Ridiculous. ESPN is suspending Schilling for the rest of the MLB season over the same tweet, but because of a new uproar or something:
YAHOO NEWS – Schilling, the ex-MLB star and current ESPN broadcaster, was punished again by the network Thursday. He’ll be benched for the rest of the MLB season — taken off Sunday Night Baseball and nixed from wild-card game coverage.
At issue is an Aug. 25 tweet that Schilling sent that featured a meme comparing Muslim extremists to Nazis. Schilling quickly deleted the tweet and apologized, but ESPN still took him off that week’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast.
Things could have ended there. ESPN was reportedly giving Schilling the green light to return this week. But then Schilling made headlines again, after he sent an email to sports media site Awful Announcing, ripping one of its writers. In that letter, which the site made public, Schilling said he apologized that he tweeted the meme but not for the content of the tweet. Awful Announcing then wrote an open letter to Schilling. Then Schilling retorted. ESPN, meanwhile, said it wasn’t “aware of Curt’s plan to craft or send this email,” which is essentially code for “Ah, man, not this again.”
Now, it’s obvious that ESPN is fed up with the Schilling sideshow. For now at least. ESPN issued this statement about Schilling and his status for the rest of the season. The network didn’t use the word “suspension,” but that’s what this is.
The first suspension was stupid, and this one is dumber.
They are probably upset because Schilling admits he doesn’t apologize for the content of the tweet. So once again, being conservative is a no-go at ESPN.