Terry Francona Tells Curt Schilling to "Zip It"

As reported on Boston.com, Terry Francona in an interview on WEEI this afternoon stated that he had spoken to Curt Schilling about his recent comments on Barry Bonds.

“Yeah, I actually talked to Schill yesterday about it, and you know again, he’s never been short on opinions, and so many of them are insightful, I just thought this was an area where you’re better off just leaving it alone. And he didn’t. And you know again, the problem is, it makes it tough for me, is that he comes to the ballpark and doesn’t talk to the media so I’m left to kind of clean up the mess which I really don’t feel like, but, again, I’ve been with Schill a long time. Nobody’s more crazy about Schill than me. I just ask him to kind of zip it a little bit, and I think he will.” Listen

Then asked the same question concerning David Ortiz Terry responded;

“I thought that was really different, in a different context,” Francona said. “If a writer comes up and asks you a question and you go ‘yeah,’ all of a sudden it’s big news. I felt bad yesterday ‘cause after I saw the article, and then I saw the headline, which didn’t even come close to being the article, and I thought that was very unprofessional on the paper’s part..." Listen

Unfortunately, all this news has taken away from another great start by Josh Beckett who won his 7th game, becoming the first pitcher to do so since Mickey Harris in 1946(RedSox.com).