Curt Schilling continues to rip ESPN after firing

Curt Schilling accuses network of double standards for on air personalities

Former big league ace Curt Schilling may have been fired from ESPN on April 20th, but he has not gone quietly.

Schilling took to the airwaves on Monday to bash his former employer, joining the Dan Patrick show to explain his firing from ESPN, the sports network giant he calls “outwardly ignorant and bigoted.”

Schilling said ESPN sent out memos to on air staffers saying:

"“…we want our sports people on-air talent to stick to sports, and stay away from politics and all the other stuff.’ … The next thing, Stephen A. Smith tells the world Robert Griffin can’t play quarterback for the Redskins because he’s black, not because he sucks, um, which it was because he sucks. Then you got [Dan] Le Batard, and you got, you know, Tony Kornheiser comparing the Tea Party to ISIS. And so, I think the memo meant to say was ‘If you’re not liberal, uh, and you’re not a Democrat, do not stray from sports.’ “"

Schilling was fired after sharing a Facebook post that appeared to respond to the North Carolina law that bars transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not correspond with their birth genders. The shared photo was of a large man dressed as a woman complete with wig and exposed breasts, with the caption “LET HIM IN!…to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die!!!”

Schilling said Republicans at the network are treated “as if we were the secret card-carrying members of some group that couldn’t be, that ‘those who shall not be named.” He went to say that “the inclusiveness [at ESPN] is inclusive as long as you are pointing in the same direction they are.”

The former Red Sox ace said he never was a “measured speaker” and was told he was hired at ESPN because he spoke his opinion “whether it went against the grain or not, and that was the case right up until I started speaking in an opinion they didn’t agree with.”

Shortly after his Facebook post, ESPN released a statement saying the network is “an inclusive company,” and that Schilling had been “advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.” Schilling was suspended for the last month of the 2015 baseball season for a tweet he posted comparing Muslims to Nazis.

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