Espns Curt Schilling Criticized Again After Post About Transgender

ESPN fired baseball analyst Short Schilling Midweek over his recent anti-transgender comments.

"ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his comport was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated," the sports network said in a statement to TheWrap.

The move comes after the three-time World Series winner and "Monday Night Baseball game"analyst posted a meme on Facebook Tuesday mocking transgender women.

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The post, which has since been deleted, was captioned: "A man is a man no matter what they phone call themselves. I don't care what they are, who they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so much. Now yous need laws telling united states differently? Pathetic."

When the offensive meme sparked an outcry on social media, Schilling responded with a lengthy response on his weblog, doubling down on his actions by addressing "all of you lot out in that location who are simply dying to be offended so you lot can create some sort of faux cause to rally behind.

"Let's brand one thing clear right up front end. If you lot go offended by Anything in this post, that's your fault, all yours. And for yous people likewise dumbo to understand this one very important thing. My opinion, 100% mine, and just mine. I don't represent anyone just myself hither, on facebook, on twitter, anywhere," said the and then-ESPN staffer.

"The meme the earth decided to rally behind that I posted months ago. The meme that some of yous clowns and more of you spineless looking to be offended folks turned into something information technology was not. Every one of you gutless cowards, when 'calling me out' or calling me a racist, every one of you left out the simply word in that entire meme that mattered," he continued.

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"See here'south the thing. I do Non care what colour you are, what race, what sex, who you slumber with, what you lot wear. I don't care and I never have. I accept opinions, but they're just that, opinions. And opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they usually stink," Schilling wrote, adding law-breaking to the offense.

"Yous know how I know y'all 'offended' people are full of crap? Because I'thou not even close to whatsoever of the things you lot so desperately want me to be, then you can whine."

The anti-transgender comments were the latest in a series of missteps by the former Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies bullpen.

In March, he aired his grievances over Hillary Clinton'due south use of a private estimator server to send classified data, telling Kansas Urban center's 610 sports radio listeners that the presidential candidate "should be buried nether a jail somewhere." ESPN investigated the matter every bit the visitor had previously sent a memo to its employees urging them non to comment on the presidential race.

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After joining ESPN in April 2010, Schilling was removed from the network's baseball coverage last season following a controversial tweet fabricated in August 2015 comparing Muslims to Nazis and was replaced past MLB annotator Jessica Mendoza.

Schilling had tweeted a photo of Adolf Hitler and the words: "It'due south said simply v-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?" He accompanied the motion picture with the explanation, "The math is staggering when you get to the true #southward."

"Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no fashion represents our visitor'southward perspective," the sports network said in a statement at the time.

Schilling, 49, later on issued a formal apology on Twitter, writing, "I understand and accept my interruption. 100% my fault. Bad choices take bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part."

He had returned to the network this baseball season, merely as a "Monday Night Baseball game" annotator, as opposed to the coveted Sun dark spot.

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