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Schilling Appears With Bush
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling made a surprise appearance Monday morning with President Bush, limping to the stage to give Bush a strong endorsement.

Schilling won Game 2 of the World Series and Game 6 of the American League championship series with his ankle stitched to protect a torn sheath around a tendon. He was expected to undergo surgery this week, and had canceled an appearance with Bush on Friday.

Monday morning, he wore a protective boot over the ankle as he and his wife made their way to the stage inside an airplane hangar.

The ace pitcher said Bush was a commander in chief who will ensure troops "have everything they need to get the job done, a leader who believes in their mission and honors their service, a leader who has the courage and the character to stay on the offense against terrorism until the war is won."

Bush stood next to him, and they embraced afterward.

"On Tuesday, we need you to get out and vote. We need you to get your friends and neighbors out to vote - tell them you're voting for President Bush and get them on board, too," Schilling said. "I know everybody wants to be on a winning team, and there's plenty of room on this bandwagon."

In Burgettstown, Pa., just west of Pittsburgh, Schilling hobbled on stage with his wife, Shonda, and said he was proud to be a member of the championship team. Then he added: "I'm proud to be on a team with a more important mission - the team that's going to get George Bush re-elected."

Schilling will have surgery on his injured right ankle as long as an MRI shows no problems with infection, the team's doctor said before the World Series victory parade on Saturday.

Dr. Bill Morgan checked Schilling before the parade and said "he looked improved." An MRI is planned for Monday, with surgery possible on Wednesday.

"He wants to have it done yesterday, but we have to make sure that everything's where it has to be for right now," Morgan said. "Right now everything looks good but it's still a little red where the tissues are. We don't want to make incisions through that."

Schilling, who was walking with crutches and a cast on Saturday, has a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle that hobbled him during his first start of the AL championship series against the New York Yankees. In order to allow him to pitch the sixth game of the ALCS, doctors stitched his tendon in place so it didn't flop over the ankle bone.

The procedure was repeated before Game 2 of the World Series, and Schilling made a second strong start. But the second time caused Schilling more pain and Morgan said he wasn't sure it could be repeated for a third outing.

Schilling has since said that he could not have made his start in Game 6 of the Series, but it became moot when the Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four games for Boston's first world championship since 1918.

"We're shooting now for Wednesday," Schilling said. "It's important now to try to get healthy and get ready for next spring."

Morgan and Dr. George Theodore will perform the operation, which involves making a new sheath and putting the tendon in it. Schilling is expected to be in a cast four to six weeks and need six more weeks of rehabilitation.

"We just want to make sure that there's no evidence of infection and that the tendon looks healthy," Morgan said. "It's a soft tissue reconstruction so we just wanted to make sure all the tissues look healthy enough."

AP Sports Writer Howard Ulman contributed to this report.

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A couple of days too late, IMHO.

If the President loses New Hampshire, I'm going to lay it at Curt's bum foot. But the President will win New Hampshire, and we all will be vindicated.

The thing about Curt Schilling's mistake is that he admitted it right away and made amends. He's a better man than I am.

As for that other "hero" from Massachusetts, he won't admit his mistakes, even after 30+ years. He's an arrogant gigilo.
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