Schilling backs off Bonds comments in blog

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NEW YORK (SI.com) -- One day after ripping Barry Bonds in a local radio interview, Boston Red Sox right-hander Curt Schilling issued an apology to the Giants slugger on his personal blog, 38Pitches.com.

"Regardless of my opinions, thoughts and beliefs on anything Barry Bonds it was absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did," Schilling wrote on Wednesday.

"I'd love to tell you I was ambushed, misquoted, misinterpreted, something other than what it was, but I wasn't. I'm thinking that waking up at 8:30 am to do the weekly interview we do with WEEI is probably not the greatest format and if you heard the interview it's not hard to realize that I'm usually awake about 30-45 seconds before it begins. That's still no excuse or reason to say what I did, or even answer the question that was asked. The question I was asked and the answer I gave yesterday affected a lot more people than just he and I. His wife, his children, his friends and his family were all affected by that, as were mine and my teammates."

Bonds has never admitted to knowingly taking steroids, though Schilling must have thought otherwise when he spoke to WEEI on Tuesday morning.

"He [Bonds] admitted he used steroids. There's no gray area," Schilling said on WEEI. "He [Bonds] admitted cheating on his wife, cheating on taxes and cheating on the game."

Wrote Schilling on his blog: "It was a callous, wreckless and irresponsible thing to say, and for that I apologize to Barry, Barry's family, Barry's friends and the Giants organization, my teammates and the Red Sox organization as well as anyone else that may have been offended by the comments I made."