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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:09 pm    Post subject: ESPN fires Curt Schiling after anti-transgender post

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"ESPN is an inclusive company," said the network in a statement on Wednesday. "Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”

The 49-year-old once again found himself in hot water on Tuesday after he shared a anti-transgender meme over Facebook, which he later deleted.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:16 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:23 pm    Post subject:

For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:38 pm    Post subject:

the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:43 pm    Post subject:

Should have been fired years ago, honestly it took too long.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:45 pm    Post subject:

But, but, but, free speech!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:46 pm    Post subject:

This is less of a surprise and more of a "what took so long?".
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:52 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Schilling

I'm not advocating name profiling, but this guy's middle name really says it all ...

It's like his parents murdered the selection chair of the Douchecanoe Club, immediately checked for a pulse, performed a series of exhaustive resuscitation attempts, and then stabbed him right in the neck anyway. Also, when someone like Schilling boards that cuckoo-for-cocoapuffs BAC train, he deserves all of the ridicule and scorn any of us can manage to muster ... at least other true believers like Buck Williams, David Robinson, and Tebow don't make a regular practice of (bleep)-over investors and employees like Gordon (bleep) Gekko.

(bleep) this guy ...
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:02 pm    Post subject:

Remarkable that he could post that on a public forum. It's like Lewis Black says, it's one thing to THINK it...but to actually write it down or verbalize it for all to see or hear? When you work for a company as visible as ESPN? And after you already were suspended for comments last year?

What a great big-game pitcher he was, and I'm glad he got past his cancer ordeal, but he's a first-class jerk.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:02 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.


Just because he played baseball doesn't mean he had any business sense. He blew thru a huge amount his own personal fortune because he wanted to create a game......
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:05 pm    Post subject:

Omar Little wrote:
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I agree, he could have been fired earlier even for other stupid comments. The guy is a crackpot I fear.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:13 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:15 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.


Politicians playing venture capitalists to a former baseball player forming a video game start-up. What could possibly go wrong?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:20 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.


Politicians playing venture capitalists to a former baseball player forming a video game start-up. What could possibly go wrong?


The game was pretty decent though.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:44 pm    Post subject:

He ran the company like a rookie.

His CEO was recruited from Comcast, a defacto monopoly, and unsurprisingly they ran the company together as if they had a never-ending cash flow. They recruited a development team, paying top dollar with relocation expenses, and even making mortgage down payments. They were trying to develop a multi-player fantasy game, which are horrifically expensive and risky to develop under well-laid plans, but then 38 Studios management and development teams seemingly couldn't agree upon a project final deliverable, let alone milestones and a timeline. Without a project plan, they just burnt through cash.

But that wasn't enough. They just HAD to use funds and management resources on an acquisition. They acquired another gaming company, which unsurprisingly bled them further.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:56 pm    Post subject:

City_Dawg wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.


Politicians playing venture capitalists to a former baseball player forming a video game start-up. What could possibly go wrong?


The game was pretty decent though.


Lol yeah, I actually played it through . No conceivable way it should have burned through that budget though.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:03 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
City_Dawg wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.


Politicians playing venture capitalists to a former baseball player forming a video game start-up. What could possibly go wrong?


The game was pretty decent though.


Lol yeah, I actually played it through . No conceivable way it should have burned through even a fraction of that budget though.


Grown ups costed 80 million dollars.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:05 pm    Post subject:

Number 7 wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
City_Dawg wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
the association wrote:
For someone known for his heroics on the mound, this guy sure is a cowardly, ignorant waste of protoplasm in civilian life.


At least he's a great businessman full of humility and thoughts of his employees first.

http://fortune.com/2012/06/15/4-lessons-from-curt-schillings-38-studios-fiasco/

(bleep) this guy.



The idiotic politicians in Rhode Island forked over $75 million or so to his 38 Studios, and of course lost it all. Considering that there are roughly 1 million HHs in RI, that comes out to $75/household. That has to sting.


Politicians playing venture capitalists to a former baseball player forming a video game start-up. What could possibly go wrong?


The game was pretty decent though.


Lol yeah, I actually played it through . No conceivable way it should have burned through even a fraction of that budget though.


Grown ups costed 80 million dollars.


Not really sure what an Adam Sandler movie has to do with it. Been in the industry, have friends at EP and SP positions at Activision and several developers and the #'s they gave for World of Warcraft for example was a shade over 60M. That's the biggest Western MMO of all time with Blizzard level CGI's, and dozens of servers at launch. In more recent times, arguably the greatest single player rpg in the Witcher 3 cost 46M and has a graphics engine that's a Mclaren F1 to Kingdom of Amalur's Yugo.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 7:42 pm    Post subject:

Shame that one of the great postseason pitchers of all time is just a sad joke as a human being.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:46 pm    Post subject:

Seems like the type.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:15 am    Post subject:

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Shame that one of the great postseason pitchers of all time is just a sad joke as a human being.


Try and look at it the other way around. A pathetic human being happens to have a great pitching arm. These people aren't gods. It's just sports. Even they have to realize this at one point.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:46 am    Post subject:

Eh. A pretty sizable percentage of the American public agrees with him. In fact, the lastest polling data shows that a slim majority agrees with him. There's a PC issue at work here, but this time I'm not so sure that the left is going to win the culture war.

From ESPN's perspective, though, this doesn't matter. They don't want their analysts to be controversial for reasons unrelated to sports. Schilling knew that. He just couldn't keep his mouth shut on social media. I've seen the same sorts of memes flying around on Facebook (both about transgender and about the Muslim/Nazi analogy). If you're Joe Blow on Facebook, you can post that stuff all you want. If you're an ESPN commentator, you should know better. Schilling apparently lacks self restraint.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:25 am    Post subject:

he will be on FOX news in no time.....
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:26 pm    Post subject:

Legacy wrote:
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Shame that one of the great postseason pitchers of all time is just a sad joke as a human being.


Try and look at it the other way around. A pathetic human being happens to have a great pitching arm. These people aren't gods. It's just sports. Even they have to realize this at one point.


I agree I kind of see where "The Grind" is coming from figures someone with this great talent would be like this. Proving you really can't have it all.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:21 pm    Post subject:

Just to be clear, the controversy here is that people think that transgender males with intact male genitalia should be allowed to use girls' restrooms, whereas Schilling doesn't, right?
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