The state of Rhode Island is having trouble collecting some of the millions it lent former pitcher Curt Schilling, another reminder why chasing celebrity is almost always a bad thing. Schilling met with the state's governor on Wednesday to ask for even more help, after his 38 Studios company missed a $1.1 million payment on a $75 million loan guarantee state officials gave him to lure the video game company from Massachusetts two years ago. Schilling was in full baseball mode afterward, refusing to answer questions about how much taxpayers might be on the hook for his business venture. Like most others, I thought Schilling was retired, and had taken his talents elsewhere. [...] this spring, I thought Manny Ramirez was retired, too. Get your credit card out now and you can buy a Manny Pack of tickets when they get home, complete with a Manny Ramirez T-shirt, while supplies last. Nothing at all like the guy who cheated baseball and paying fans in cities across the country by bulking up with performance enhancing drugs to hit home run after home run. In case you've forgotten, the real reason Ramirez was gone from baseball was that while making an average of $22.5 million a year from/for the Dodgers, he tested positive for a banned female fertility drug used to mask steroid use. According to a New York Times report, he also was one of the players who tested positive for steroids during MLB's anonymous survey testing in 2003.
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