Curt Schilling Pissed ESPN Removed Bloody Sock Game from Airing of 30 For 30 Doc

Before the Yankees and Red Sox faced off in Fenway Park on Sunday Night Baseball last night, ESPN2 aired "Four Days in October," a 30 For 30 documentary about Boston's unbelievable comeback against the Yankees in 2004. The documentary has aired before, but apparently last night, Game 6, the infamous "Bloody Sock Game" was not included in this particular airing.

ESPN claimed that this was just a routine procedure to cut time because the softball game that aired before it went longer than anticipated, so they had to edit it down. The doc is divided into four segments—one for each game required to come back and win the series after going down three games to none—and so Schilldog's heroics wound up on the cutting room floor for this documentary that has already been shown, unedited, several times before.

Now—assuming this is true, and ESPN is not furthering a vendetta against a guy they fired for being racist a whole bunch of times—obviously they weren't going to cut Game 7. So that means if they were going to cut an entire segment, it was going to be one of either Game 4, 5, or 6. Now, you'd think if a game has its own name, like "the bloody sock game," it's not going to get cut, but recent events between Schilling and Bristol certainly make it seem…curious that his game was cut, and he was obviously pissed:

Wow, full one year complete fabrication to defame greatest QB, now omitting about 4 hours of a game I think I played in. Hmm #integritymuch?
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) May 2, 2016

For sale, never used, rarely worn ring from player who didn't actually have anything to do with getting it. pic.twitter.com/6qWxO3uRDN
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) May 2, 2016

I do like the hashtag https://t.co/7iPQ1unvRu
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) May 2, 2016

(It's #ESPNLies)

But what about those other games? Game 4 was the beginning of the comeback and it surely had it's own iconic moments. Dave Roberts is probably not even a major league manager right now but for his famous stolen base, and Mariano Rivera's blown save, in a deciding game. That game went to extra innings and ended on a David Ortiz walk-off home run. And Game 5 was just as nuts. Rivera, the greatest closer in baseball, blew another save and the teams again went to extra innings. At the time it was the longest ever postseason game, and it only ended when David Ortiz—who homered in the eighth inning to get the Sox within one run—singled in the winning run after a 10-pitch at bat in the 14th inning.

When you look at it this way—not to mention if you look at it as a rational human being and not an egomaniac who thinks every single thing in the world is personal attack on him—Schilling's Bloody Sock Game had to be the odd man out. Still, it's possible ESPN2 producers did get a little kick out of sticking it to a headache of a former employee in the process.