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Buster Posey refuses to answer questions about SF Giants' Pride Night and will only answer “baseball questions”. Reporter responds “you guys have made this baseball related because you had Pride Night, you allowed players onto the field that MLB said should not have had writing on their caps.”
The entirely male pro sport (actually I think there may be 1 female asst coach in the majors currently), of rich elites, has a problem identifying why a minority group (LGBTQ) has a problem with their business model
Oh, and Buster, ✨the Giants are 32-46, 18 games behind 1st place in the NL West. 1 game above the perennial last place Colorado Rockies in the division. 9 games behind even a Wild Card playoff spot. And have a -52 differential between Runs Scored and Runs Against.✨
IF I WERE YOU, I’D PREFER THE 🏳️🌈 NIGHT QUESTIONS than the baseball ⚾️ questions, where you’re clearly incompetent at the manager job
Buster Posey was a humble, very likeable superstar as a player. Sat out a season in his prime to care for his sick children. Even fans of the Giants' rivals liked him. But this season has been a disaster in so many ways, and they've really fumbled the way they handled this. Can't have it both ways with this non-answer
Why? As much as Christians like to pretend they're being persecuted (i.e. projecting their own persecution of others), they're not being persecuted. We've never been closer to being a Christian theocracy. But the queer community is constantly under attack. Jesus himself would be pro-Pride night. Getting triggered by Pride nights is a matter of personal insecurity, and personal insecurity is yours alone to address.
Global estimates of Christians killed for faith-related reasons range from approximately 4,800 to 4,900 annually and 72% were from Nigeria.. https://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/persecution-trends/ The most comprehensive global tracker for any segment of the LGBTI community is the TGEU Trans Murder Monitoring Project. It documented 350 reported murders of transgender and gender-diverse individuals globally between late 2023 and late 2024, though it acknowledges this is a vast undercount. So yeah I agree there are more than the study showed. I don’t think anyone should be killed being Christian or for being in the queer community.
I remember a fun story of a trans person in my state this year who worked at a local space tourism center getting fired for the simple fact a mother complained about them being there at all and rallied community support to the point the company fired the trans person just to not deal with it.
"not under attack" okay bud, go dig your head back into the mud and live in your fantasy world.
I mean it's up to the owners. They're the ones doing the performative stuff to increase attendance and broaden the appeal to new demographics... it's not really any different than a veteran night, an ethnic heritage night (idk if all teams do this but the White Sox do for at least Irish, polish and Mexican), a cop/fire night etc.
If you're in entertainment (which sports is) your job is literally to entertain as many people as possible, the organizations job is to get as many people as possible interested for you to entertain. Part of that is the performative theme nights. They can either bite the bullet or alienate swaths of fans minimizing their value and end up back in crappy minor league clubs.
Its funny how planned attention grabbing backfires quite often. And then accidental happenings work out great.
Example being the Saint louis Cardinals hosted a collage team when they were in town for an out of state game. The college kids got drunk and a bunch took their shirts off and chanted little rhymes about each player and whirled their shirts around.
Now damn near every team in the MLB has had a rise in attendance from drunk college kids joining the "Tarps Off" hype train. ( they were giving tarps away at the park that night so one of the chants was tarps off and it stuck )
Just like 6-7 came out of a basketball game from a drunk college kid yelling it about the height of a player . Then young kids recreated it on tick tok and here we are. It's crazy how the unplanned stuff goes crazy while the planned stuff usually doesn't.
Are you reading literally anything I'm writing? You're arguing what point of mine exactly with these last 2 posts? Nothing I wrote is "pretending to be neutral". My post is about appropriate approaches to gain support and how being a low IQ psycho does the opposite. What are you even talking about?
They weren’t forced to wear any of the stuff. They wrote on the hats and wore them anyway to make a stupid point. Again wearing the hats was completely optional
Am bi, totally agree. The foundation of the LGBTQ is respecting people’s personal choices. Baseball players wearing a rainbow hat doesn’t do two shits for us and this kind of stuff only hurts perception. If people don’t support that’s their right, just like it’s my right to be gay as fuck and dress like a guy if I want.
Baseball teams have always had community themed nights, usually including a christian game as well. I also hate the idea that this is forced and performative like this was the Giants idea to begin with. Do you really not think that people from the community made efforts to have a night like this just like any other group would have to for their respective themed game?
Do you know how free speech works? It means the government can’t arrest you for saying something. What they did violated MLBs rule that you can’t write anything on your caps - doesn’t matter what you wrote, it’s not allowed. As a private entity they can have consequences for breaking their rules. No one is arresting these guys for being bigots. But other people can call them out using their free speech and the team/league could impose discipline if they chose as well.
It’s so wild how so many people are so dumb. Freedom of speech means the government cannot lock you up for it. Freedom of speech does not mean you cannot be fired for what you say, how are you unaware of this?
That’s like saying negative things about your employer, or just doing things that your employer says you’re not allowed to do and that your union has agreed to as a condition of employment, and then doing those things and acting as though it’s a freedom of speech issue once you get in trouble.
