Life Curt Schilling destroys Twitter trolls attacking his daughter - Page 2

**Bufkin** · 03-02-2015, 12:43 PM

Remind me to never, ever, ever, ever troll Curt Schilling.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...QyXzEEc2VjA3Nj
Here's the essay he wrote
https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015...as-it-changed/

People have called ex-MLB star Curt Schilling a number of things — and they're not always good. But it's hard to deny his tenacity, whether on the mound or in one of the Twitter feuds he often finds himself in.

Sometimes Schilling gets himself in trouble by never backing down, even from the trolliest of trolls. In his most recent Twitter fight, though, Schilling dealt a KO to the out-of-line bros who'd been harassing him about his 17-year-old daughter.

It all started last week when Schilling congratulated his daughter, Gabby, for getting accepted into college and starting a softball career. A dad proud of his daughter ... that's benign enough, right? Well, no. Not in the say-anything-and-apologize-later world of 2015 social media.

What followed was a number of sexually suggestive tweets about Gabby fired off to her dad, some of them even implying rape and other horrible things. (You can see some of the Twitter taunts here, most of it isn't fit to post on The Stew). Schilling's blood boiled, as any father's would, and he jumped in the flame war, ignoring rule No. 1 of the Internet: Don't feed the trolls.

By Sunday, not only had Schilling fed the trolls, but he'd killed them, cooked them and eaten them. He penned a 1,700-word essay about the entire thing titled, "The world we live in…Man has it changed." He teased it on Twitter by saying "There are repercussions to your actions in the real world."

Then, his essay proceeded to balance out-for-blood dad with former pro athlete who knows just how crude guys can be. He called out two Twitter trolls in particular, saying exactly who they were in real life. Both have since deleted their Twitter accounts, the modern-day waving of the white flag. Schilling wrote:

[T]weets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely fathom began to follow. Now let me emphasize again. 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. But I can’t ever remember, drunk, in a clubhouse, with best friends, with anyone, ever speaking like this to someone…
“The Sports Guru”? Ya he’s a DJ named Adam Nagel (DJ is a bit strong since he’s on the air for 1 hour a week) on Brookdale Student Radio at Brookdale Community College. How do you think that place feels about this stud representing their school? You don’t think this isn’t going to be a nice compilation that will show up every single time this idiot is googled the rest of his life? What happens when a potential woman he’s after googles and reads this?
The other clown? He’s VP of the Theta Xi fraternity at Montclair State University. I gotta believe if Theta Xi is cool with a VP of one of their chapters acting like this I’d prefer to have no one I know in it. Also, does anyone attending Montclair State University have a student handbook? If so can you pass it along because I am pretty sure there are about 90 violations in this idiots tweets.
Schilling's essay continued, obviously, at great lengths, even calling out further trolls who challenged him after he published the piece Sunday. You could make the case that Schilling — who works as an analyst for ESPN and recently beat cancer — should just ignore the 140-character miscreants and you wouldn't be altogether wrong. The celebrity in a flame war very often has little to gain, even if he or she dominates like Schilling did here.

As Schilling will most likely tell you right now, this wasn't about him as a celebrity, a baseball player or a cable analyst. This was just a dad defending the honor of his daughter and taking the no-holds-barred approach.

Amnorix · 03-02-2015, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Schilling won this one flawless victory. The fat DJ has been fired and suspended from his school and job. The VP of the frat (no surprise there) has also been expelled. Both schools have also notified local law enforcement.

I truly and honestly find this to be absolutely fantastic. FANTASTIC.

Schilling is a mixed bag of goods, no doubt, but here he is absolutely right. People say things on Twitter that they would NEVER say in person, and for good reason.

kepp · 03-02-2015, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Schilling won this one flawless victory. The fat DJ has been fired and suspended from his school and job. The VP of the frat (no surprise there) has also been expelled. Both schools have also notified local law enforcement.

This current young generation needs to learn that there are consequences to their behavior. I have a nephew that always makes comments about his job(s) on facebook. I've mentioned it to him, but he still does it. It's gonna bite him someday.

stumppy · 03-02-2015, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Schilling won this one flawless victory. The fat DJ has been fired and suspended from his school and job. The VP of the frat (no surprise there) has also been expelled. Both schools have also notified local law enforcement.

Hell Yea !

Pablo · 03-02-2015, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by kepp

This current young generation needs to learn that there are consequences to their behavior. I have a nephew that always makes comments about his job(s) on facebook. I've mentioned it to him, but he still does it. It's gonna bite him someday.

That has more to do with your nephew being a dumbass that airs his dirty laundry over Facebook than anything else.

There are plenty of grown ass adults on social media platforms that like to vent about their life/spouse/work/whatever. Smart people keep those issues to themselves and those people close to them, they don't broadcast them out for any and everyone to see. You see it on here all the time.

