Well this was not expected.

Curt Schilling came out and hammered Pete Rose in response to the Alex Coffey tweet that set off the weekend-long shit storm:

Alanis Morissette might have to go back and redo the lyrics for Ironic, because Schilling ripping Pete Rose was certainly not expected. Curt himself has been butting heads with the media for a long time now and is an outspoken conservative who finds himself in a controversy every other year. He has a longstanding feud with Mike Missanelli and called Glen Macnow a “dumb ass,” “coward,” and “lying-ass fraud.” If we were setting odds on which side Curt would take here, it would have been -750 that he felt like Coffey’s question amounted to an unfair ambush, that she’s fake news and all of that.

Mind you, he’s not necessarily siding with her. He’s just ripping Pete Rose via response to her tweet, but that is very surprising considering the patterns of Schilling behavior we’ve seen over the years. Schilling being the voice of reason in the Pete Rose saga could be the shocker of the year. Now we just need Aubrey Huff to chime in.

It’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s Curt Schilling absolutely destroying Pete Rose on Twitter
And who would’ve thought… it figures