http://deadspin.com/espn-edited-curt-schilling-out-of-an-airing-of-the-04-r-1774182226
This is especially rich, because Schilling—as a former ESPN employee—should know full well that programming is regularly edited for time constraints. But further proving that he’ll share any misinformation that aligns with his beliefs, Schilling disingenuously raised a stink about it anyway—to the degree that ESPN had to release a statement to explain what was obvious to anyone with a functioning brain:
When a live event runs long, it’s standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows. In this case, we needed to edit out one of the film’s four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game.
SNIP
So a non-issue became a big issue to a lot of people, somehow. But here’s a better question: Why was anyone watching a six-year-old documentary at that hour anyway? Here are a few of the live sports airing at that hour (5:30 p.m. Eastern) yesterday:
Trail Blazers-Warriors NBA playoff basketball
Blues-Stars NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey
Ten MLB games
PGA Tour golf
Timbers-Toronto FC soccer
Northwestern-Indiana college baseball
LPGA Tour golf
Campeonato Paulista soccer
Guadalajara vs Dorados Liga MX soccer
... and the finish of the NASCAR race, which ran long due to lots of wrecks
Clearly we’re dealing with some level-headed people here.
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