Curt Schilling has no problem burning bridges.
Schilling, the Hall of Fame-aspiring pitcher with what many see as Hall of Shame opinions, played hardball with former employer ESPN during a radio interview.
In a conversation with the conservative "Breitbart News Patriot Forum" that aired Thursday morning, Schilling said ESPN features "some of the biggest racists in sports commentating."
“Some of the most racist things I’ve ever heard have come out of people that are on the air at ESPN," he said in the clip above.
Schilling was fired by the network last week for sharing an offensive Facebook post to apparently express his support of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use the restroom of their birth gender. He was previously suspended for tweeting about Nazis and Muslim extremists.
“It was apparent to me early on that if you wanted to go off-topic as a sports person you had to go off-topic left, or you were going to get in trouble,” Schilling said on the show.
Asked afterward to elaborate on his comments, Schilling referenced ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith and Tony Kornheiser, Newsday reported.
"You listen to Stephen A. Smith, and Stephen A. Smith was the guy who said that Robert Griffin didn’t play quarterback for the Redskins because he’s black," Schilling told Newsday. "No, Robert Griffin didn’t play quarterback for the Redskins because he [stunk].
" ... Tony Kornheiser compared the Tea Party to ISIS. I don’t know any planet where those are sports topics. But I don’t care. It’s OK. I think those conversations need to happen. But as soon as you go to the flip side, the right side, there are repercussions for not talking about sports."
