Red Sox Legend Curt Schilling to Take On Elizabeth Warren

Boston hometown hero Curt Schilling announced his intention to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts 2018 Senate race Tuesday.

In an appearance on Rhode Island radio station WPRO, the former Red Sox star said he is certain of his intent to run — although he hasn’t yet discussed the possible bid with his own family.

“I’ve made my decision. I’m going to run.”

“I’ve made my decision. I’m going to run,” Schilling said. “But I haven’t talked to Shonda, my wife. And ultimately it’s going to come down to how her [sic] and I feel this would affect our marriage and our kids.”

An electoral matchup between Warren and Schilling would surely make for spectacular spectator sport.

An outspoken conservative and early and ardent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Schilling is likely to continue to spread Trump’s anti-Establishment, anti-globalist message.

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Indeed, just hours after hinting at his intention to mount a bid against Warren, liberals in Massachusetts were already trying to tie Schilling to the GOP nominee. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey tweeted, “[Schilling] is TrumpLite.”

As a hero of blue-collar, anti-elitist baseball fans throughout Massachusetts, Schilling is in a unique position to try to capitalize on the same populist appeal that has brought Trump within striking distance in other traditionally Democratic states. By contrast, Warren, the cold and calculating academic, is a living, breathing caricature of elitist arrogance and aloofness — even if she professes to stand for a progressive brand of populism.

As one would expect from an outspoken supporter of Trump, Schilling is also an outspoken critic of Clinton — which could be another potential benefit should Clinton get into the White House. In March, Schilling said in an interview that Hillary Clinton should be in jail.

“If I’m going to believe, and I don’t have any reason not to believe, that she gave classified information on hundreds if not thousands of emails on a public server after what happened to Gen. Petraeus, she should be buried under a jail somewhere,” Schilling said during an interview. “If she’s allowed to get to the general election before she’s in prison, I’ll be stunned and I’ll be upset.”

Schilling’s run would not be easy. The former pitcher has landed in a number of controversies over the last year or so. In September 2015, Schilling was suspended by ESPN for a tweet that compared radical Islam to Nazism.

One would think that comparing radical Islam — a violent, anti-Semitic totalitarian ideology — and Nazism, which also happens to be a violent, anti-Semitic totalitarian ideology, would not be so controversial, but ESPN bowed to manufactured liberal outrage.

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Schilling was able to survive the incident, but another interaction on social media this year ended up costing him his job. In April, Schilling posted an image of a fat man disguised poorly as a woman, with the accompanying text, “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.”

This time, however, Schilling’s satirical jab at the progressive powers that be — in this case, in the argument for gender identity — was too much for ESPN, which promptly fired him.

While Schilling’s outspokenness could be a hindrance in his efforts to win a Senate seat in deep blue Massachusetts, it is also a major reason for his popularity — much like Trump’s. “A lot of people have told me in the past — ‘You tell it like it is,'” Schilling said in 2015. “I try to explain to people that I don’t. I tell it like I think it is.”