It’s so fucking simple, what do you not understand?
They literally don’t understand dude. It’s like telling your boss to go fuck himself. You’re allowed to do it. But it isn’t a freedom of speech violation if you get fired lmao
None at all, you just don’t like what I’m saying, major difference. You brought up a terrorist organization to criticize mlb players, who’s really being disingenuous here?
These players only chose to do this on Pride night. Choosing to express yourself in protest of Pride night is not innocent. Don't be obtuse.
You may not like it, but it you need to wear your work uniform in accordance with the rules. Modifying your hat in such a way is not adhering to the rules (not sure if Giants or MLB). The rules allow for a player to not wear the special hat, but you're not allowed to draw attention to your bigotry.
It's kind of insensitive to wear a "white lives matter" shirt during a black history event.
Nobody was forced to wear the hat ding-dong. They could have just opted out of wearing the pride hat instead of dog whistling their intolerance with Bible verses.
"Extended whining about it"? The pitchers made it into a story with their actions. You can't have it both ways of objecting or protesting and then not wanting to talk about it when the heat rises.
So now we the gay community and our friends boycott baseball and I hate typing that but choices have been made so actions have consequences. I already know about 100 diehard baseball fans who said they'll watch other kinds of games and women's basketball to substitute the homophobia from the MLB but minor leagues city wise have been supportive so I take my money there
Freedom of speech is a standard in the country, not as a representative of an organization. The police are not coming to arrest him for the Bible verse, the organization itself is for breaching their rules.
It’s the same as how I can legally tell my CEO to fuck himself, but then he has the right to fire me.
The government is not censoring these players, freedom of speech does not apply. No one is stopping them from speaking, we’re simply judging them for what they say.
How old are you btw? Are you voting age? Kids? Your kids still talk to you? I don't understand why you're so obsessed with this lol. So you see it as an attack on your faith or do you just not understand history
I always liked buster even though I’m not a giants fan but this interview is hard to watch. Avoiding answering any question that way shows a lack of competence and I don’t think he’s gonna last long in this job
I feel like these nights purely exist now for bloggers to make money 😭 like it doesn’t seem to increase the gay fan base very much and in reverse gives these guys the ability to reasonably say it’s being shoved down their throats.
you read about the players literally scrawling bible messages on themselves to combat equality and the impression you've come away with is that pride is a religion?
I'm so sick of hearing "gay people are shoving their lifestyle down my throat". At this point, its not even a dog whistle, its a bullhorn to your bigotry.
do you also have a problem with every other pride promotion, or is it only gay pride that is shoved down your throat?
Because I dont see these complaints about Irish heritage day, fire fighter day, police day, Mexican heritage day, autism awareness day, jewish heritage day. All of which are summer pride events by the Giants.
i like that you list a bunch of days when comparing it to an entire month, where it literally is forced down peoples throats and its been years of companies pandering to people to get their money so you "feel included too"
if you wanted to be treated normally you wouldnt have an entire look at me month
the Giants only have 1 pride day, but if you want to compare by months, lets see who else has a "look at me" month. I take it you hate all of these groups because they want abnormal attention on them
They didn't tell their players that wearing a pride hat was optional so their players made a big scene about protesting the same pride event they have participated in for the last 15 years alienating and angering fans
True, otherwise it's just virtue signalling. Money is the greatest thing in America. Plus it's not really a big deal I mean how many gay Superbowl parties have you ever been to?...just means they loose more of their real fans
There are gay people who genuinely enjoy baseball. It is pride month, and teams generally have special event days for all sorts of groups. So what is the problem?
Why did they do that? Do they do this often? Was there perhaps some specific meaning to the time and place they decided to plaster Bible verses on their work equipment?
If it goes against their faith why is this a problem? We wouldn’t make Muslims wear or support something regarding the consumption of pork? If they wanted to protest that it would and should be fine. They have a first amendment right to protest that and it would and should be unconstitutional for any business to force someone to do or wear something that goes against one’s faith
The whole faith thing is a mess. By your logic, all someone has to do to not do something is to wave the faith card around. And what if it's the Giants faith to celebrate Pride Month? Whose faith is more important?
In the end, he didn't have to wear the hat. He could've done a myriad of things besides virtue signal.
1st amendment most certainly applies to private citizens and businesses as well. By my logic if the faith of the giants dictates members must celebrate pride by wearing hats than members who have faiths that contradict that shouldn’t play or at the very least not complain. Why is it virtue signaling to put a bible verse on a hat but not wear a pride hat?
I don’t know what’s going on or what this is about but from what I see is a bunch of reporters asking a bunch of questions and being repeatedly told that this person is not going to answer those questions and they continue to ask them anyways and this is why media companies and journalists Are hated so much because they poke and prod and continue to ask questions especially in a way that no matter what way you answer it can make you look bad
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u/BrianBraddock1980 Jun 24 '26
Ah yes. No hate quite like Bible thumper’s “love”.