Schilling accepting of suspension, says there's not a 'racist bone in my body'

Curt Schilling is fully accepting of his suspension from ESPN, two weeks after a controversial tweet landed the former All-Star pitcher in hot water.

"I got suspended because the rules of the company I work for I broke," Schilling told the Dennis and Callahan show Thursday. "I don't have a problem with that. It wasn't the content, it was the act. I'm not racist. I don't have a racist bone in my body. That's not who I am."

Schilling is currently suspended for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs after posting an offensive tweet that likened Muslim extremists to Nazis on Aug. 25.

The 48-year-old apologized shortly after deleting the post and believes his intentions were misunderstood.

"It's part of what in a sense of what they hired me for, is what I got suspended for," Schilling said. "I am comfortable expressing my opinions about things, whether they are right or wrong - I don't try and be wrong. The only thing about the entire thing that bothered me was the people that took the racist angle, which is confusing to me because I'm not sure how you got there, number one, if you read the tweet.

"It stunned me because I would assume when you're a racist you're expecting responses and reports and opposition to things that you say. When you're not someone who says things like that, it kind of caught me off guard."