Former Phillie Curt Schilling tweets, deletes meme comparing Muslims to Nazis

Former Phillie Curt Schilling cemented his role as professional baseball's resident kook Tuesday, tweeting — then deleting — a meme comparing Muslims to Nazis.

"It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists," the meme read. "In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"

"The math is staggering when you get to true #s," the World Series winner wrote of the message. Ultimately, the tweet stayed up for about 10 minutes before he deleted it.

However, not before the rest of Twitter tossed outraged jokes at the ex-Phillies pitcher:

However, Schilling has since apologized, joking at first:

Then coming around to the meme's reportage of the percentage of Nazis in Germany in 1940:

And then outright apologizing for the incident to several individuals:

Previously, Schilling attempted to disprove the theory of evolution on Twitter in November last year. He was inducted into the Phillies' "Wall of Fame" in 2013.

ESPN has since pulled Schilling from his current assignment — calling the Little League World Series — following the ex-Phillie's apology:

"Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company's perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration."