This is not the first time Curt Schilling’s opinions have gotten him in trouble with ESPN, but it might be the funniest!
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Hillary Clinton had a successful Super Tuesday, moving closer to the Democratic nomination for president. Among the people who won’t be happy about that is Curt Schilling, the outspoken ex-MLB ace, who has shown over the years that unlike many people in sports, he has no problem talking about politics, race and religion. Sometimes even to his own detriment.
Schilling spent a good chunk of his Super Tuesday doing an hour-long radio interview with 610 Sports in Kansas City. If you give Schilling 60 minutes to talk about anything, there’s a good chance something will make someone cringe. Such is a reality of Curt Schilling with a live mic in front of him — or a keyboard, really, since it was his social media use that got him suspended from ESPN at the end of the 2015 season. He doesn’t apologize for it either. He’s actually kind of proud.
That brings us to Tuesday’s interview in which Schilling devoted about eight minutes (starting near the 28-minute mark) to talking about Clinton, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and the various things that scare him for the future of America. The interview, though, was at its most provocative when Schilling railed on Clinton.
If she’s allowed to get to the general election before she’s in prison I’ll be stunned and upset,” Schilling said. “Because I think she’s shown her true colors all along the way and I’ll ask you this: Do you see her being anything even remotely different than what we’ve had?
I don’t care what her titles are,” Schilling continued after host Danny Parkins listed some of Clinton’s credentials. “She’s done nothing. She’s done absolutely nothing to further the success of the middle class. She jumps on the backs of people who she wants to be dependent on government. She needs these people to be dependent on her.
Parkins then asked Schilling whether he thought Clinton should go to jail:
I hope she does. If I’m gonna believe, and I don’t have any reason not to believe, that she gave classified information on hundreds if not thousands of emails on a public server after what happened to General Petraeus, she should be buried under a jail somewhere.
That last part is perhaps the most troubling, as the implication there is she should be buried alive. That’s a strong bit of rhetoric, certainly and you could argue that Schilling is just going overboard to make his point.
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