--- title: Curt Schilling, Fired by ESPN, Is No Stranger to Controversy description: The former Red Sox pitcher's outspokenness has landed him in trouble on social media in the past canonical: https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-21T04:24:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:55:17.751Z article:section: Sports og:title: Curt Schilling Is No Stranger to Social-Media Controversy og:description: The former Red Sox pitcher's outspokenness has been an issue in the past og:url: https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafa5c82b565a4e64/6988902c524fc01b0cdf7ae4/gettyimages-150007065.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Minnesota Twins v Boston Red Sox og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Curt Schilling Is No Stranger to Social-Media Controversy twitter:description: The former Red Sox pitcher's outspokenness has been an issue in the past twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafa5c82b565a4e64/6988902c524fc01b0cdf7ae4/gettyimages-150007065.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ESPN Fired Curt Schilling Over a Facebook Post, but He's No Stranger to Online Controversy > Sponsored content. 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This is not the first time the 49-year-old former Boston Red Sox star, known for his outspokenness both during and after his playing career, has been at the center of social-media controversy. Here are a few past instances: **1\. Creationism** In November 2014, he took to Twitter to [argue](http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2014/11/13/curt-schilling-evolution-twitter) in favor of creationism against evolution, sparking a prolonged, often unsavory debate with several Twitter users that lasted over four hours. One of the most notable participants in the debate — on the proevolution, anti-Schilling side — was an ESPN colleague, baseball writer Keith Law, whose Twitter account was [suspended](http://deadspin.com/espn-suspends-keith-law-from-twitter-for-defending-evol-1661836868) soon after the argument. ESPN [denied](http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/espn-reportedly-suspends-keith-law-twitter-argument.html) it had anything to do with Law’s absence from Twitter, which lasted a week. Schilling’s account was not suspended. **2\. Muslims** In August 2015, however, ESPN [barred](http://time.com/4010430/espn-curt-schilling-nazi-meme/) Schilling from coverage of the Little League World Series after he tweeted an image that compared Muslims to Nazis. “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. how’d that go?” read the tweet, posted alongside an image of Hitler. Schilling deleted the tweet and tendered an unconditional apology soon after, calling it “a bad decision in every way on my part.” > [](https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/636262473826463744) **3\. Getting Trolled** Earlier that year, in February_,_ the former MLB pro found himself at the receiving end of online abuse following a tweet about his teenage daughter Gabby. Schilling’s congratulatory tweet on his 17-year-old daughter’s college acceptance, and her entry into its softball team, was seized upon by Twitter trolls, who posted vulgar responses alluding to rape and assault. Schilling fought back hard, naming and shaming several of the offenders on his blog. At least two of them, including a part-time ticket seller for the New York Yankees, [lost their jobs](http://time.com/3730410/yankees-worker-fired-tweets-schilling-daughter/) as a result. “These boys have yet to understand one of life’s most important lessons,” he wrote on his blog. “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.” Schilling’s penchant for wars of words stretches back beyond the social-media era as well. He has publicly feuded with everyone from [fellow players](http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2865297), to the [management](http://web.archive.org/web/20071015225522/http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/5178) of the teams he was playing for, to, of course, members of the [media](http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/27/102704%5Fschilling/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/"},"headline":"ESPN Fired Curt Schilling Over a Facebook Post, but He's No Stranger to Online Controversy","datePublished":"2016-04-21T04:24:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:55:17.751Z","description":"The former Red Sox pitcher's outspokenness has landed him in trouble in the past","url":"https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/","keywords":["Baseball","Social Media","facebook","twitter","Evolution","Nazis","ESPN","Transgender","controversy","Daughter","fired"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafa5c82b565a4e64/6988902c524fc01b0cdf7ae4/gettyimages-150007065.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafa5c82b565a4e64/6988902c524fc01b0cdf7ae4/gettyimages-150007065.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Minnesota Twins v Boston Red Sox","caption":"Minnesota Twins v Boston Red Sox","creditText":"Jared Wickerham—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4302776/curt-schilling-social-media-controversy-espn-fired/","name":"ESPN Fired Curt Schilling Over a Facebook Post, but He's No Stranger to Online Controversy"}}]}] ```