In one of the great injustices in modern sports history, the Boston Red Sox decided <a href="https://weei.radio.com/blogs/kyle-daluz/curt-schilling-left-out-red-sox-game-2-world-series-pregame-ceremonies?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">not to invite</a> the most heroic member of their iconic 2004 World Series champions to join his teammates to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 1 of the World Series Tuesday night.
In the midst of the famed 2004 American League Championship Series in which the Red Sox executed the unprecedented feat of coming back from a 3-0 series deficit to finally knock off their perennial tormentors, the New York Yankees, Curt Schilling underwent a kind of surgery on his ankle which had never been performed before, then came back to win Game 6 in Yankee Stadium in spectacular fashion. The famed scene of blood oozing from Schilling&#8217;s ankle through his sock while he pitched is etched in the minds of everyone who saw that game.
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Nevertheless, the Red Sox declined to offer an invitation to join his teammates despite the fact that Schilling lives locally and would not have to be flown in for the occasion.
David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Keith Foulke and Alan Embree were invited. A team executive told <a href="https://twitter.com/Dan_Shaughnessy/status/1055202499362205696">The Boston Globe&#8217;s Dan Shaughnessy</a>, &#8220;We did not reach out to [Schilling], but it is not out of spite.&#8221;
Schilling has, in recent years, become a conservative talk-radio host, and has made no bones about his support for President Trump, or expressing his blunt opinions to forward his conservative views. He was asked if the Red Sox even asked him to participate:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gehrig38?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gehrig38</a> Did the Red Sox even ask you if you wanted to be part of the first pitch ceremonies tonight? If I remember correctly you were a pretty big part of that team
&#8212; Johnny 5 (@johnkos1980) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnkos1980/status/1055230732736610304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Schilling gave a gracious response:
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Nope. No worries though, great to see <a href="https://twitter.com/45PedroMartinez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@45PedroMartinez</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/davidortiz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidortiz</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/KMillar15?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KMillar15</a> &#8220;The pimper of walks&#8221; though. Oh and I get to keep my 3 rings and 3 trophies, so it&#8217;s all good. <a href="https://t.co/tyUUWhvTPe">https://t.co/tyUUWhvTPe</a>
&#8212; Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) <a href="https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/1055231143186964481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Red Sox owner John Henry gave $283,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1998, $300,000 to the DCCC and DSCC in 2000, $100,000 to the DSCC in 2002, and $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp in 2004, according to <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2016/03/01/boston-sports-owners-political-contributions/">Boston Magazine</a>.
Lest it be forgotten, here&#8217;s how heroic Schilling was in 2004. He had hurt his right ankle in Game One of the American League Division Series against the Anaheim Angels; Red Sox physician Dr. William Morgan described the injury as &#8220;a subluxation, or a tear, on one of the tendons in his ankle, the sheath that houses the tendons themselves, so the tendon is now snapping over the bone.&#8221;
Schilling started Game One of the League Championship Series against the Yankees, but it was obvious he was hurting; he barely reached 90 mph on his fastball, as he could hardly bear weight on his ankle. Before Game Three, Schilling tried to wear special high-cut spikes from Reebok to hold the tendon in place; they didn&#8217;t work.
Morgan, in desperation, came up with an idea that had never been tried before: suture the skin around the dislocated tendon to hold the tendon in place. The sutures went all the way to the deep tissue.
But, as author Mike Vaccaro noted in what is possibly the best book ever written about baseball, &#8220;Emperors and Idiots,&#8221; as the operation had never been done before, Morgan first experimented by performing the surgery on a cadaver&#8217;s leg. Then it was on to Schilling, before Game 5.
As Vaccaro writes, &#8220;Morgan worked as rapidly as he could. Several sutures were threaded through skin and tissue beneath the skin and placed between the groove and the loose tendon. This created a tiny wall of flesh that kept the tendon in place, about two centimeters outside the groove.&#8221;
Schilling then pitched Game 6, bloody sock and all, with the Red Sox trailing three games to two, in Yankee Stadium. He was brilliant, throwing 99 blistering pitches, only allowing one run in the seventh inning when Bernie Williams hit a home run.
Schilling likely risked his career that night in order to carry his team, through sheer force of will, to victory, setting up their historic seventh-game victory the next night before they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.
And the Red Sox refused to honor him and let him join his teammates.

