Stick A Bloody Sock In It: ESPN Fires Sox Icon Curt Schilling

By Marc Torrence

Boston Red Sox icon Curt Schilling's days of posting and sharing offensive memes to his personal Facebook page are over, at least as an ESPN employee.

The Worldwide Leader decided that his latest share — a tasteless insult aimed at transgender people and the bathrooms they use — was the last straw and fired him Wednesday.

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

See the post in question below:

Dear God, Curt Schilling. pic.twitter.com/GEEs5Q2Ppj

— Brandon Benson (@bensonbrandon10) April 19, 2016

Schilling, now formerly an analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, shared the post in an apparent response to the national conversation of bathroom use for transgender people.

"A man is a man no matter what they call themselves," Schilling wrote in a follow-up post. "I don't care what they are, who they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis , women's not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."

OutSports, SB Nation's LGBT blog, called for Schilling's firing in a post titled, "This is ESPN's Curt Schilling's disgusting view of transgender people."

The Sporting News said that "ESPN should have fired Curt Schilling a long time ago."

It's not hard to see why.

Schilling has quite the track record of trying to disguise ignorance as opinion.

In August, he posted a picture to Twitter of Hitler with the caption, "It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?”

In a radio interview last month he said that Hillary Clinton "should be buried under a jail somewhere."

We could keep going, but you can check out the rest of his greatest hits on immigration, ISIS and more here.

It's surprising that it took ESPN — who, in January, sent a memo to its staff telling them to avoid political commentary, largely in response to Schilling's antics — this long to pull the plug.

But Schilling is likely to land on his feet sooner rather than later. Fox, for example, has been hiring outspoken personalities and owns World Series broadcast rights.

And if that doesn't work out, hey, Donald Trump still needs a running mate.

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