Former Red Sox pitcher and Massachusetts resident Curt Schilling will be back in the broadcast studio for the baseball playoffs after having been suspended for an inflammatory tweet referencing Nazis, ESPN announced Monday.
Advertisement
But even as Schilling announces his impending return to the ESPN airwaves, though, commentators continue to attack him for his social media posts.
ESPN suspended Schilling at the end of August for posting a graphic to Twitter that identified five to ten percent of Muslims as extremists and then noted that only 7 percent of Germans in 1940 identified as Nazis.
We were wondering if ESPN has anything to say about Curt Schilling continuing to post political memes on his Facebook page.
Schilling was benched this month from telecasts for the rest of the regular season and the wild-card game on October. 6.in the wake of an anti-Muslim tweet he made.
Regardless of how you feel about the nature of his comments, it’s undeniably a bad decision by Schilling to continually air these thoughts in the public forum when his employer has made it very clear that it’s not in line with their corporate policy.
Schilling later sent an email to a sports-media site about his Twitter post, causing a further uproar. “I try to explain to people that I don’t”.
Advertisement
Schilling, who has been treated for mouth cancer, is a three-time World Series champion with Arizona and the Red Sox.
