ESPN announced Wednesday night that it was firing former World Series champion Curt Schilling from his role as a baseball analyst after he posted several anti-transgender memes to his public Facebook profile.
“ESPN is an inclusive company,” ESPN said in a statement. “Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”
The memes Schilling posted on Monday appeared to support a recent spate of legislation in various states requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with their birth sex. After facing intensive criticism online, Schilling doubled down in a lengthy public blog post calling his detractors people “just dying to be offended.”
After taking a day to assess the impact of his posts, ESPN dismissed Schilling.
Schilling has got the network in hot water before. After sharing a meme comparing Muslims to Nazis last August, he was suspended from hosting duties for the duration of the rest of the baseball season. Back on air in February, he received no reprimand for suggesting that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “should be buried under a jail somewhere.”
This had to happen. He’s flouted ESPN’s directives on political commentary numerous times now, and somehow escaped real punishment.
He can now:
A). Play the victim
B). Set up a Go Fund Me
C). Go on Fox to talk about how his 1st amendment rights were violated
He really didn’t think this through. When it comes to political insight, he’s a lightweight. Hell, I don’t even respect his commentary on baseball.
No one could have predicted this. Not Nostradumus, Condy Rice or the Magic 8 ball.
Is a new role as North Carolina’s Commode Commissioner in his future?
drumpf’s ambassador to the Island of Lesbos??
Schilling: Hopefully Conservative Grift Machine will now give me my due recognition.
I’m smiling. this made me smile.