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Curt Schilling had a great response to vulgar tweets about his daughter

By Stanford Crissey

Aug 2, 2013; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Phillies wall of fame inductee Curt Schilling is introduced during the 2013 Philadelphia Phillies wall of fame induction ceremony prior to playing the Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park. The Braves defeated the Phillies 6-4. Mandatory Credit: Howard Smith-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 2, 2013; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Phillies wall of fame inductee Curt Schilling is introduced during the 2013 Philadelphia Phillies wall of fame induction ceremony prior to playing the Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park. The Braves defeated the Phillies 6-4. Mandatory Credit: Howard Smith-USA TODAY Sports /
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Someone got fired for awful tweets about Curt Schilling’s daughter

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Curt Schilling says a lot things, and plenty of them aren’t really worth listening to. But whatever you think of Schilling, his recent response to some social media nastiness is really worth reading.

The former star pitcher tweeted about his daughter, proud that she had an offer to play college softball. It was a nice, fatherly tweet; the last thing he probably expected were the vulgar, sexually explicit responses that followed, the worst of which mentioned rape.

Schilling took to his blog to respond to the appalling tweets, writing in part:

"I have to ask, is this even remotely ok? In ANY world? At ANY time?Worse yet? No less than 7 of the clowns who sent vile or worse tweets are athletes playing college sports.I knew every name and school, sport and position, of every one of them in less than an hour. The ones that didn’t play sports were just as easy to locate.I’ve kept every tweet like the ones above.Now again, I was 17, 18, all of those years when stupid was the operative word. But from the day I was born thru today the only time I may have ever uttered ANYTHING remotely close to this was on the field in the middle of a bench clearing brawl.My daughter comes to me beyond upset. She didn’t do anything, she never said anything, yet she’s now receiving personal messages with guys saying things to her, well let’s just say I can’t repeat and I’m getting beyond angry thinking about it…. These boys have yet to understand one of life’s most important lessons. In the real world you get held accountable for the things you say and if you are not careful that can mean some different things."

After being exposed, some of the more vulgar tweeters got their just desserts; one, Sean McDonald, was fired from his job as a part-time ticket seller for the Yankees, while the other, Adam Nagel, has been suspended from college.

Good for Schilling for speaking out against this. People who make appalling comments while hiding behind a keyboard and screen need to be served with the same consequences as they would if they had said it out loud.

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