Solidarity for Curt: National Wear-Ketchup-on-Your-Sock Day

America's favorite Redsock may be hanging up his Heinz.

Yes, Curt Schilling says the comeback tour, a la Carl Pavano, probably won't happen.

(There, there. Try to breathe. Take a pill. No, life isn't fair. But sometimes we just have to soldier on, as if we have ketsup in our shoe.)

His election to the U.S. Senate can come later. The same with Curt's certain installation to Cooperstown, where an animated bloody sock can tell children how He brought a World Series championship to the long-suffering Bostonians, uniting the Rico and Petrocellian tribes.

Meanwhile, let's show our own support for the Schill by wearing a dab of ketsup on our socks today. A small symbol of the red paint that He hath shed for thee.Oh, and one other thing...

WE'RE NOT DONE YET!

SEVEN OF NINE, BABY! THAT'S ALL WE NEED! SEVEN OF NINE!

THE ROAD TO THE 2008 WILD CARD CROWN WEAVES THROUGH NEW YORK CITY!

IT'S TIME TO MUTHER-UP, COMPADRES, BECAUSE WE'RE WINNING SIX IN A ROW!