ESPN suspends Schilling after insensitve tweet
The former Phillies and Red Sox ace posted a graphic on Twitter comparing Muslims to Nazis.
CURT SCHILLING has never been afraid to let people know what he's thinking.
Whether it's wearing a towel over his head while Wild Thing botched another save, or outing trolls making nasty tweets about his college-bound daughter, Schill gets his point across.
Yesterday, he went strikingly too far.
The former Phillies and Red Sox ace posted a tweet on his Twitter account @gehrig38 that included a graphic of Adolf Hitler making an arm-extended Nazi salute. The pic was accompanied by text that read "It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"
Above the graphic, Schill wrote: "The math is staggering when you get to the true #s. "
He deleted the tweet minutes after posting it after reportedly receiving a deluge of negative comments. But nothing is really ever gone from the Internet, and it didn't take long for ESPN to issue a statement saying that Schilling had been axed from broadcasting this week's Little League World Series.
"Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company's perspective," ESPN said in a statement. "We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration."
No word on whether the incident will affect Shilling's major league baseball gig with the network.
Yesterday afternoon, he apologized on Twitter, writing: "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."
If the past is any indication, this won't be the last controversy involving Schill.
Last year, he argued against evolution, tweeting, "Hey clown, why don't apes still evolve into humans if that was the path?"
He has also shared pro-confederate flag posts, and is on record as saying his Republican party affiliation has cost him Hall of Fame votes.
