The former baseball analyst was fired after he posted yet another controversial meme on his Facebook account. He had shared a lot of his controversial views on social media and in interviews, and after a while the Worldwide Leader decided enough was enough and cut ties with him.
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“The only irony in all of this for me is that a company that is outwardly bigoted and intolerant is calling itself inclusive,” Schilling said. “I’m sad that it ended because of the people I worked with. But, other than that, I guess it was kind of meant to be.”
He then went on to explain why he felt ESPN was not being inclusive.
He spoke at length about the firing, going on for more than seven minutes. He said he was only fired for things “people thought I said, or things people perceived I was.” Essentially he feels like the images he shared on his social media accounts don’t reflect him.
The other piece that really jumped out at me was, people would talk, you know the green room where everybody hangs out. It’s the ESPN version of the locker room. A lot of times people would be like, they would come up to me and whisper, ‘Hey man, I’m with ya, I’m a Republican,’ as if we were the secret card-carrying members of some group that couldn’t be, that ’those who shall not be named.’ The inclusiveness is inclusive as long as you are pointing in the same direction."
Schilling also revealed he made $2.5 million while at ESPN.
