Curt Schilling for President.
Let him run as a Democrat, Republican, Independent or as a representative of the Twitter Party. Just run. Puh-leeze.
Because the former major league pitching great and current ESPN analyst once more is proving he can get things done in a hurry rather than at the speed of Congress, which makes turtles look like Usain Bolt.
Just consider what Schilling did this past week to a couple of social media trolls who aimed vulgar, pornographic tweets at his 17-year-old daughter Gabby. He basically vaporized them with words, much as they'd tried to do to Gabby.
It took him less than five days to rat them out and humiliate them in front of the entire Internet. We've got a government that would probably take twice that long, then spend a couple of more weeks deciding whether such a counterattack would violate the troubled trolls' civil rights.
Instead, Schilling hurled a fast ball at their heads, telling the world their real names, where they worked, lived and went to school. And as the father of two young daughters, I couldn't be prouder of him. If I had a Hall of Fame vote, he'd own it. From now on.
It all started a week ago on Feb. 25. Understandably proud that Gabby had been accepted to Salve Regina University, Schilling sent out a tweet that read: "Congrats to Gabby Schilling who will pitch for the Salve Regina Seahawks next year!!"
It might be worth a quick pause here to note that if you don't share your personal triumphs, tragedies and whatnot with the general public, the not so genial side of that public will never be tempted to show that not so genial side.
But I suppose that genie left the bottle long ago.
Anyway, at some point within an hour or so of Schilling's original tweet, the vile bile began to flow. Thankfully, you can't repeat this stuff in a family paper, other than to repeat Schilling's correct description that "They made conscious decisions to talk about rape and sex and defiling a 17-year-old girl."
It was all so disgusting that I'm not sure I've ever seen anything this pornographic on a bathroom wall. It might be creepy enough to make Hustler publisher Larry Flynt wince.
That Twitter has no swift way to void such filth is in and of itself amazing. When Schilling even took the time to email Twitter the tweets, figuring they'd be immediately removed, he says he was told they weren't outside Twitter's acceptable boundaries.
But what Schilling did next was as sweet as any of his 216 career wins in major league baseball. He typed a 1,700-word blog Sunday morning that called out these bums by name.
Regarding the first, a student radio DJ named Adam Nagel who goes by the Twitter handle "The Sports Guru," Schilling wrote: "DJ is a bit strong since he's on the air for 1 hour a week on Brookdale Student Radio at Brookdale Community College. How do you think that place feels about this stud representing their school? You don't think this isn't going to be a nice compilation that will show up every single time this idiot is googled the rest of his life? What happens when a potential woman he's after googles and reads this?"
Then there was the second guy, Sean MacDonald, a.k.a. "Hollywood," who earned this rebuff from Schilling: "The other clown? He's VP of the Theta Xi fraternity at Montclair State University. I gotta believe if Theta Xi is cool with a VP of one of their chapters acting like this I'd prefer to have no one I know in it. Also, does anyone attending Montclair State University have a student handbook? If so can you pass it along because I am pretty sure there are about 90 violations in this idiot's tweets."
To further young Mr. MacDonald's problems, he had become a part-time employee of the New York Yankees, who swiftly fired him upon learning of his repugnant role in this.
Earlier this week, on a Boston radio station, Schilling said, "I'm a guy. Since I've been here (on earth) I've said a million things I wish I hadn't, but this is not being a guy. There is nothing about this that is manly."
There is nothing about this that should be remotely acceptable. If it's not, it should be criminal. The sooner the better.
And while Schilling believes his own daughter is tough enough to move on from this, he also has said this week, "What part of the news are these people not seeing on a daily basis where kids on a daily basis are killing themselves from being cyber bullied?"
Nor is the problem going away unless we all work hard to eliminate it.
As Schilling noted during a guest appearance on ESPN radio's "The Dan Patrick Show," when asked why not just stay off social media, "Sure, don't get on the Internet. But this is how our kids communicate."
For any parent, but particularly the father of a daughter, it's terrifying. More so every day. Where were these creeps' parents when they were growing up? Where are they now?
Said Schilling for victims everywhere: "No one in the world deserves to be talked about like this."
But anyone who talks such talk deserves to have the whole world know their wicked words. Thank goodness Schilling made certain we did.
Contact Mark Wiedmer at mwiedmer@timesfreepress.com.