# This just in: Curt Schilling is a moron!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [November 13, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544 "2014-11-13T17:27:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544/21 "2014-11-28T08:31:20Z")
Opinions can’t be wrong?
What an idiotic thing to say. Luckily it immediately disproves itself.
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### Author:  [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544/22 "2014-11-29T07:18:03Z")
I’m _tempted_ to blow this off as the harmless blatherings of an ex-jock who simply has no idea what to do with the rest of his life (and cut him some slack for helping end MLB’s 85-frickin’-years albatross)…but…you never know. Sometimes a random bit of boneheaded spewage amounts to nothing (remember that “AABA” thing a few whatevers back?), sometimes people believe every goddam word for no goddam discernible reason, and a whole lot of innocents get screwed for it. To this day I’m flabbergasted that 1. anyone, _anyone at all,_ accepted Jenny McCarthy as some kind of authority on the risks of vaccines, or 2. the damage she did didn’t put her on a thousand crap lists for life.
I’m sorry, dalej42. I don’t laugh when good people get hurt. If this doesn’t go anywhere, I might be able to manage a sigh of relief.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544/23 "2014-11-29T08:17:12Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> “Ignorance”, as you put it, is absolutely an opinion.
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> He can get on TV and say that evolution didn’t happen, aliens exist, Bigfoot is living in his guest house, the Jews cost Al Gore the Election, and the Holocaust didn’t happen, and regardless of his statements’ ability to be proven…it’s still his opinion. And given that it’s just an opinion it is neither right nor wrong, just different from yours
Doesn’t mean someone else can’t comment on that opinion. Or, to put it another way, I can have an opinion on his opinion. Two way street and all that.
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544/24 "2014-11-29T15:16:37Z")
I’ve always classified those types of “opinions” differently than actual opinions. A real opinion, to me, speaks of a personal preference that is unprovable, unknowable, or ephemeral. When an opinion treads on facts, stating its validity one way or another, I call that something else and it very much can be idiotic and wrong.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-curt-schilling-is-a-moron/704544/25 "2014-11-29T15:23:37Z")
I’ve always hated Schilling since his playing days, both for the things he says and due to his being a player for teams that I didn’t like.
That being said I do think there was more nuance in that whole business arrangement than is being portrayed.
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