OUTRAGEOUS: Red Sox Don’t Invite 2004 Hero Curt Schilling To Join His Teammates And Throw Out First Ball At World Series

Boston Red Sox

Curt Schilling

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling responded to ESPN and Disney&#8217;s handling of host Jemele Hill&#8217;s Twitter rant in which she accused President Trump, his White House and many of his supporters of being &#8220;white supremacists.&#8221; Schilling, who was fired for posting an &#8220;anti-transgender&#8221; meme, smacked ESPN and its parent company for its double standard.
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t get fired &#8216;cau[s]e [D]isney and ESPN are fine w/liberal racism vs conservative logic,&#8221; Schilling tweeted Wednesday.
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anyone asking. She didn&#8217;t get fired &#8216;cauee disney and ESPN are fine w/liberal racism vs conservative logic. Only naysayers to that are liars
&#8212; Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) <a href="https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/907816834459684870">September 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Schilling was responding to a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20992/no-espn-shouldnt-fire-jemele-hill-they-shouldnt-ben-shapiro">series of tweets</a> posted by Hill on the anniversary of 9/11 that accuse Trump of being a white supremacist and having &#8220;largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.&#8221; The only reason he was elected, she suggested, is widespread racism. Ignoring Trump&#8217;s alleged white supremacy, she added, is the &#8220;height of white privilege.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the text of Hill&#8217;s tweets (which she has not deleted) in paragraph form:
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Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists. The height of white privilege is being able to ignore his white supremacy, because it&#8217;s of no threat to you. Well, it&#8217;s a threat to me. Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period. He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected
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Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
&#8212; Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/907391978194849793">September 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The height of white privilege is being able to ignorehis white supremacy, because it&#8217;s of no threat to you. Well, it&#8217;s a threat to me.
&#8212; Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/907392229290934272">September 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.
&#8212; Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/907392882155425793">September 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected
&#8212; Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/907393929087262720">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In response to the inflammatory posts, ESPN&#8217;s parent company, Disney, simply issued a vague statement distancing itself from the &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; comments but saying that the situation was dealt with internally. In other words, she would not be significantly disciplined like conservatives Schilling or Linda Cohn.
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ESPN Statement on Jemele Hill: <a href="https://t.co/3kfexjx9zQ">pic.twitter.com/3kfexjx9zQ</a>
&#8212; ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/907683111693164545">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro noted, ESPN&#8217;s response to Hill&#8217;s comments contrasts with its recent response to Cohn. When Cohn criticized ESPN&#8217;s obsessive focus on politics, she was reportedly suspended:
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Sources: After Linda Cohn spoke out on politics <a href="https://twitter.com/espn">@ESPN</a> she was told by prez John Skipper not to come to work &amp; to think about what she said.
&#8212; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/907763158026260480">September 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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So <a href="https://twitter.com/espn">@espn</a> suspended Linda Cohn for saying ESPN was talking too much politics. Didn&#8217;t suspend Jemele Hill for saying Trump was a racist.
&#8212; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/907763640484356096">September 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Schilling has been outspoken in his criticism of ESPN since he was <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5144/schilling-just-got-fired-being-conservative-here-ben-shapiro">fired</a> in April 2016 for posting the following meme at the height of the transgender bathroom debate:
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&#8220;A man is a man no matter what they call themselves,&#8221; Schilling added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care what they are, who they sleep with, men&#8217;s room was designed for the penis, women&#8217;s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.&#8221;
That didn&#8217;t go over so well at the strongly pro-LGBT Disney and ESPN. He was quickly fired.
Another former ESPN employee who was reportedly fired for her political views is Britt McHenry, who says she was axed simply for being a Trump supporter and openly conservative.
While some on the Right are <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/21023/huckabee-sanders-espn-should-fire-jemele-hill-ben-shapiro">calling for Hill to be fired</a>, others are defending her &#8212; and Cohn, Schilling, Mike Ditka, Chris Broussard, and the others fired or disciplined for espousing political views ESPN and Disney don&#8217;t like. Here&#8217;s how <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20992/no-espn-shouldnt-fire-jemele-hill-they-shouldnt-ben-shapiro">Shapiro</a> puts it:
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Some on the Right, angry with Hill, have called for her suspension or firing. That would be understandable for business reasons &#8212; ESPN would have every right to take the position that Hill had alienated half of their audience, and thereby undercut their revenue model. But on principle grounds, Hill shouldn&#8217;t lose her job: she&#8217;s a sports anchor who sounded off on politics, and she&#8217;s been given a mandate by the brass to talk politics in precisely the way she did. Other ESPN hosts have spoken out in similar fashion. She and her equally uninspiring co-host, Michael Smith, speak politically routinely, which is one of the reasons their show is nearly unwatchable.
Which means that the same should hold true for Cohn. Cohn hasn&#8217;t been nearly as political on television. She has kept her opinions largely to herself, other than speaking out in interviews on ESPN&#8217;s increasing politicization. If ESPN is willing to let Hill off the hook, it should certainly leave Cohn alone.
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Curt Schilling Smacks ESPN Over Jemele Hill Rant: ESPN ‘Fine With Liberal Racism’

