please point it out) John Lackey, Curtis Granderson, Dontrelle Willis, Phil Hughes, Pat Neshek, Todd Jones*, Kevin Youkilis, C.J. Wilson, Chad Billingsley, Nate Robertson, and Geoff Jenkins.

Of course, Schilling has the most famous blog of these and is the most famous player. It’s common for people to rip him, but given his great career, I’d vote for him for the hall of fame if I could. I hope more players start blogging — sometimes, they can be insightful about the sport we all love in ways we never imagined.

*Not really a blog, but Todd’s been writing at The Sporting News before athletes really had blogs.