On Thursday afternoon, ESPN released a statement saying Curt Schilling will not appear on the network for the remainder of the regular season and the Wild Card playoff game.

In August, ESPN removed the retired baseball player from Little League World Series coverage after a controversial tweet.

ESPN’s statement reads:

“At all times during the course of their engagement with us, our commentators are directly linked to ESPN and are the face of our brand. We are a sports media company. Curt’s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company. As a result, he will not appear on ESPN through the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game.”

ESPN’s announcement came two days after Schilling sent an email to the website Awful Announcing defending the tweet that got him suspended and arguing that he “doesn’t have a racist bone” in his body.

“Yet you, like so many others, continue to destroy what’s left of the publics trust and confidence in media by creating a story of your own design and liking when you didn’t need to, and smearing someone’s reputation to do it. Any thought at all as to my children and their thoughts if they read the lie you created? That’s an honest question,” he continued, adding that he refused to apologize for the tweet.

After that email surfaced an ESPN spokesperson said in a statement that the company wasn’t “aware of Curt’s plan to craft or send this email.”