Disney

ESPN

Media Bias

Race

Racism

Transgender

White Supremacy

The chances for clutch pitcher Curt Schilling to reach the Baseball Hall of Fame seem to be dwindling, and it is apparent that much of the reason has to do with Schilling&#8217;s outspokenness regarding his political views, and seemingly, one incendiary tweet about journalists.
Schilling won 216 games in his career, not the 300 that almost automatically qualifies for entry to Cooperstown, but his sparkling strikeout-to-walk ratio (<a href="https://sportslistoftheday.com/2014/08/28/mlb-strikeout-to-walk-ratios-of-the-top-20-strikeout-pitchers-of-all-time/">best of all time</a>) and his <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/postseason-dominance-command-make-curt-schilling-a-hall-of-famer/">incredible record</a> in post-season games, including his <a href="http://m.mlb.com/news/article/98978666/curt-schillings-bloody-sock-the-bridge-to-history/">legendary courageous performance</a> pitching on an ankle that was sutured in a way never done before, leaving him pitching as his sock (once <a href="http://www.si.com/mlb/2013/02/23/curt-schilling-bloody-sock-auction">lent</a> to the Hall of Fame) grew bloody, should have been enough to get the job done. 
But Schilling&#8217;s outspoken conservative views, which seemingly were a key factor in his <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/21/heres-the-facebook-post-that-got-curt-schilling-fired-by-espn/">firing</a> by ESPN, have keyed a response to his election to the Hall that seems genuinely hostile. The votes must be cast by December 31. A chief factor for some of the journalists who will vote on a candidate&#8217;s eligibility was Schilling&#8217;s poorly-thought out tweet in response to an incendiary photo. The photo showed a man wearing a T-shirt reading, &#8220;Rope. Tree. Journalist. No assembly required.&#8221; Schilling <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/curt-schilling-loves-this-awesome-t-shirt-calling-for-lynching-journalists/that%20read,">captioned the photo</a>, &#8220;So much awesome here.&#8221;
That was the <a href="http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18326987/controversy-surrounding-curt-schilling-clouds-cooperstown-case-hall-fame-voters%20https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18326987/controversy-surrounding-curt-schilling-clouds-cooperstown-case-hall-fame-voters">final straw</a> for some journalists, who felt Schilling was endorsing the lynching of journalists. Schilling&#8217;s percentage of the needed 75% of the vote to gain entry to the Hall rose from 39.2% to 52.3% last year, but as ESPN reports, &#8220;Ryan Thibodaux, who runs a popular Hall of Fame tracker that tallies writer votes, has counted 80 writers who have made their ballots public in advance of the Dec. 31 deadline. Among that group, Schilling has picked up four votes from last year while losing 14, for a net difference of minus-10.&#8221;
Thibodaux noted, &#8220;A major step back at this point could be a real candidacy killer. He finally hurdled 50 percent last year and still has six years left (including this year) to make up the rest of the difference. That&#8217;s certainly possible. But a drop back into the low 40s (or worse) makes it that much harder to reach 75 percent within five years.&#8221;
After the firestorm erupted after his tweet, Schilling responded that the tweet was &#8220;100 percent sarcasm &#8230; Every single person that read it KNEW I was mocking. Do I have some sort of hidden passion for lynching in my past?&#8221;
Schilling&#8217;s explanation notwithstanding, some writers used the excuse of Rule 5 of the Baseball Writers Association of America rules for election to buttress their claims that Schilling doesn&#8217;t belong in the Hall. The <a href="http://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/bbwaa-rules-for-election">rule states</a>: &#8220;Voting shall be based upon the player&#8217;s record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played.&#8221;
