Schilling on Twitter trolls: 'I'll never not protect' my daughter
At the risk of embarrassing his teenage daughter, former MLB pitching ace Curt Schilling delivered some stone-cold reality to keyboard toughguys who spewed vile comments about Gabby Schilling on Twitter.
It started when Schilling posted a congratulatory message to Gabby about her college acceptance to Salve Regina, where she will pitch for the softball team. At least two individuals took the message as an opportunity to post some truly horrible things about Gabby, which Schilling screencapped (Twitter has suspended or deactivated both accounts).
One of the men, Sean MacDonald, a Montclair State University graduate, used to work for the New York Yankees as a part-time ticket seller; when the team discovered the things MacDonald wrote, they fired him immediately.
"We have zero tolerance for anything like this," said Jason Zillo, the Yankees director of communications. "We've terminated him."
"It wasn't a mistake," Schilling said on "Good Morning America" about the explicit things the men wrote. "This was a conscious decision to be an idiot and to say some pretty evil stuff."
"I'll do everything I can to NOT embarrass her," Schilling said with Gabby by his side, "but I'll never not protect her."
One of the other men Schilling targeted for his exceptionally noxious remarks is Adam Nagel, a student at Brookdale Community College. According to NJ.com, the school has suspended Nagel pending an "official conduct review."
Twitter, Facebook, comments sections and every online platform can get ugly at times. One study found that online trolls are often narcissists, psychopaths and sadists, or some combination.
"These boys have yet to understand one of life's most important lessons," Schilling wrote on his blog. "In the real world you get held accountable for the things you say and if you are not careful that can mean some different things."
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