Curt Schilling suspended by ESPN after controversial tweet

[IDemo]

Source: CNN

Curt Schilling, a star pitcher who was in the Major Leagues for 20 years and a baseball analyst for ESPN, was suspended from his Little League World Series duty after sending a controversial tweet Tuesday.

The tweet re-posted a meme that reads: "It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"

The text was superimposed of a red-tinted photo of Adolf Hitler.

Schilling added, "The math is staggering when you get to true #'s."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/us/curt-schilling-insensitive-tweet/index.html

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Juuuust a little outside.

[iandhr]

1. This Yankees fan is smiling

[Drum]

19. Ditto! n/t

[KatyMan]

25. Him and his damn fake bloody sock...

Although, o/t, this Astros fan is smiling too

[beltanefauve]

27. Heck, I'm a Red Sox fan

and I'm smiling too.

[nichomachus]

28. So is this Red Sox fan

Never liked the Shill-Man. Never. What a phony.

[Fred Sanders]

2. A Trump supporter who wants to put a yellow star on Mexicans and Muslims....and deny the racism by illogical comparisons.

[Javaman]

3. it's been long known that schilling is a right wing nut job...

I guess we can add racist to that now as well.

[Psephos]

18. "Muslim" isn't a race. n/t

[Javaman]

23. good point. Bigot. nt

[Tansy_Gold]

4. I can't imagine any other sportscaster . . .

. . . would want to be in the booth with this asshole.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/25/espn-analyst-curt-schillings-worst-facebook-pos/205146

[Chakab]

12. Good grief. I knew he was a wingnut, but I didn't know that he was such a repugnant asshole.

This is one of the most absurd political posts that I've seen this summer, and that's saying something.

[frylock]

15. Schilling's nickname while with the D-backs was "Table for One"

Nobody wants to hang with this dickhead.

[Sherman A1]

5. Excellent!

I have absolutely no respect for Mr. Schilling.

[Hissyspit]

6. Idiot.

[marmar]

7. Once a POS. Always a POS.

[rurallib]

8. will he become the new RW martyr?

hated this guy for a long time, always wonder why anyone would hire him in the media.

[frylock]

9. Has anyone ever watched this hack provide analysis?

I don't understand why they keep him around. He must know somebody, because he brings nothing to the table.

[corkhead]

11. I always attribute undeserved fame and fortune to a "pact with Satan"

It mostly applies to the music industry.

[Tommymac]

21. ESPN Sunday Night Baseball is BORING mainly because of Schilling, Kruk and Shulman

I have turned it off after a few innings just because they are soooooo lame and inane.

Curt should have been fired for ineptitude long ago as he is especially annoying, and Kruk just makes me want to put a fist through the screen he is so obnoxious. Worst part is Schulman actively enables these 2 unlikable clowns with his asinine questions. The producers cut down the crowd noise and they NEVER STFU.


Worst Baseball Broadcast Crew (and production) EVER.

[SwankyXomb]

24. I keep hoping Kruk will eat Schilling

[Tommymac]

29. ROFLMAO

[Android3.14]

10. Seems an extreme response

How is that tweet racist? I've seen similar comparisons on DU for Muslims, Catholics, Republicans, and Evangelicals. Extremists in any group can ruin the image of the rest.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. ^^^This^^^

I can't stand Shilling, but he could have been dumped by ESPN for much more than this. First, he's horrible on camera. Secondly, i firmly believe he's an "uncaught" steroid cheater. Third, he is politically repugnant in ways that don't need a national sport platform.

An extremist is an extermist. Comparing one extremist ass to another is not a big enough deal.

If we never see him again, it's ok by me, but this seems a tempest in a teapot.

[Ikonoklast]

22. Which of those DU'ers are on national tv?

Which DU'ers can kill ad revenue through their posts?

[Sunlei]

13. knew he was bad news when he 'pulled a romney'* with his game business.

*hired many people, moved to a new state, got a LOT of 'free gov. money' because someone made it a law that games were one of 'The Arts'.. then real soon, surprise! pink slipped everyone and the company folded.

[Laxman]

14. Rememeber When Curt Schilling Stole....

$75 million from the State of Rhode Island?

How Curt Schilling Dinged Rhode Island

If you asked me to loan $75 million to a would-be video game entrepreneur with no experience programming computers or running a business, I’d tell you to take a hike. But I’m not a New England sports fan being hit up by Red Sox pitching legend Curt Schilling. That said, even the good people of Massachusetts weren’t willing to go for Schilling’s idea. Instead, the Rhode Island State Legislature ponied up $75 million to Schilling’s 38 Studios, and now that the company’s officially declared bankruptcy, the Ocean State and its residents are left holding the bag.

The company itself started back in 2006, near the end of Schilling’s pitching career. He is by all accounts a genuine video game enthusiast and launched the company as Green Monster Games, renting office space in Maynard, Mass., a former industrial town that’s found a new life as home to Monster.com. The idea was to build massively multiplayer online games (MMPORGS), a genre that Schilling particularly likes, though one that’s been in decline in recent years as a business proposition because of the overwhelming success of World of Warcraft. At the start of spring training in 2007, what would be his final season, Schilling changed the name to 38 Studios.

The company developed slowly until the summer of 2010, when the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation announced it was offering a $75 million loan guarantee to induce 38 Studios to relocate to Providence. The company and about 160 employees opened up their new Providence office in April 2011. On Feb. 7, 2012, their first game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was released to mixed reviews and weak sales.

In the past two months, the company collapsed with stunning speed. 38 Studios missed a $1.12 million payment to the state on May 13. On May 18, the money surfaced and 38 Studios instead missed payments to employees. By May 24, all workers had been laid off. On Thursday, June 7, having failed to attract new investors or a state-government bailout, 38 Studios filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The company has huge debt and essentially no assets of value, leaving the state on the hook for the cost of the loan guarantee.

What a guy!

read the rest here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/_38_studios_and_kingdoms_of_amalur_how_curt_schilling_s_video_game_company_duped_rhode_island_out_of_75_million_.html

[Sunlei]

30. that's it! when he pulled 'the romney play' for 75 million.

Everyone he hired were totally caught by surprise! screwed in a day.

[MisterP]

16. what's his DU handle?

[Darb]

17. He's always been a religio-dick.

He sounds a lot like ISIS.

[Marrah_G]

26. He is a loser, piece of shit and I am a Sox fan

That scumbag piece of shit bilked the people of providence and the state of RI out of millions of dollars.