Hootie · 03-02-2015, 02:28 PM

Hilarious.

Personally, I am really glad Twitter didn't become relevant until after I was 25.

If I could give any advice to anyone (mostly young men) ... no Twitter until you graduate college.

I still haven't really gotten into Twitter (I realize it's useful and awesome), but man ... I could have gotten into a lot of trouble for a lot of the things I used to say on the Internet. There were a group of 25-50 of us who used to parade around social media boards before Facebook and deplorable things were said.

Not proud of it, but...my God.

Hootie · 03-02-2015, 02:31 PM

Shit, think about the things we say on this board (tongue in cheek) ... stuff about rape, AIDS, 'defeeted teenagers', etc...

In one hand, it's the Internet, get over it. On the other hand, Good God.

listopencil · 03-02-2015, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Schilling won this one flawless victory. The fat DJ has been fired and suspended from his school and job. The VP of the frat (no surprise there) has also been expelled. Both schools have also notified local law enforcement.

**Bufkin** · 03-02-2015, 02:35 PM

I'm a pretty sick mother ****er, but holy shit these guys need to emulate Tom Schweich.

"Teach me your knuckle ball technique so I can shove my fist in your daughter's twat".

"Curt bleeds more from his sock than Gabby does from her pussy when I'm ramming her"

"I heard Pedro has been eating her out. explains why he has long strands of pussy hair on his head."

"Curt, I'm going to **** your daughter in the ass so hard. Don't worry, I never text back the next day"

rico · 03-02-2015, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by PornChief

https://twitter.com/****tyler/status/285670822264307712

Haha... What?!

Hootie · 03-02-2015, 02:36 PM

when I first signed up for Twitter I sent 1 tweet, right away, to Scott Hanson (studio host of NFL RedZone the first year RedZone came out)...

It was something like...

"Dude stop GD blinking all the time I can't stand it it makes RedZone unwatchable!"

(he blinks a lot)

He responded with : "Got it. Less blinks. Thanks!"

...and then I immediately just felt bad and decided I wasn't going to be mean on Twitter anymore!

Ha. I'm glad he responded otherwise my Twitter trolling may have went on for quite some time. At least I know I have a soul, somewhat.

**Bufkin** · 03-02-2015, 02:37 PM

I tweeted Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud and told him he sucks. He tweeted me back telling me I should lose some weight. I think I lost 15 pounds that month.

Twitter is pretty proactive for me.

rico · 03-02-2015, 02:38 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bufkin

I'm a pretty sick mother ****er, but holy shit these guys need to emulate Tom Schweich.

"Teach me your knuckle ball technique so I can shove my fist in your daughter's twat".

"Curt bleeds more from his sock than Gabby does from her pussy when I'm ramming her"

"I heard Pedro has been eating her out. explains why he has long strands of pussy hair on his head."

"Curt, I'm going to **** your daughter in the ass so hard. Don't worry, I never text back the next day"

I wonder how many additional varicose veins pop out of Schilling's nose every time he reads one of these tweets and his blood pressure increases...

Hootie · 03-02-2015, 02:39 PM

I think I've tweeted about 100 tweets in 5 years.

75 of them were @Chiefs or @Royals players congratulating them for something.

20 of them were me going nuts because Showtime Anytime was down for 5 hours during the Homeland finale. I was so mad.

1 of them was to Hanson.

4 of them were to Meatloaf because he won a Larry Fitzgerald autographed football fron ESPN Fantasy Games and I was trying to persuade him to give me the ball because he's ****ing Meatloaf and he doesn't deserve to win everything in life

**wazu** · 03-02-2015, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

I think I've tweeted about 100 tweets in 5 years.

75 of them were @Chiefs or @Royals players congratulating them for something.

20 of them were me going nuts because Showtime Anytime was down for 5 hours during the Homeland finale. I was so mad.

1 of them was to Hanson.

4 of them were to Meatloaf because he won a Larry Fitzgerald autographed football fron ESPN Fantasy Games and I was trying to persuade him to give me the ball because he's ****ing Meatloaf and he doesn't deserve to win everything in life

Sounds like you've made the most of the platform, and your life.

Hootie · 03-02-2015, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by wazu

Sounds like you've made the most of the platform, and your life.

Thanks.