One voter, Kirby Arnold, stated, &#8220;To me, this falls under Rule 5 of the [Baseball Writers Association of America] rules for election, specifically the reference to integrity and character. I was prepared to vote for Curt again this year but changed my mind after his Twitter comment. Whether or not he meant it as sarcasm didn&#8217;t matter to me. I was disgusted by the fact someone would either endorse the act of lynching or make light of it, and it didn&#8217;t matter to me if it was journalists or any living being.&#8221;
Another voter, Dejan Kovacevic, won&#8217;t vote for Schilling because he viewed his behavior &#8220;especially in recent years, represents the antithesis of the character clause that the Hall and BBWAA continue to instruct voters to honor.&#8221;
Yet as ESPN notes:
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Schilling won the Roberto Clemente Award, Branch Rickey Award, Hutch Award, Sporting News Good Guy of the Year award, Lou Gehrig Award, Babe Ruth Award, Worth Magazine&#8217;s Young Benefactor of the Year award and the designation of &#8220;Most Caring Athlete&#8221; from USA Today. He was also a tireless advocate for veterans&#8217; causes and a champion in the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease.
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But other writers <a href="http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18326815/which-hall-fame-voters-tip-their-caps-curt-schilling">see the character issue differently</a>; Bruce Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle said, &#8220;I never consider the &#8220;character clause&#8221; because I think it&#8217;s a farce and should be eliminated, given all the roguish behavior within the Hall.&#8221; Jeff Passan of Yahoo.com echoed,
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A Hall of Fame voter&#8217;s job is to assess what a player did over the course of his career, weigh it and render an opinion based on performance. Personally, I disregard the character clause because I think it&#8217;s presumptuous to believe we truly know these men well enough to render judgment on them personally &#8212; and because the number of reprehensible human beings already in the Hall of Fame renders the clause&#8217;s existence positively inert.
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&#8220;I sleep fine. My three World Series rings, trophies and 20-some years of amazing memories are all mine, and always will be.&#8221;
Curt Schilling
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John Tomase of WEEI added, &#8220;We may reside at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but bottom line is he&#8217;s the best postseason pitcher in history, he&#8217;s got the best strikeout-to-walk in history, and the other stats some see as falling short I see as good enough. The Steroids Era has also convinced me the character clause has got to go. Either put a player on the ballot or don&#8217;t; stop demanding we legislate the game&#8217;s morality. In any event, to bring this back to the Big Schill, I&#8217;ll vote for him until he&#8217;s not on the ballot anymore, no matter how many memes he posts or delicate sensibilities he offends.&#8221;
Schilling responded to the attacks on him by saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s how it works when you give weak people power. They want to &#8216;hold it over me&#8217; or something like that? Please. An arbitrary process done by some of the most vindictive and spiteful humans I&#8217;ve ever known? One I stopped having control over nine years ago? I sleep fine. My three World Series rings, trophies and 20-some years of amazing memories are all mine, and always will be.&#8221;

Will  Curt Schilling Miss The Hall of Fame Because He’s Conservative?

