“I literally could not invent more ways to screw up than Curt Schilling has with 38.”

Curt Schilling a hypocrite about smaller government

Let’s stipulate here that the Rhode Island officials who committed this public money to 38 Studios are idiots. I mean nothing negative by that; it’s just the only possible adjective that applies. All right, maybe “sycophants” works as well because they were probably hyperventilating at the sight of his World Series rings and that he knew their names. Really, what public official bets the farm on a video game called “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,” while Central Falls is in receivership and Providence is fending off bankruptcy?

38 Studios bond sale benefited local lawyers

At least someone benefited.

The Hard Lesson From the Downfall of Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios - Forbes

Amalur had no style. It had gameplay and it was expansive, but there was nothing that made the game pop off the screen and demand the player’s attention. It was a decent game, and perfectly entertaining. But it was not the game to bet the fate of a studio on.

Bloody Hypocrite: Schilling’s 38 Studios Fires 413

But he tried to raise private funding and got turned down. And there’s no reason that venture firms should have given him money. After all, he had no experience running a company and video games companies are notoriously bad start-up investments.

Editorial: 38 Studios and the Dunkin delusions

I’ve covered a lot of companies in distress; I’ve gotten the hate mail that comes with it. It doesn’t matter if the truth comes out a week later, I can accept the rage. What I’ve never been able to witness before is the denial.

Curt Schilling, Shilling | Boston Daily

Let us consider how totally full of bull former Sox pitcher and current Republican shill Curt Schilling really is.

Just two months ago, Curt Schilling sat down with Fox News’ gleefully smarmy host Sean Hannity to brag about his new video game company, 38 Studios, and commiserate with Hannity about the many burdens President Obama and big government Democrats placed on noble people like him, a job creator. He wailed:

“Every dollar I can’t commit to my company that’s paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don’t want done.”

Jobs at 38 Studios | 38 Studios

“There are currently a total of 18 open job(s).”

38 Studios woes mount up; some former employees saddled with 2nd mortgages

“…upper management may have lied to several ex employees about the situation concerning the security of their homes.”

Curt Schilling was only about Curt Schilling

Probably the best thing I’ve read about this pathetic story yet.

Turns out Schilling is basically the welfare recipient he has told us is responsible for so much of our current economic troubles. He happily and famously accepted money from Rhode Island to help out his business — which is, of course, perfectly within his rights but spits in the face of everything he has ever said or written when it comes to government — and when he couldn’t make payments on the $75 million loan he got on his hands and knees and begged the state for more money, as all true advocates of small government should. A real Tea Party moment. And when the decision-makers said no, what did Schilling do?

Follow his own words, written two years ago — “It falls on us, the individuals, to find a way out of our own personal crisis.” Sort of, I guess. He sure found a way out, the ol’ path of least resistance.

But not before Schilling does what Schilling does best, make sure his own ass is covered. He advanced the company $4 million of his own money months ago but was paid back with funds from the Rhode Island loan.