A pat on the back to Curt Schilling for saying what very few people in baseball have the balls to say in public…

Schilling, in his weekly appearance on sports radio WEEI’s “Dennis and Callahan” show, was asked if baseball fans should hold their noses while watching Barry Bonds’s pursuit of Hank Aaron’s all-time Major League home run record.

“Oh yeah. I would think so. I mean, he admitted that he used steroids,” said Schilling. “I mean, there’s no gray area. He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes, and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think. Hank Aaron not being there. The commissioner [Bud Selig] trying to figure out where to be. It’s sad.

Indeed it is.

And yet he gets a pass.