If Curt Shilling, our favorite all-time Phillie, needed yet another reason for his deserved inclusion into the Hall of Fame, the rousing defense of his daughter, Gabriella, last week against cyber-bullies is an excellent one.
Curt tweeted, Feb. 25, a short proud papa note about Gabriella’s acceptance by Salve Regina University in Rhode Island and how she will be pitching for the softball team.
Well, the next week brought froth the vilest comments on Twitter regarding the young girl.
He noted the worst of the worst came from males attending college including college athletes; a vice president of a fraternity at Montclair State University, and college radio disc jockey.
He said it was not hard to find their identities. He said they were “pretty much ALL white, affluent, college attending children, and I mean children.”
He said he informed the athletes’ coaches and several were suspended and made to apologize.
“Gone was the tough guy tweeter, replaced by the “I’m so sorry apology used by those only sorry because they got caught,” Curt said. “It was EXACTLY like the Scared Straight episodes you watch where “tough” kids get brought to tears when they face the real world.”
He noted that some of this crap is going to follow these guys forever and deservedly.
Curt is an outspoken conservative Republican. The ones attacking his daughter don’t like him. We suspect they get their cues from David Letterman, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We suspect that easy access to abortion is the political issue most dear to their hearts.
And we are certain that those proclaiming that conservatives “wage war on women” are just fine with having them as friends and allies.
To read Curt’s rant (language warning applicable as he posts some of the tweets against his daughter verbatim) go to his blog 38 pitches.wordpress.com.
Hat tip Carlos Perez at PJMedia.com
Curt Shilling Rocks Defending Daughter
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