Journalism

On Thursday, Curt Schilling, appearing on Fox Business today with Trish Regan, defended Donald Trump&#8217;s statement in which Trump bragged he would be dating a pre-teen girl 10 years hence.
Schilling started by saying to Regan:
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The conversations you&#8217;re having about the things he said about the ten-year-old girl to me is at the very heart of why this is a problem. How many times, I have three boys and a daughter, how many times have you looked at a young man and said &#8220;Wow, he&#8217;s a beautiful young man. Wow, he&#8217;s a gorgeous young man. And that man was 12, 13, 14,15 &#8211;&#8220;
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&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest, Curt,&#8221; Regan answered, holding up her thumb and index finger to make a circle, &#8220;Zero.&#8221;
Schilling, dismissively, &#8220;See, you know, that&#8217;s a lie. There&#8217;s no way you haven&#8217;t seen somebody else&#8217;s son and said, &#8216;Wow, he&#8217;s beautiful.&#8217;&#8221;
Regan, stunned: &#8220;And thought I&#8217;d be dating him, in ten &#8212;? No. You&#8217;re on your own on this one.&#8221;
Schilling, stubbornly: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not on my own on this one. You know, I have boys, my youngest son is a gorgeous young man, and I&#8217;ve heard women say ,&#8221;Wow, he&#8217;s a beautiful young boy. To jump to the point where you&#8217;re insinuating something like pedophilia or molestation is where you&#8217;re going with this, because he&#8217;s joking about, &#8216;When she gets older, I&#8217;m gonna date her.&#8217; How do you get to there to being revolting and disgusting?&#8221;
Regan replied, &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t look at a young boy and say, &#8220;In ten years, I&#8217;m gonna date &#8216;em. I just don&#8217;t. I think that would be pretty sad if I did.&#8221;
Schilling: &#8220;Well, I mean, I think it says more about you than it does about him.&#8221;
Regan: &#8220;You tell me you see a ten-year-old girl and think okay, I&#8217;m gonna date her in ten years?&#8221;
Schilling, insistently: &#8220;No, no. I have a daughter, my daughter has friends. I&#8217;ve seen my daughter&#8217;s friends, I&#8217;m a man&#8212;&#8220;wow she&#8217;s a beautiful young lady. I don&#8217;t immediately jump to molesting her. But that&#8217;s where the left has gotten &#8211;&#8221;
Regan: &#8220;Do you need to follow that up with, &#8216;She&#8217;s a beautiful young lady, a cute little girl,&#8217; do you need to follow it up with &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna date her in ten years&#8217;?&#8221;
Schilling: &#8220;Trish, I&#8217;m not going to ask you how old you are, but I&#8217;m guessing in your years of life you&#8217;ve gone on and gone over the edge and said things, &#8216;You know, I probably shouldn&#8217;t have added that.&#8217; I know you&#8217;re not running for president &#8211;&#8221;
Regan: &#8220;I&#8217;ll give you that; he has a tendency to do that, Curt. A lot. All right? A lot. The question that people are having &#8211; and this is his vulnerability, Curt &#8211; because this is where Hillary Clinton is able to exploit this wedge, here. Because she&#8217;s saying, &#8220;He says a lot of crazy stuff. Do you really want someone who says this kind of crazy stuff being the president of the United States?&#8221;
Schilling: &#8220;I&#8217;ll respond to that with this: It&#8217;s a very simple answer: Do you want someone who talks in a way that makes you uncomfortable and has said things that you think are despicable or reprehensible, which you know she has, or do you want someone who has actually done those things, from Benghazi to Haiti to the Clinton Foundation to Juanita Broaddrick and the women her husband insulted, raped, molested or whatever you want to call them; and then she helped defend their lies. He&#8217;s not a politician.&#8221;
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Curt Schilling Defends Trump, But It’s Pretty Awkward

Donald Trump

In the least shocking news ever, on the heels of firing baseball all-star Curt Shilling for his conservative views, ESPN, or &#8220;MSNBC with footballs,&#8221; hired former U.S. Women&#8217;s soccer star, LGBT activist and Hillary Clinton surrogate Abby Wambach. 
Just what sports fans everywhere have been craving! Another Leftist pushing an agenda via media. 
Oh, side note: Ms. Wambach, 35, was just <a href="http://equalizersoccer.com/2016/04/03/abby-wambach-arrested-duii-driving-influence-uswnt/">busted for a DUI</a> back in April; she subsequently admitted to previously using cocaine and marijuana. But at least she isn&#8217;t conservative.
&#8220;The former U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team star will contribute to the company&#8217;s existing entities, such as &#8216;Outside the Lines,&#8217; while also starring in a new podcast titled, &#8216;Fearless Conversation with Abby Wambach,'&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/05/04/soccer-star-abby-wambach-strikes-deal-with-espn-to-be-analyst-and-podcast-host/">The Washington Post.</a> &#8220;Wambach released a statement to Sports Illustrated about the career move, crediting her soccer career for allowing her to extend her stay in the sport beyond her time on the pitch.&#8221;
&#8220;My soccer career has provided me with a lot of different experiences that brings more than Xs and Os to the table,&#8221; said Wambach. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to join ESPN and to have the opportunity to tell stories that transcend soccer.&#8221;
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Side note: Ms. Wambach, 35, was just busted for a DUI back in April

