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Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling hurled some high, hard ones at his former employer appearing on “Breitbart News Patriot Forum” on Sirius XM. Schilling described the climate behind the scenes at the sports network for anyone who may be right of center, politically: “We had the green room in ESPN. One of the things I got early on, people would walk up to me--I had people come up to me whispering, ‘Hey, I’m with ya. I’m a Republican, too.’ It was like a deadly serious thing, like, we didn’t talk… like religion on the...

BOSTON — Former Red Sox pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling has been fired from his position as an analyst for ESPN following comments he made on social media earlier this week regarding the bills going through several states to require people to use the bathroom of their assigned gender. The bill impacts the transgender community, because many of those individuals prefer to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

Curt Schilling seemed surprised yesterday by the sudden groundswell of local supporters hoping to draft him into national politics and a 2008 Senate run against John Kerry. The Red Sox [team stats] pitching hero didn’t flatly rule out the idea, either, though he didn’t sound like he was about to hit the campaign trail anytime soon. “I couldn’t rule it out because it’s not something I ever thought about in a serious capacity,” Schilling told the Herald. “I envision that I will probably be pretty busy in 2008,” he said. “But I’m flattered as hell to even make this phone...

(snip) Before the Democratic National Convention, when Kerry threw out the first pitch of a Sox-Yankees game, Schilling yelled "Go Bush" to political reporters who were still in the Red Sox locker room after Kerry had departed. (snip)

Just a headline so far -- did anyone see Schilling urge viewers to vote for Bush? Damn, I missed it.