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Curt Schilling makes his pitch as a blogger. Plus: This column turns 5.

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March 8, 2007 | Curt Schilling has a blog.

Hey, who'da thunk it? Schilling always seemed like a guy who had nothing to say, didn't he?

Well, one day into the life of 38Pitches.com Wednesday, Schilling had posted twice and written 2,600 words. Let's see if he can keep up that pace. If he does, he'll hit the disabled list faster than Joel Zumaya on a five-day "Guitar Hero" bender.

It's pretty good so far. In his first post, he introduced the blog, but later in the day he posted about the beginning of spring training, and if 38 Pitches continues to be anything like that second post, you might want to bookmark it.

After a short assessment of the Red Sox, Schilling gets into the nitty-gritty of pitching, one of the things he really ought to know a lot about. He writes that Daisuke Matsuzaka is "legit" -- not that he'd say the opposite if he thought it -- and gives a short primer on early-spring command. "Misses tell you as much as strikes do about command," he writes. "Does the pitcher miss on the side of the plate where he's throwing? These are always good misses."

Schilling writes about trying to master a change-up -- he says he got his first swing and a miss on one in his second outing, against the Minnesota Twins -- and about how he should have shaken off catcher Jason Varitek before throwing a fastball to Minnesota's Michael Cuddyer:

"I start Cuddyer off with a curve ball -- strike one," he writes. "My thought as the pitch is being called is, 'OK, anything but a fastball here.' Tek puts down fastball in, I shake no. Tek puts it down again, which means he feels great about the pitch. At this point the ONLY thing to do is commit to the pitch and throw it as I called it or step off. I do neither. Mentally I think no, but physically I nod yes. In the middle of my windup I'm thinking, 'OK, you idiot, why the hell are you throwing this pitch?' About ten seconds later, when the ball lands over the left-field wall, I'm dropping words I'd put soap in my kids' mouths for saying."

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