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Wambach is, of course, welcomed by ESPN with open arms. Her LGBT activism won&#8217;t stop her from obtaining a position with the company. She has a right to voice her own views and opinions, right?
Clearly, this sentiment is conditioned. Case in point: Curt Shilling. The baseball pitcher dared to side with biology over the Leftist thought police and state that &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5144/schilling-just-got-fired-being-conservative-here-ben-shapiro">a man is a man no matter what</a>.&#8221; He was subsequently fired.

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For baseball fans, the performance of Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in the 2004 American League Championships ranks among the most memorable gutsy plotlines of all time.
The Red Sox, fighting a World Series winless streak dating back to 1918, were down three games to none to their archrival, the New York Yankees. The Sox then won two straight games. In the crucial Game Six, Schilling was slated to start, despite a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle that required medical staff to literally suture his tendon to deeper tissue. He proceeded to throw seven innings, giving up just one run, and giving us the immoral image of blood seeping through his sock as he dragged his team to victory.
ESPN created a &#8220;30 for 30&#8221; documentary on the series titled &#8220;Four Days In October.&#8221; The original documentary ran one hour and five minutes, and included a 17-minute segment focusing on Schilling&#8217;s heroics.
When ESPN re-aired the documentary this week, however, the 17-minute Schilling segment was simply cut.
Why?
Two weeks ago, Schilling posted on Facebook that men who believe they&#8217;re women shouldn&#8217;t use the women&#8217;s bathroom. He shared a meme with a rather hideous gentleman in a skirt, and a leather top with cutouts for his man boobs and stomach, wearing a blonde wig. The caption: &#8220;LET HIM IN! To the restroom with your daughter or else you&#8217;re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!&#8221; Schilling added: &#8220;A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don&#8217;t care what they are, who they sleep with, men&#8217;s room was designed for the penis, women&#8217;s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.&#8221;
This logic is, of course, inarguable. But it led ESPN to fire him nonetheless, stating: &#8220;ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.&#8221;
By inclusive, ESPN does not mean ideologically inclusive. They simply mean that if you do not kowtow to politically correct idiocies about men magically becoming women, you will not be tolerated. ESPN is the same channel that rewarded Caitlyn Jenner, nee Bruce, the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for getting a misguided boob job, facial reconstruction surgeries and hormone treatments that will not solve his underlying mental illness. Pointing out that Caitlyn is still a man, however, will get you fired from that same network.
Not only that, but you will be memory-holed. Any person can be wiped from history with a Hillary Clinton-esque cloth at any time if he or she violates the prevailing leftist orthodoxy. Mike Tyson can still star in multiple &#8220;30 for 30&#8221; episodes after being convicted of rape. But Schilling must be excised from one of the most crucial sporting series in baseball history because he thinks men with penises are still men.
Every area of American life has now been transformed into an enforcement mechanism for leftist groupthink. Entertainment. Education. Even sports.
Conservatives spend all their time and energy focusing on elections. But the real battles are fought in the cultural space, on supposedly minor issues like the employment of All-Star and borderline-hall-of-famer Curt Schilling. If conservatives fail to realize that, elections are only the beginning of their losing streak.
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The Left’s Thought-Fascism Hits ESPN

