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Curt Schilling will not appear on ESPN baseball broadcasts the rest of the season

By Jack Crosby

Dec 9, 2013; Orlando, FL, USA; ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling talks during the MLB Winter Meetings at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Schilling is joining ESPN
Dec 9, 2013; Orlando, FL, USA; ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling talks during the MLB Winter Meetings at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Schilling is joining ESPN /
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Curt Schilling, as some expected, will not be seeing anymore time in the ESPN broadcast booth for the rest of the season

The ongoing saga between the bosses at ESPN and Curt Schilling has taken yet another turn. However, this one is a pretty big turn.

Originally under suspension, the network announced via a press release on Thursday that the former star Major League pitcher will be taking the rest of the season off from his broadcasting duties. Basically, Schilling will not be making an appearance on the network for what’s left of the baseball season.

"At all times during the course of their engagement with us, our commentators are directly linked to ESPN and are the face of our brand. We are a sports media company. Curt’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. As a result, he will not appear on ESPN through the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game."

That was the brief statement released by ESPN on Thursday night which, again, is a move that a lot of people saw coming.

For those that might not know by now, Schilling was suspended by the network during the Little League World Series. While he was on assignment with the network for the annual baseball event, he retweeted a tweet that very much compared Muslims to the Nazi party of World War II fame. People immediately picked up on the blunder, and of course, it wasn’t long before ESPN caught wind of it. Not long after that, they dropped the suspension on him, a suspension that he did fully accept for his actions.

So, for the rest of 2015, Curt Schilling will not be making his way back into the ESPN broadcast booth for baseball games. Now, we have to see whether or not he ends up coming back at all after this.

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