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Curt Schilling fired by ESPN
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Schilling posted a rather unflattering pic of a transgender person. ESPN finally had enough of Schilling's "non-sports" comments and they toasted him.
Gee Curt, are you ever gonna learn?
Gee Curt, are you ever gonna learn?
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Wonder if these incidents will sway HOF writers to not vote for him for the HOF. This one and the previous one that got him suspended before from ESPN.
Umm no
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
Curt is a great guy who has morals and believes in free speech.
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
Yet you lambaste Aaron for speaking freely about his racial experiences?
That's rich, lol..
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Curt is a great guy who has morals and believes in free speech.
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
Yet you lambaste Aaron for speaking freely about his racial experiences?
That's rich, lol..
Apples and oranges. Curt isn't a racist but yet you give Aaron a pass.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
Curt is a great guy who has morals and believes in free speech.
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
Yet you lambaste Aaron for speaking freely about his racial experiences?
That's rich, lol..
Apples and oranges. Curt isn't a racist but yet you give Aaron a pass.
What Shilling has spewed over the past couple of years is far more offensive than anything Aaron said, which was based on personal experience in dealing with intolerant individuals like Shilling in the first place. Your assessment is rather ironic, if not unexpected, lol..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Curt is a great guy who has morals and believes in free speech.
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
Yet you lambaste Aaron for speaking freely about his racial experiences?
That's rich, lol..
Apples and oranges. Curt isn't a racist but yet you give Aaron a pass.
What Shilling has spewed over the past couple of years is far more offensive than anything Aaron said, which was based on personal experience in dealing with intolerant individuals like Shilling in the first place. Your assessment is rather ironic, if not unexpected, lol..
Offensive maybe in your opinion. Curt just says what most other people with morals think. Sorry your parents didn't teach you any.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
Curt is a great guy who has morals and believes in free speech.
ESecPN has been a joke for many years now.
Yet you lambaste Aaron for speaking freely about his racial experiences?
That's rich, lol..
Apples and oranges. Curt isn't a racist but yet you give Aaron a pass.
He's an idiot. The end.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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I agree Garnett, curt is just vocalizing what many think but are afraid to say because of the negative comments of all those tolerant people out there.
The guy is flat broke. They guy just lost his job ( and the best one he could of ever hoped for) because he is popping off on social media on a subject that no one asked him about. He was just running his mouth like he always does. He is an irresponsible idiot.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
That said, ESPN was totally within their rights to fire him- even though it seems a tad hypocritical seeing how they employed a total jag like Keith Olbermann for years.
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Still, Curt not being in the HOF even though he's the Mr. October of pitching is a major joke.
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Curt was good in the booth but his ego was a problem .
When people are famous sometimes they think their opinions interest the world. They don't though , the man is great pitcher and knows a lot about the game .
I don't ask my doctor how to make out a will , I wouldn't ask a baseball pitcher who to vote for. I won't be asking any actresses if vaccines are safe either.
Social media causes a lot of thoughts to be spoken that should remain unspoken. Believe what you want to believe but keep it to yourself. No one cares so why share?
Curt was good in the booth but his ego was a problem .
When people are famous sometimes they think their opinions interest the world. They don't though , the man is great pitcher and knows a lot about the game .
I don't ask my doctor how to make out a will , I wouldn't ask a baseball pitcher who to vote for. I won't be asking any actresses if vaccines are safe either.
Social media causes a lot of thoughts to be spoken that should remain unspoken. Believe what you want to believe but keep it to yourself. No one cares so why share?
Well said.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
By Ben Forer, ABC news, 6-22-12
Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, said in an interview today with WEEI-FM that he lost more than $50 million on his video game company 38 Studios.
"I'm tapped out," he told the Boston radio station. "The money that I had earned and saved in baseball was all gone. ... I put everything in my name in this company. I believed in it. ... But I'm not asking for sympathy. That was my choice."
Schilling, who said he never took a salary from 38 Studios, explained to ABC News his business philosophy prior to the release of the company's first game in February.
"I'm 46 years old, I've never worked an honest day in my life. ... I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life," said the avid video game player. "I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball. ... I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset."
38 Studios filed for bankruptcy protection on June 7, nearly 300 employees lost their jobs. Following the bankruptcy Schilling took a leave from his position as an analyst for ESPN; he hopes to return to that job soon.
While Schilling says he and his leadership team are responsible for the failure of the company, he insists it is not entirely their fault.
Rhode Island lured the company away from Massachusetts to Providence by offering a $75 million loan guarantee in 2010. Schilling believes Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who campaigned against the loan guarantee when he was running for office, never wanted to see the company succeed.
"After Governor Chafee went into office ... he had made a public comment that he was against the deal before he got elected, but now that he was in the office he was going to do everything he could do to help this company succeed. And that absolutely, unequivocally never happened in any possible way," Schilling said on WEEI-FM. "I think he had an agenda and executed it."
Last month, Chafee raised questions about the company's solvency and Schilling said those comments hurt 38 Studios' ability to land private investments. Schilling also alleged the company had found an investor who was willing to invest $15 to $20 million to keep it afloat, but Chafee's decision not to take action allowed the deal to fall through.
Chafee spokeswoman Christine Hunsinger said today that the governor had been 38 Studios' "biggest cheerleader."
As state and federal investigators look at the company's finances, the state is trying to determine how much money it will lose after the company's disintegration. Citizens Bank is suing Schilling to recover $2.4 million in loans it made to the company.
"I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect," Schilling said. "We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart."
Schilling was a top pitcher in the major leagues from 1988 to 2007 for teams including the Red Sox, Phillies and Diamondbacks. His win-loss record was 216-146 and his ERA was 3.46.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.