Curt Schilling, a pitcher who played for several Major League Baseball teams over the course of an 18-year career, posted the below tweet February 25 congratulating his daughter Gabby on her college acceptance for next year:
Because this is the Internet and we can't have nice things, Twitter trolls immediately started hounding him with sexually explicit and vulgar comments about Gabby (pictured above playing softball with her dad).
Schilling proceeded to single out accounts that were particularly awful and share their Internet-accessible information for all the world to read on his blog:
"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.
Deadspin reports that @Nagels_Bagels has been suspended from Twitter and that Brookdale Community college has suspended him. @primetime227's Twitter account is also shut down, according to Deadspin.
Schilling continues to update his blog, but says that for now, he is done calling out trolls because the Twitter hatred is all the same. He's now posted this tear-jerking message to his daughter:
Gabby I know you're likely embarrassed and for that I apologize. But as we have talked about, there is no situation ever in your life, where it's ok for any "man" to talk about you, or any other woman this way (and truth be told no real man would ever talk this way anyway) ... I need you to leave this home with when you head to college is the knowledge that I love you more than life itself and there is NOTHING I would not do to protect you.
The response?
Awww. Mazel tov to Gabby on her accomplishment and watch the fuck out to anyone who tries to mess with her in college next year.
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