NEW YORK (AA): A television sports channel removed former baseball great Curt Schilling from its broadcast after he tweeted a message that equated Muslims to Nazis.
“Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective,” the ESPN network said in a statement.
“We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League World Series assignment pending further consideration,” it added.
Schilling on Tuesday posted a photo of Adolf Hitler on Twitter that read: “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?”
Above the photo, he wrote: “The math is staggering when you get to true #s”).”
The tweet was later deleted.
“I understand and accept my suspension. 100% my fault. Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part”, Schilling said on Twitter.