ESPN, which now is more interested in promoting a politically correct agenda rather than showing true athletic heroism, has apparently cut out the legendary performance in 2004&#8217;s ALCS when Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling pitched with a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle, bleeding through his sock, from the network&#8217;s &#8220;30 for 30&#8243; documentary about the iconic comeback the Red Sox staged against the New York Yankees. The bloody sock now resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Schilling was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/04/20/espn-fires-curt-schilling-for-unacceptable-conduct/">recently fired by ESPN</a> for commenting on the North Carolina law banning transgendered individuals from using the bathroom of their choice. He had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/04/20/espn-fires-curt-schilling-for-unacceptable-conduct/?tid=a_inl">written</a>, &#8220;A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don&#8217;t care what they are, who they sleep with, men&#8217;s room was designed for the penis, women&#8217;s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.&#8221;
On Sunday, ESPN aired &#8220;Four Days in October,&#8221; its 2010 documentary about the Red Sox historic comeback from a 3-0 deficit, the first time in baseball history a team had ever achieved the feat in the playoffs or World series. When Schilling found out that his performance somehow went missing in the broadcast, he tweeted, &#8220; &#8230; now omitting about 4 hours of a game I think I played in. Hmm <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/integritymuch?src=hash">&#8234;#integritymuch</a>?&#8221;
In the original 65 minute documentary, Game 6 took up roughly 17 minutes; it was cut, according to ESPN, to fit into an hour-long time slot, with commercials.
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&#8220;now omitting about 4 hours of a game I think I played in. Hmm &#8234;#integritymuch?&#8221;
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An ESPN spokesman told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/05/01/curt-schilling-not-happy-bloody-sock-game-cut-from-red-sox-yankees-30-for-30/">The Washington Post</a>, &#8220;When a live event runs long, it&#8217;s standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows. In this case, we needed to edit out one of the film&#8217;s four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game.&#8221;
Schilling posted a picture of his 2004 ring that was inscribed &#8220;Greatest Comeback in Baseball History&#8221;, commenting, &#8220;For sale, never used, rarely worn ring from player who didn&#8217;t actually have anything to do with getting it.&#8221;

ESPN Just Proved They’re Leftist Hacks In The Worst Possible Way

On Wednesday, former All-Star pitcher and World Series hero Curt Schilling was fired from ESPN for committing the grave thoughtcrime of suggesting that men should not be able to pee next to small girls. Here was the Facebook post that got him fired:
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Schilling added, &#8220;A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don&#8217;t care what they are, who they sleep with, men&#8217;s room was designed for the penis, women&#8217;s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.&#8221;
ESPN then fired Schilling, announcing, &#8220;ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.&#8221;
Asked about the controversy on local radio, Schilling explained, &#8220;To be in a place where people actually believe I&#8217;m a racist or I&#8217;m transphobic says to me that something has gone horribly askew somewhere.&#8221;
This wasn&#8217;t the first time Schilling felt the heat from ESPN for his political views. He got slammed for retweeting a graphic that read, &#8220;It&#8217;s said only 5%-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How&#8217;d that go?&#8221; Schilling added, &#8220;The math is staggering when you get to true #&#8217;s.&#8221; This was too much for ESPN, which had to step in to defend ISIS, and promptly suspended him from broadcast.
Schilling made the horrible mistake of speaking truth in a place where only leftist falsehood is tolerated &#8211; which is why I call ESPN MSNBC with spherical objects. Here are 5 people still working with ESPN who haven&#8217;t been canned:
1. Tony Kornheiser. Kornheiser still co-hosts his leftist propaganda sports program Pardon The Interruption with fellow approved opinionsayer Michael Wilbon, despite the fact that in October, he compared the Tea Party to ISIS &#8211; on ESPN Radio. Speaking with Huffington Post&#8217;s Howard Fineman, Kornheiser said of Tea Partiers in Congress, &#8220;Are they like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here?!&#8221; No problem. Kornheiser was suspended for two weeks back in 2010 for ripping an outfit worn by Hannah Storm: &#8220;She&#8217;s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school paid skirt&#8230;way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now. She&#8217;s got on her typically very, very tight shirt.&#8221;
2. Kevin Blackistone. Professor Blackistone regularly appears on ESPN; in 2013, he called the National Anthem a &#8220;war anthem&#8221; and ripped the &#8220;military symbolism embraced in sports,&#8221; explaining that it was &#8220;time for people to back away.&#8221; Blackistone stated, &#8220;You are conflating a war anthem with a simple game. And when you have military flyovers and all the other military symbolism that goes on in sports, I think, you&#8217;ve got a problem.&#8221;
3. Lou Holtz. Speaking about <a href="http://deadspin.com/5065391/lou-holtz-might-be-taking-some-time-off">then-Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez</a>, Holtz stated, &#8220;Ya know, Hitler was a good leader too.&#8221; No suspension. So, to be clear, comparing radical Muslims to Nazis is a no-no, but comparing a college coach to Hitler is a-okay.
4. Stephen A. Smith. Smith spoke about former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice beating his then-girlfriend, <a href="http://deadline.com/2014/07/espn-suspends-stephen-a-smith-domestic-violence-abuse-comments-812001/">and stated</a>, &#8220;We also have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation. Not that there&#8217;s real provocation, but the elements of provocation, you got to make sure that you address them, because we&#8217;ve got to do is do what we can to try to prevent the situation from happening in any way. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s broached enough, is all I&#8217;m saying. No point of blame.&#8221; He was suspended for one week. Schilling suggesting that women be protected from men invading their restrooms, however, was a fireable offense.
5. Max Kellerman. In the <a href="http://thebiglead.com/2014/08/09/max-kellerman-reportedly-suspended-after-comments-on-ray-rice-domestic-violence/">aftermath of the same incident</a>, Kellerman told a charming story about how when he was dating his now-wife, they were both drunk; she slapped him, and he slapped her back. That carried a short suspension. Kellerman is now back on the air regularly.
None of these people committed the ultimate crime: stating that men and women are biologically different and should pee in different places. ESPN, of course, also stumps for more coverage of women&#8217;s sports, which suggests a question: why not simply open up all women&#8217;s sports to men, in the name of equality for people of all genders? Or wouldn&#8217;t that comply with the logically incoherent leftist positional chart?
And so Schilling is gone, and leftism continues to force its way into every nook and cranny of our lives. Now you can&#8217;t even watch a baseball game without hearing about transgender propaganda. No wonder the culture has fragmented.

