The punishment for former major league pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling just keeps coming. Awful Announcing reported on Wednesday that ESPN has removed Schilling from the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast in light of his offensive (but now deleted) tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis. From AA:
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz tells Awful Announcing that Schilling will not be on the Sunday Night Baseball telecast this week.
ESPN has not publicly stated this absence as a suspension or given a time period on when Schilling may be back.
This isn’t the first time Schilling has posted controversial content on his social media accounts. Last year, he tweeted a manifesto against the theory of evolution. But the ramifications of Schilling’s recent PFT Commenter impersonation have already proven to be costly as the World Wide Leader has removed the pitcher from its Little League World Series coverage. Schilling has since taken to Twitter to apologize:
I understand and accept my suspension. 100% my fault. Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015
While opponents of the “PC Police” might point the rest of America to the door if it can’t handle the hot fiery takes (wake up sheeple!) in Schilling’s Twitter account, the reality is there’s no place for what he did and it’s become a hard lesson for him to learn. How long before ESPN decides Schilling has learned that lesson is a tough thing to predict, though.
(Via Awful Announcing)
