ESPN baseball analyst and former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling has been thrown from a Little League World Series broadcast for an "unacceptable" message posted to social media Tuesday.
According to the New York Times, the former Red Sox star likened Muslim extremism to Nazi Germany in a message on Twitter, prompting ESPN to pull him from the broadcast.
Schilling posted a photo of Adolph Hitler on Twitter with the writing, "It’s said only 5-10 percent of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?"
He accompanied the meme with his own text, "The math is staggering when you get to true #’s." Schilling deleted the tweet shortly after posting it.
In a statement Tuesday, ESPN labeled the tweet "completely unacceptable," pulling Schilling from the broadcast and leaving the door ajar for further punishment.
"Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration," ESPN said.
Schilling, who is a member of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast, immediately took responsibility for the tweet and accepted the punishment.
"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 wrote on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.