The Curt Schilling era in Boston may be at an end.

In his usual manner of delivering news, Curt told WEEI this morning that the "plateau" of pain he experienced throwing during his side session last week is much more than that -- he's going to need season-ending surgery. Although he's not exactly sure what kind of surgery that will be.

According to Schilling, the procedure will involve a relocating of the biceps muscle, plus "some other stuff," Schilling said. When asked if that "other stuff" might entail repair to the labrum and rotator cuff, Schilling wouldn't speculate, saying that would be determined after he went under the knife.

Curt seems to be pretty realistic regarding what this surgery will mean for him:

"There's a chance a lot of things could happen here. My season's over. There's a pretty decent chance that I've thrown my last pitch forever, so I don't care. It doesn't matter. I'm going in to make it not hurt anymore, which is pretty much all I care about."

"Off of surgery there's two other possibilities, two potentials, which was I could wake up after the surgery and be told 'you know what, it's been a good run, you got no shot of getting back out there' which is something I've ... had to be OK with because it's a potentially likely scenario," he said. "And the other one is, we fixed it but whatever happens between now and when you decide to pitch again, it's going to be five times as much than you ever had to do from a rehabilitation standpoint. Those are the two surgery results.

"The second option to me was my career's over today. If I don't have surgery, my career's over today. So, I've had to sit back and weigh those options and figure out what we wanted to do."