Schilling

[Edgy MD]

Fired by ESPN for posting too much stupid stuff on social media.

What a dumb reason to go down. Especially for a guy who actually needs a steady paycheck.

[Ceetar]

quite a threshhold of stupid stuff shared too.

[Centerfield]

I am giving serious thought to launching my "How Not To Be a Douchebag Consultants Ltd." business.

[Guest cooby classic]

I wouldn't be broken hearted if social media just went away

[Guest d'Kong76]

cooby wrote: I wouldn't be broken hearted if social media just went away

Twitter, #in_particular

[Guest cooby classic]

That would be a good start

[Ceetar]

then it'd take us longer to realize Schilling was a raging hateful asshole and he might still be working.

[Guest cooby classic]

Yeah but the problem is there are people out there that make this shit up and then put it out there for idiots like schilling to reshare

[Guest d'Kong76]

Well, Schilling was kinda douchey before Twitter but whatev...

[Guest cooby classic]

Well yeah. But he i

[smg58]

As abhorrent as I find Schilling's posts to be, I'm more troubled by the fact that expressing a political opinion in a forum not directly connected to work can get somebody fired. I have a lot of Facebook friends who would be in trouble if this became the norm, and while Schilling is more of a public figure than most people, I don't see why that matters. (Keep in mind that the people who "make this shit up and then put it out there for idiots like schilling to reshare" are still, at least presumably, employed.)

[Frayed Knot]

smg58 wrote: ... and while Schilling is more of a public figure than most people, I don't see why that matters.

It's the public figure working for a very public company thing in this case.
That and that this is like the 57th time he's done something along these lines in the last year or three.

[Guest cooby classic]

smg58 wrote: As abhorrent as I find Schilling's posts to be, I'm more troubled by the fact that expressing a political opinion in a forum not directly connected to work can get somebody fired. I have a lot of Facebook friends who would be in trouble if this became the norm, and while Schilling is more of a public figure than most people, I don't see why that matters. (Keep in mind that the people who "make this shit up and then put it out there for idiots like schilling to reshare" are still, at least presumably, employed.)

Sorry my grandson bit me and interrupted my last comment. But this is pretty much where I am going with this. There are so many of these dumb things out there that if you don't 'like and share' you'll go to hell or your grandma will die or you house will fall in a sinkhole or whatever.

And I see friends that I thought were intelligent 'liking and sharing' them.

I searched and found the pic that got him fired and its atrocious. Good thing I don't work or I'd be fired for saying that. Not to mention the fact that personally I don't even know what the hell the picture is trying to tell us. Is it pro trans gender or not?

The transgender people I know, and I'll admit there are very few, at least are attractive and we're both before and after.

[Guest d'Kong76]

When ya work for Michael Mouse & Co ya gotta keep it rated G.
(I don't really know what Schilling said, I haven't read anything on it yet)

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: smg58 wrote: ... and while Schilling is more of a public figure than most people, I don't see why that matters. It's the public figure working for a very public company thing in this case. That and that this is like the 57th time he's done something along these lines in the last year or three.

right, it's not so much that he's saying/sharing abhorrent things, it's that people, the customers, want no part of him. ESPNs barely cares since we're forced to pay them anyway, but he'd doubled down so many times that there was literally no value to ESPN to keep him.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think idiots like Schilling (and Trump) use the twit to advance their personal brand purposefully absent of whether the shit they say is valid or not because saying dumb shit wins eyeballs and a more feverent strain of support from a smaller but more loyal group of moron worshippers, while courting controversy as a means to get still more attention and pass oneself off as aggrieved. That's a wellspring of attention in and of itself.

I'm sure he doesn't believe in half the shit he posts.

I'm also sure he bathes in money and doesn't need the ESPN gig.

[Guest d'Kong76]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm also sure he bathes in money and doesn't need the ESPN gig.

Unless his accountants are douches too he should have enough to burn.
bbrdotcom says he made over $114,000,000 throwing a baseball.

[Guest themetfairy]

cooby wrote: There are so many of these dumb things out there that if you don't 'like and share' you'll go to hell or your grandma will die or you house will fall in a sinkhole or whatever. And I see friends that I thought were intelligent 'liking and sharing' them.

That is a huge peeve of mine - I absolutely hate that stupidity.

Or the one where someone posts something, you reply to it, and they send you a "gotcha - you fell into a trap. Now you have to post one of these statuses as your own." No I don't. And I lose a lot of respect for anyone who tries to pull that shit.

[Guest cooby classic]

Agreed.

By the way I hope you all know I am not defending schilling here. Just griping that social media has become nothing more than sharing other people's thoughts and crap creations

[Guest cooby classic]

Agreed.

By the way I hope you all know I am not defending schilling here. Just griping that social media has become nothing more than sharing other people's thoughts and crap creations

[Edgy MD]

d'Kong76 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm also sure he bathes in money and doesn't need the ESPN gig. Unless his accountants are douches too he should have enough to burn. bbrdotcom says he made over $114,000,000 throwing a baseball.

Well, he's endured some massive lawsuits, though how they've played themselves out is beyond my ken.

Schilling was previously on the other side of this when he called out Twitter users who made hateful posts about his daughter, outing them by name, leading to at least two of them getting punished — one losing a job (with the Yankees), and another being suspended from school.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, he's endured some massive lawsuits, though how they've played themselves out is beyond my ken.

No idea either.

[TransMonk]

Curt Schilling says he is ‘tapped out’ financially after the failure of his video game company

This article is a few years old, but I'd bet he still needed whatever ESPN was giving him.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Yeah, I kinda remember this now. Phwam.

[Guest cooby classic]

The point about the picture in question is not that it is someone you would not want in the ladies restroom, it's someone you'd avoid period.

Caitlin Jenner, fine. Deranged old guys with hooker clothes on, no.

Or as someone so famously called them on mofo 'hootchie cloths'

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Curt Schilling says he is ‘tapped out’ financially after the failure of his video game company This article is a few years old, but I'd bet he still needed whatever ESPN was giving him.

maybe, but he did get like 50 million in investments for that company if I recall.

social media is what you put into it. Though the random people talking politics has pushed into my carefully selected timelines and filters so that's taking some work. Like anything else in life, it's got it's pluses and minuses.

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[Lefty Specialist]

Schilling's been a jerk for a while now, so this isn't a surprise. He kind of invites it. I'm guessing after an appropriate period of time he'll wind up on Fox Sports.

[ashie62]

Schilling lost investor, personal and taxpayer (Rhode Island) money.

Why do public figures impale themselves on social media? With great power comes responsibility.

[Ceetar]

Ashie62 wrote: Schilling lost investor, personal and taxpayer (Rhode Island) money. Why do public figures impale themselves on social media? With great power comes responsibility.

Because they think they're better than us, smarter, more informed. And they never used to get called out on it. It was harder to fact check and when that became easier it still wasn't that easy to mass-distribute the fact, instantly, that the public figure is full of it.

[Edgy MD]

There's something more, though. There's something of the adrenaline junkie's desire to flirt with his own self-destruction in there.