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Former pitcher Mitch Williams feels 'blackballed' by MLB

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Finding a job as a baseball analyst has become suspiciously difficult for Mitch Williams.

The former reliever last worked a baseball-related position in 2014 with MLB Network, but his employment was quickly terminated after a report surfaced stating he was swearing at kids and arguing with umpires during one of his children's Little League games. Despite publicly apologizing for the incident, Williams said MLB has since conspired to completely shut him out from working with the league.

"It's pretty tough to get a job when Major League Baseball is partnered with every network and that sort of thing out there," Williams said on The700Level Show, according to CSNPhilly.com. "For the last almost two years, I've been pretty dormant. I haven't done much."

The "Wild Thing" said his unemployment hasn't come down to a lack of trying, either.

"We've looked everywhere," he said. "There hasn't been a job opportunity even presented that I could even go do and do what I like and what I thought I was getting good at, and that was analyzing baseball."

Shortly after he was fired, Williams opened a lawsuit against the league and Deadspin - the website that originally published the scathing report that ultimately cost him his job. A trial is scheduled for this summer.

Williams is most infamously known for giving up Joe Carter's walk-off home run in the 1993 World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.

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