As a Yanks fan, I’m not jealous of the Red Sox’s recent championship titles or superb lineup and pitching staff — but I do envy the team’s zany personality.

You got David Ortiz, one of the most charismatic sports figures of this era; Manny Ramirez, an awesomely flaked-out weirdo stoner and one of the game’s all-time greatest hitters; Daisuke Matsuzaka, who apparently invented his own pitch; John Papelbon, who seems to get fired up at the drop of a hat; and then you have Curt Schilling, an outspoken, unrepentant pain in the ass who is planning on running a video game company after he retires from baseball.

It’s called 38 Studios and supposedly two of his business partners are R.A. Salvatore, and, I shit you not, Todd McFarlane.

His new focus, post-pitching, will be to oversee the development of a still-unnamed and shrouded-in-mystery massively multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) that goes by the working title Copernicus.

And:

He says that some day he will be “intimately involved in making a baseball game…I will be a part of a company doing a sports game.” And at the moment, he’s playing Tabula Rasa, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, and EverQuest 2. And he thinks NBA 2K8 is “as close to realistic as a sports game can get.”

What else did Curt Schilling reveal about his upcoming game? Not a whole lot. He’s banking heavily on his own understanding of games, which is considerable, and his two creative partners — best-selling fantasy book author R.A. Salvatore and iconoclast comic book and action figure creator Todd MacFarlane — to create a blockbuster.

Go figure.

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