Curt Schilling: Hillary Clinton ‘should be buried under a jail’

ESPN is currently "addressing" comments by former Phillies pitcher Curt Schilling saying presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "should be buried under a jail."

Schilling made his comments Super Tuesday on a call-in interview to Kansas City's 610 Sports Radio, during which host Danny Perkins asked for the former Phillie's thoughts on Clinton going to jail for the use of a private email server.

"I hope she does," Schilling said. "If I'm gonna believe, and I don't have any reason not to believe, that she gave classified information on hundreds, if not thousands, of emails on a public server after what happened to General [David] Petraeus, she should be buried under a jail somewhere."

Petraeus, for his part, avoided jail time by pleading guilty to a misdemeanor mishandling classified material charge. Schilling, however, said Tuesday that Clinton ought not be granted the same courtesy.

"If she's allowed to get to the general election before she's in prison, I'll be stunned and upset. Because I think she's shown her true colors all along the way, and I'll ask you this: Do you see her being anything even remotely different that what we've had?" he said.

ESPN has since responded to Schilling's remarks, telling CNN "We are addressing it." The network suspended Schilling last year after he tweeted a meme that compared the percentage of extremist Muslims to the proportion of Nazis in Germany in the 1940s. Sarah Palin, meanwhile, came to his defense.

Following that incident, the network established guidelines that encouraged employees to "refrain from political editorializing, personal attacks or 'drive-by' comments regarding the candidates and their campaigns." It would appear the Schilling's latest comments are in violation of that policy.

In January, the network announced that Schilling would move from Sunday to Monday night broadcasts — a decision that the announcer appears to have taken as a message. Last month, Schilling gave a $250 donation to Dr. Ben Carson's now-defunct presidential campaign, listing his employer as "ESPN (not sure how much longer)" and occupation as "analyst (for now anyway)."

Schilling picked that thread up in his interview Tuesday, telling the program at its conclusion that he would "probably get fired." He has been with ESPN since 2010.