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Curt Schilling exposes Twitter trolls after receiving vulgar messages about his daughter
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is firing back at cyberbullies who posted offensive comments about his daughter on Twitter after he congratulated her for being accepted into Salve Regina University.
Schilling’s daughter, Gabby, will begin playing softball there next year. But a message that Schilling posted drew vulgar and sexually-explicit comments about his daughter from several people.
In his blog, 38 Pitches, Schilling wrote “tweets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely fathom began to follow.
"I was a jock my whole life. I played sports my whole life. Baseball since I was 5 until I retired at 41. I know clubhouses. I lived in a dorm. I get it. Guys will be guys. Guys will say dumb crap, often,” Schilling said. “But I can’t ever remember, drunk, in a clubhouse, with best friends, with anyone, ever speaking like this to someone…”
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is firing back at cyberbullies who posted offensive comments about his daughter on Twitter after he congratulated her for being accepted into Salve Regina University.
Schilling’s daughter, Gabby, will begin playing softball there next year. But a message that Schilling posted drew vulgar and sexually-explicit comments about his daughter from several people.
In his blog, 38 Pitches, Schilling wrote “tweets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely fathom began to follow.
"I was a jock my whole life. I played sports my whole life. Baseball since I was 5 until I retired at 41. I know clubhouses. I lived in a dorm. I get it. Guys will be guys. Guys will say dumb crap, often,” Schilling said. “But I can’t ever remember, drunk, in a clubhouse, with best friends, with anyone, ever speaking like this to someone…”
This kind of thing is totally unacceptable. This is the problem with social media: Pseudo-anonymity makes these clowns think they're Superman, while they sit in the dungeons high-fiving themselves for their latest "clever tweet" or post because no one else wants to hang around them in person. Good for Schilling! If more parents took this attitude instead of hying off to court and trying to get monetary gain out of incidents like this, the trolls would eventually realize playing with other people's lives ain't cool!