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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsESPN Welcomes Curt Schilling Back Even After His Disturbing Hillary Clinton Comments
ESPN has an explicit policy against employees editorializing on politics, but those rules dont seem to apply to former Major League Baseball player Curt Schilling.
The network confirmed to Vocativ on Monday that it will allow Schilling to return as an analyst on Monday Night Baseball this season.
Earlier this month, while a guest on 610 Sports radio in Kansas City, Schilling went on an extended rant about Hillary Clinton, saying he would be stunned and upset if Clinton got to the general election before going to prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/curt-schilling-returns-to-espn_us_56f30e96e4b02c402f665be0
Former award winning pitcher, now award winning jerk.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Good one
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I can't recall reading a post from any DUer suggesting that.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I think he cost the Rhode Island taxpayers millions of dollars over his gaming business that went bad. The state loaned him 75 million and issued bonds to cover it.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)Happens every goddamned day.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Everyone knows he's a wingnut. He's been discussed seriously as a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire.
ESPN's position is clear -- sorta.
- There's ESPN the TV and internet network. If Shill makes those comments on Baseball Tonight or during a game broadcast or on Sports Center, he's suspended or canned. That part is really clear.
- ESPN is also ESPN Radio -- and again, if he makes those comments on Mike & Mike, he's probably in trouble. However, ESPN Radio personality Dan LeBatard just editorialized heavily against the President's visit to Cuba, so the rules may not apply as strictly, or ESPN figures that LeBatard's perspective (as a Cuban American) is interesting.
- Then there are a bunch of local ESPN Radio affiliates that carry ESPN content and also carry locally originated programming. The rules here get very blurry. These are not ESPN enterprises, but independently owned stations with an affiliation agreement. Is Shilling speaking as an ESPN employee, or as an individual with 1st Amendment Rights? I think ESPN maintains that he is an employee, but probably does not wan to test this theory in court.