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ESPN Suspends Keith Law From Twitter For No Real Reason

ESPN has been quick to send their journalists to vacations in recent months. We have seen this most recently with the always controversial Bill Simmons.

But the “sports leader” took this to an entirely new level as it relates to baseball writer Keith Law.

The following are a series of tweets that Deadspin compiled between Law and another ESPN personality, former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling. 

Law’s first mistake here might have been using Wikipedia as a reference. But I digress.

His second mistake is assuming that ESPN allows its journalists to partake in this thing we call freedom of speech. Nothing that Law indicated here was offensive or anti-religion. He’s stating a simple belief that’s he’s more than justified to share on social media.

And the idea that sports writers should stick to the sport they cover on Twitter or any social media site is absolutely ridiculous. So are we supposed to be computers issuing information at the tip of our fingers, only to ignore the important stuff of the day?

In case you didn’t notice, Law has not appeared on Twitter over the past couple days. In the midst of MLB’s hot stove action and running a social media account that has nearly 54,000 tweets to its name, that’s a little fishy in and of itself.

As Deadspin indicated, there is a reason for this.

Heavy-tweetin’ ESPN baseball writer Keith Law has been noticeably silent for the last couple of days. That’s no coincidence—he’s been given a Twitter timeout by ESPN, and we’re told that it’s for loudly and repeatedly defending Charles Darwin from transitional fossil Curt Schilling, his Bristol colleague.

We live in a free and open society. To go out of their way and create an environment where free speech is not recognized among their reporters, ESPN is claiming that it’s nothing more than a figurehead for what is wrong with the uber-PC world today. Sure a few people might get bent out of shape over Law’s tweets, but who really cares? He’s not just an ignorant stooge following what the powers to be in Bristol deem to be correct in the world today.

This also goes to the trust that ESPN has lost over the past year or so. Once considered the sports leader, and a station I grew up watching, the four letter word has become nothing more than a mere indictment on the freedom of press that is necessary in order for the media to inform the masses.

And while Law’s opinion-based tweets might not have been as informative for those who follow him for baseball news, he wasn’t made in a science lab to spit out baseball information like a PEZ.

Oh, and apparently Schilling can continue tweeting his thoughts on the news of the day…

Give me a break!

Photo: ESPN.com

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