Curt Schilling’s Red Sox teammates are thrilled the homophobic hurler won’t be attending World Series reunion
bloody sock. A World Series hero, Schilling was revered in Boston. For the longest time, his legendary performances in the clutch outweighed any issues fans may have had with his right-wing politics.
But then, Schilling became further removed from his playing career, and increasingly hateful. He got fired from a cushy gig as ESPN’s lead MLB analyst in 2016, when he shared a transphobic Facebook post supporting North Carolina’s anti-trans “bathroom bill.”Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.The post showed a burly man in ripped women’s clothing with the following 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!”The three-time World Series champ added his own commentary as well. “A man is a man no matter what they call themselves.
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,” he wrote. Intelligent stuff, right? Schilling, for his part, said he found the outrage “hilarious.”ESPN did not, however.
