Curt Schilling has managed to do it again.
This isn’t the first time that Mr. Schilling didn’t think before he tweeted and he’s had to face the wrath of the public after. Today’s gaffe might just be the worst of the bunch.
The tweet below is a screen cap from Yahoo! Sports’ Nick Bromberg, who captured Curt Schilling’s blunder before he quickly deleted it.
Sigh pic.twitter.com/s1Zjab4W7z
— Nick Bromberg (@NickBromberg) August 25, 2015
As a result, Curt Schilling was sent home from Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he was sent by ESPN to cover the Little League World Series as punishment from ESPN for the offensive tweet. He however is still hasn’t lost his seat in the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast booth. Here is ESPN’s statement on the matter:
ESPN comment on Schilling: Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration.
This isn’t the first time the 20-year big league veteran has gotten himself in trouble for politically charged comments. Here are two previous incidents:
No Hall of Fame because I’m a Republican.
Back in January of 2015, Schilling said in a radio interview that he lost votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame because he is a Republican. Here is Kieth Olbermann’s monologue from his now defunct television show “Olbermann” on the incident that very well explains the whole situation. It even includes the audio from Schilling’s interview included towards the end of the video.
Evolution isn’t real.
Back in November of 2014, Curt Schilling sent out a tweet linking to a poorly produced YouTube video about how evolution couldn’t possibly be real.
Settle in and listen to this world changing mind, he’s eccentric and awesome, you have to rethink your world. https://t.co/Lf7FMjh00D
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 12, 2014
He wasn’t done there. He got into a public argument with ESPN Baseball writer Kieth Law about it too.
The example. Every living creature came from one cell? Show me the fossils of the beings that became humans, before they were humans…
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 13, 2014
This is the same as your crazy uncle constantly sending you “scientific articles” from the internet about how the earth is going to be destroyed by the sun’s evil twin Nemesis or how about how fluoride in the water is the government’s way of implanting mind control devices into everyone.
Just got to say it Curt. C’mon man! Just please shut up about anything but baseball. If you like your job at ESPN you have to keep all the crazy talk private. The last thing a sports media company wants is someone rocking the boat. Just keep it quiet and keep one of the coolest jobs in the world.
If you can’t help it, just retire from ESPN and try something else. Just don’t try and develop any more video games, bankrupt your company, and not repaying a $75 million dollar loan to the State of Rhode Island.