03-02-2015, 12:43 PM
Bufkin Just here for the Royals Join Date: Jul 2014 Casino cash: $10029260	Curt Schilling destroys Twitter trolls attacking his daughter Remind me to never, ever, ever, ever troll Curt Schilling. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...QyXzEEc2VjA3Nj Here's the essay he wrote https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015...as-it-changed/ People have called ex-MLB star Curt Schilling a number of things — and they're not always good. But it's hard to deny his tenacity, whether on the mound or in one of the Twitter feuds he often finds himself in. Sometimes Schilling gets himself in trouble by never backing down, even from the trolliest of trolls. In his most recent Twitter fight, though, Schilling dealt a KO to the out-of-line bros who'd been harassing him about his 17-year-old daughter. It all started last week when Schilling congratulated his daughter, Gabby, for getting accepted into college and starting a softball career. A dad proud of his daughter ... that's benign enough, right? Well, no. Not in the say-anything-and-apologize-later world of 2015 social media. What followed was a number of sexually suggestive tweets about Gabby fired off to her dad, some of them even implying rape and other horrible things. (You can see some of the Twitter taunts here, most of it isn't fit to post on The Stew). Schilling's blood boiled, as any father's would, and he jumped in the flame war, ignoring rule No. 1 of the Internet: Don't feed the trolls. By Sunday, not only had Schilling fed the trolls, but he'd killed them, cooked them and eaten them. He penned a 1,700-word essay about the entire thing titled, "The world we live in…Man has it changed." He teased it on Twitter by saying "There are repercussions to your actions in the real world." Then, his essay proceeded to balance out-for-blood dad with former pro athlete who knows just how crude guys can be. He called out two Twitter trolls in particular, saying exactly who they were in real life. Both have since deleted their Twitter accounts, the modern-day waving of the white flag. Schilling wrote: [T]weets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely fathom began to follow. Now let me emphasize again. 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. But I can’t ever remember, drunk, in a clubhouse, with best friends, with anyone, ever speaking like this to someone… “The Sports Guru”? Ya he’s a DJ named Adam Nagel (DJ is a bit strong since he’s on the air for 1 hour a week) on Brookdale Student Radio at Brookdale Community College. How do you think that place feels about this stud representing their school? You don’t think this isn’t going to be a nice compilation that will show up every single time this idiot is googled the rest of his life? What happens when a potential woman he’s after googles and reads this? The other clown? He’s VP of the Theta Xi fraternity at Montclair State University. I gotta believe if Theta Xi is cool with a VP of one of their chapters acting like this I’d prefer to have no one I know in it. Also, does anyone attending Montclair State University have a student handbook? If so can you pass it along because I am pretty sure there are about 90 violations in this idiots tweets. Schilling's essay continued, obviously, at great lengths, even calling out further trolls who challenged him after he published the piece Sunday. You could make the case that Schilling — who works as an analyst for ESPN and recently beat cancer — should just ignore the 140-character miscreants and you wouldn't be altogether wrong. The celebrity in a flame war very often has little to gain, even if he or she dominates like Schilling did here. As Schilling will most likely tell you right now, this wasn't about him as a celebrity, a baseball player or a cable analyst. This was just a dad defending the honor of his daughter and taking the no-holds-barred approach.
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03-02-2015, 02:28 PM	#20
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	Hilarious. Personally, I am really glad Twitter didn't become relevant until after I was 25. If I could give any advice to anyone (mostly young men) ... no Twitter until you graduate college. I still haven't really gotten into Twitter (I realize it's useful and awesome), but man ... I could have gotten into a lot of trouble for a lot of the things I used to say on the Internet. There were a group of 25-50 of us who used to parade around social media boards before Facebook and deplorable things were said. Not proud of it, but...my God.
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03-02-2015, 02:31 PM	#21
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	Shit, think about the things we say on this board (tongue in cheek) ... stuff about rape, AIDS, 'defeeted teenagers', etc... In one hand, it's the Internet, get over it. On the other hand, Good God.
Posts: 56,356

03-02-2015, 02:36 PM	#25
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	when I first signed up for Twitter I sent 1 tweet, right away, to Scott Hanson (studio host of NFL RedZone the first year RedZone came out)... It was something like... "Dude stop GD blinking all the time I can't stand it it makes RedZone unwatchable!" (he blinks a lot) He responded with : "Got it. Less blinks. Thanks!" ...and then I immediately just felt bad and decided I wasn't going to be mean on Twitter anymore! Ha. I'm glad he responded otherwise my Twitter trolling may have went on for quite some time. At least I know I have a soul, somewhat.
Posts: 56,356

03-02-2015, 02:39 PM	#28
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	I think I've tweeted about 100 tweets in 5 years. 75 of them were @Chiefs or @Royals players congratulating them for something. 20 of them were me going nuts because Showtime Anytime was down for 5 hours during the Homeland finale. I was so mad. 1 of them was to Hanson. 4 of them were to Meatloaf because he won a Larry Fitzgerald autographed football fron ESPN Fantasy Games and I was trying to persuade him to give me the ball because he's ****ing Meatloaf and he doesn't deserve to win everything in life
Posts: 56,356