ESPN Puts Keith Law In Twitter Timeout For Wanting To Hit Curt Schilling With A Live Monkey
By Josh Hill
ESPN’s Keith Law knows his baseball but he also knows about evolution which is something that his employer has silenced him on Twitter over.
Curt Schilling is a World Series hero but he’s not a anthropological professor, something that was made abundantly clear the other week on Twitter. The former Boston Red Sox pitcher got into an argument with Twitter users — and science — when he viciously defended creationism and denied that evolution either happened or happened the way we all think it did.
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That’s not the meat of the story though, as things didn’t get truly interesting until ESPN insider Keith Law jumped in and defended evolution against his colleague. ESPN hasn’t had the best track history in picking the right side when it comes to disputes with employees, so guess who’s side they took in the Evolution Twitter debate of 2014.
According to Deadspin, Law has been suspended by ESPN, as the analyst won’t be able to tweet things for a while. Basically, those books you read in high school about evolution can end up getting you put in Twitter timeout if you ever work for ESPN.
"Heavy-tweetin’ ESPN baseball writer Keith Law has been noticeably silent for the last couple of days. That’s no coincidence—he’s been given a Twitter timeout by ESPN, and we’re told that it’s for loudly and repeatedly defending Charles Darwin from transitional fossil Curt Schilling, his Bristol colleague."
If you’re wondering which tweet got Law put in Twitter timeout, it’s probably this one:
The cardinal sin here: supporting your facts by linking to Wikipedia. Or, it could have been this one:
Law is in hot water here for basically threatens to hit Schilling with a live monkey — which a lot of people actually want to do.
Either way, ESPN has once again come off looking like tools for suspending the wrong guy — or suspending someone in a situation that required no disciplinary action whatsoever.
Perhaps a lesson in science, though.
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