Posted on 08/20/2012 9:15:45 PM PDT by South40
(AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Former major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling, whose video gaming company recently collapsed, called the governor a "dunce of epic proportions."
Schilling, who won a World Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks and then two with the Boston Red Sox, criticized independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Saturday exchange on Twitter about the collapse of 38 Studios, which got a $75 million loan guarantee from the state in 2010.
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People who lose $75M in a failed business should not call other people “dunces”.
I used to read his blog sometimes and I was always a little amazed at how much money he was spending on trying to make this game of his super perfect.
He was a good pitcher and probably a good “gamer.” But I suspect he really didn’t understand how the game business works and there were a lot of programmers and such out there who were ready, willing and able to take him to the cleaners.
He should call them "suckers."
Gee...really?
I played the game very good game actually.
He was also trying to get a Massive Multi Player Online game off the ground a lot of up front cost associated with that.
He sold over a million copies of the game in the first 3 months it was out and added some addition content to sell as add on.
There was a cash flow issue and when Linc Chafee went public it messed up some funding he was working on. Chafee was we know is a jerk. His opponent the previous gov was the guy who cut the deal with Schilling.
OTOH he should have tried for private venture capital rather than going to the government for the loan guarantees.
Government shouldn’t be in the venture capital whether Obama funding alt energy or states funding software companies.
Curt Schilling played with the Red Sox and lived in Massachusetts TOO long. He is your typical Massachusetts self-promoting DRAMA QUEEN not unlike that guy who was governor and invented Obamacare and that guy who ran for president and wind surfed in a spandex body suit. The less I see and hear from those three DRAMA QUEENS the better.
Don’t go hating on him of the bloody sock like that!
Don’t go hating on him of the bloody sock like that!
Don’t go hating on him of the bloody sock like that!
I interned for EA SPORTS years ago and it’s a city within a corporation. One of my routine then was sticking close to development of FIFA soccer games, as my assignment for the summer. One thing I learned so well is that if you are over 30, you are automatically over the hill.
The other night I was to tuned to the Red Sox telecast and Jerry Remy was telling a Manny will be Manny story about after Jimy Williams was fired and Kerrigan took over and Manny really did not want to play out the season so he did not get on the players bus to the park but the management and media bus and started playing music real loud and Kerrigan told him to turn down the music and Manny would not do it.
I liked Francona and I really respected Jason Varitek particularly when he slapped that Drama Queen Yankee juicer A-Fraud around.
But without adults like Francona and Varitek and with arrogant egos like Lucchino and John Henry and guy in over his head like Cherrington, and with all the bad contracts that Epstein made and the all the stupid decisions like making Bard a starter, the Red Sox may not make the playoffs for a decade even with two wild cards.
Schilling and Chafee are both useful idiots. Together they have provided us with yet another example showing that crony capitalism, a pillar of Obamunism, is a bad idea.
Both should now do something actually useful, like flip burgers or drive cabs or clean up yards.
Sounds as it we might have two dunces there.
Schilling was the real dunce, and greedy, and impatient. Who in their right mind accepts a $75 million dollar loan when you have absolutely zero products on the market at the time you accept the loan. Schilling’s 38 Studio had not released a single game and had zero reputation in the game industry. He also relocated his entire staff to R.I., causing many of the designers to have to leave behind homes for sale on a very down market, homes that in the end didn’t sell and strapped many of them with huge debts. Schilling had this grand vision of creating a huge MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) and was way to impatient to take the time to build up his studio’s portfolio and reputation. And the one game they released (Kingdoms of Amalur) was only moderately successful.
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