Baseball, particularly Red Sox baseball, has become more and more of a campaign issue in Massachusetts in recent years. Curt Schilling joined John McCain throughout New England in the 2008 election and Rudy Gulliani caught flack for saying he was rooting for the Red Sox in the 2007 World Series when he was a lifelong Yankee fan.
The Massachusetts special election for the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy, has seen even more Red Sox related campaigning. The #redsox hashtag on twitter has been hijack by spammers trying to influence voters with political tweets that have nothing to do with baseball. This strategy may backfire as it has been angering Red Sox fans.
Yesterday the issue became even bigger when Coakley made a monumental gaffe by saying Curt Schilling was a Yankee fan, the story is now making national news. Curt Schilling didn’t take long to respond:
But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….
It is doubtful that many will make up their mind on who to vote for based on one baseball comment but it does show how important baseball is in New England. I don’t think anyone in California would notice if Barbara Boxer made a wrong comment about the A’s.
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