Curt Schilling Off Twitter After Crying Foul On Bubba Wallace

Former Red Sox ace and current right-wing provocateur Curt Schilling deactivated his Twitter account Wednesday after a rough outing on the social media platform.

Schilling, who has long maintained his controversial political views have kept him out of the Hall of Fame, compared NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to actor Jussie Smollett and feuded with Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer.

The FBI determined this week that Wallace, NASCAR's only black driver, was not the target of a hate crime. What was originally believed to be a noose found in his garage at the Talladega Superspeedway was a pull rope for a garage door that had been there at least a year.

In response, Schilling pondered:

"So we have Jussie Smollett v 2.0? Where is the media recanting their idiocy? It was all a lie."

Smollett famously claimed he was attacked by two masked men in Chicago who called him racial and homophobic slurs, poured a liquid on him, put a noose around his neck, and exclaimed "this is MAGA country!" before he fought them off.

Investigators determined the attack never happened, and Smollett was charged with 16 counts of disorderly conduct. The charges were later dropped. He was again charged with staging and falsely reporting an attack, to which he pleaded guilty in February.

Schilling hopped back on Twitter to take shots at Bauer, tweeting that he had a "baseball IQ of 8." He told Bauer to "keep grinding for that 200-inning season" and "maybe one year you'll show up in October."

Bauer retorted by using Schilling's own words to question his playing ability and intelligence. Some said Bauer's comebacks chased Schilling from Twitter, while others pointed to his take on Bubba Wallace.

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