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Schilling Just Got Fired For Being Conservative. Here Are 5 ESPN Personalities Who Said Insane Stuff But Weren’t Fired.

Three-time World Series champ Curt Schilling is known for not holding back when it comes to his passionate point of view, particularly when it comes to politics. 
On Tuesday, the six-time MLB all-star went on the Kansas City radio show <a href="http://media.610sports.com/a/113821259/03-01-3pm-hud-s-hot-stove-with-curt-schilling.htm?q=schilling" target="_blank">The Drive</a> and opened up about where he thinks this country&#8217;s headed and how terrible Hillary Clinton is.
In his spirited answer to the hosts, Schilling said the U.S. has &#8220;never been worse off domestically and abroad&#8221; and that he wants &#8220;somebody to sit in the Oval Office again that I trust.&#8221;
On the subject of Clinton, the World Series MVP said, &#8220;If she&#8217;s allowed to get to the general election before she&#8217;s in prison, I&#8217;ll be stunned and upset,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I hope she does [go to prison]. If I&#8217;m gonna believe, and I don&#8217;t have any reason not to believe, that she gave classified information on hundreds if not thousands of emails on a public server after what happened to General Petraeus, she should buried under a jail somewhere.&#8221;
Click below for Schilling&#8217;s rant starting at the 28 minute mark&#8230;
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The former pitcher&#8217;s statements may have him in hot water again with ESPN, which employs him as a commentator. The company has already stated that that personalities should &#8220;refrain from political editorializing.&#8221; The Boston Herald reports that with regard to this interview, the network said, &#8220;We are addressing it.&#8221;
Schilling was in trouble with his ESPN bosses last August after he tweeted a meme comparing extremist Muslims to Nazis&#8230;
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&#8220;ESPN suspended Schilling soon afterward for the remainder of baseball&#8217;s regular season and throughout the postseason.
&#8220;Curt&#8217;s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations, nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company,&#8221; ESPN said at the time.
He had been a part of ESPN&#8217;s main &#8220;Sunday Night Baseball&#8221; announcing booth, however, following the Nazi meme he was moved to the less prestigious Monday night crew.&#8221;
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 Schilling last tweeted about politics on Sunday:
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&#8220;buy&#8221; an election because there&#8217;s this belief if you run an ad enough, no matter how false, you can make people believe it. People need to
&#8212; Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) <a href="https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/704133548656218114">February 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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get back to thinking and doing for themselves. Certainly myself included
&#8212; Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) <a href="https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/704133631808245760">February 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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