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Curt Schilling calls out daughter's Twitter trolls

Former Phillies pitcher decries cyberbullying

When Curt Schilling posted a proud message on Twitter about his daughter's college acceptance, it didn't take long for cyberbullies to respond with "vulgar and defiling" replies about the teenager.

So the former Phillies pitcher fought back.

As he recounts on his website, Schilling lashed out at the trolls, identifying the people behind some of the most vile messages and posting a lengthy blog post about cyberbullying and social media.

The ordeal started when Schilling posted on Wednesday that his daughter was headed to Salve Regina University.

After that, "tweets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely fathom began to follow," Schilling wrote.

He posted multiple screenshots of some of the worst responses and detailed information about the offenders:

"The Sports Guru"? Ya he's a DJ named Adam Nagel (DJ is a bit strong since he's on the air for 1 hour a week) on Brookdale Student Radio at Brookdale Community College. How do you think that place feels about this stud representing their school? You don't think this isn't going to be a nice compilation that will show up every single time this idiot is googled the rest of his life? What happens when a potential woman he's after googles and reads this?

The other clown? He's VP of the Theta Xi fraternity at Montclair State University. I gotta believe if Theta Xi is cool with a VP of one of their chapters acting like this I'd prefer to have no one I know in it. Also, does anyone attending Montclair State University have a student handbook? If so can you pass it along because I am pretty sure there are about 90 violations in this idiots tweets."

Schilling also decried the trolls' behavior, saying their "ignorance and pathetic lack of morals or of any integrity is astounding."

"But I have to ask, is this even remotely ok? In ANY world? At ANY time? Worse yet? No less than 7 of the clowns who sent vile or worse tweets are athletes playing college sports," he wrote.

He criticized young people who post such messages without thinking: "This is a generation of kids who have grown up behind the monitor and keyboard. The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after. [...] What these kids are failing to realize, what this generation fails to realize is this; Everything they've just said and done? That is out there now, forever. It can, and in some cases will, follow them for the rest of their lives."

Schilling acknowledged that he may have embarrassed his daughter, but "there is no situation ever in your life, where it's ok for any 'man' to talk about you, or any other woman this way."

Gabby Schillling, though, has tweeted multiple links to news stories about her father defending her.

As for the Twitter trolls named by Schilling: Their accounts on the social media platform are no longer active.

Brookdale Community College said in a statement that the student involved had been suspended, while NJ.com reports that the Montclair student is a recent graduate who has now been fired from his job as a part-time ticket seller for the New York Yankees.