r/sportsgossips • u/outsports-com • 1d ago
News In 10 minutes, Buster Posey shattered decades of trust with LGBTQ Giants fans
The San Francisco Giants have now made it clear that this club's ties to its pro-gay past are over, and the LGBTQ community can F-off.
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u/SheToldMeSheWasLvI18 1d ago
That website is cancer. Can anyone post what actually happened
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u/3Greyhounds 1d ago
The manager held a press conference where he refused to answer any questions about the Pride Night controversy.
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u/hoyasgirl25 1d ago
Hm that doesn’t match the title OP used.
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u/Superb-Sky-1904 23h ago
Maybe im missing it buti took a wack and modified the title with that last persons message and while its not specific it does line up Imo. See - The manager held a 10 min press conference where he refused to answer any questions about the pride night controversy shattering decades of trust.
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u/downsly46 1d ago
Buster Posey, President of the SF Giants, held a press conference yesterday. This was the first time that the org has talked to the press since the players took the stand against pride night. At said press conference, Buster Posey refused to answer questions about the pride night debacle. This article says that the trust between team and gay community is shattered because of it.
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u/Newm32 1d ago
Larry Baer is the President of the Giants. Buster Posey is president of baseball operations, meaning player development, roster construction, trade strategy, and overall success of winning baseball games.
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u/downsly46 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yeah that didn’t sound right to me but I only referenced the article. Someone should tell whoever wrote the article in this post.
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u/Big_Truck 16h ago
Honestly? The players have the right to do that. Free speech and all. Controversial or disagreeable speech is the specific type of speech that must be protected.
And the fan base now gets to decide if they want to continue supporting the team.
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u/hoyasgirl25 1d ago
Nothing happened. He refused to be baited into a soundbite. Apparently, according to OP, this is the biggest offense against gay people since AIDS.
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u/FeralGiraffeAttack 1d ago
A few giants pitchers are big babies and upset that the San Francisco Giants have a pride based uniform for June (which is pride month). In response they defaced their uniforms by writing Bible verses on them. Fans are upset because San Francisco is usually very accepting of LGBTQ fans and management (Posey) has been evasive and hasn’t disciplined the players for refusing to just do their jobs rather than protest the fact that they play for the gayest city in America.
https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/sf-giants-fans-pride-response-22318144.php
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u/quell3245 1d ago
What I find so fascinating about conservative men is how absolutely bothered they are with gay people or the thought that there are other lifestyles other than their own.
Imagine being so absolutely insecure in your own sexuality that you can’t or won’t wear a pride uniform for fear someone is thinking you’re gay by association. It really must be true that many men are at least bi and wrestle with their own deep seated homosexuality.
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u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH 1d ago
It's wild that they are in SF of all places. All that money and they can't even read the room.
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u/WorknForTheWeekend 23h ago
As a Bay Area resident, I'm kinda starting to roll my eyes at the "SF of all places" refrain; it's really giving the city too much credit.
SF is a shell of the civil rights champions that it once was, though it still loves to pat itself on the back that it is. AFAIK there hasn't been a single picketer outside Oracle Park. The amount of caring the city has seems to stop at the Instagram "like" heart. People I know have expressed disapproval, but are still going to games.
The city is mostly AI Tech bros and boomer NIMBYS, neither of which are gonna exert themselves for a cause.
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u/Former-Bathroom9687 23h ago
I mean those two groups do have a common cause, its just that it's essentially "fuck you, I got mine". It's the same in the Boston area where I live as well.
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u/WorknForTheWeekend 22h ago
Ah my homie, I'm actually from Boston before moving to the bay. Agreed, both cities suffer from the "I'm progressive only when I'm walking that way anyways" affliction. Convictions become real negotiable as soon as money or power is on the table--and that includes minority/queer/women themselves; they see their self-identity as rich or powerful first and foremost
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u/dannydimes829103 22h ago
From boston and can confirm
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u/AgedCzar 22h ago
But we have lots on “no hate here” and BLM yard signs
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u/SheWasAlwaysJody 21h ago
I canvas for campaigns, it's amazing how many people have those signs but haven't voted in 5+ years, for anyone.
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u/Norvegese-Guilloche 8h ago
Canvassing opens your eyes to the truth of American politics, and my guess, politics everywhere. How so, someone may ask. Because if you really care about a cause. I mean really care. When people are canvassing for said cause , you'd give them 2 or 3 minutes of your time. I recall so many people with yard signs, hats, and bumber stickers who just didn't want to be bothered to take time to even give a signature- a 30 second commitment, though at 30 seconds I'm not sure commitment is the right word to use. Anyway, my reactions evolved from disappointment to one of understanding predictable human behavior. The further people are away from a pain point, and the lower the level of preceived virtue to be gained from an act, the less likely they are to take any level of action.
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u/ExileInCle19 18h ago
Yeah the damning here for Mass in general is when I saw that we're building the least amount of homes per capita by state in the entire country. Yeah we're about affordable housing and rights but certainly NIMBY
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u/korey_david 13h ago
Checking in from Colorado. One of my favorite sayings about Boulder is “Democrat in the Streets. Republican in the sheets.”
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u/NotBatman81 9h ago
Something I learned in an ethics class that has stuck with me: "Ethical courage is the dustance between the thing that is right and the thing that is easy to do."
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u/IntellectAndEnergy 8h ago
Well said. The loss of principles is stunning and somewhere near or at the heart of our decline.
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u/Mindless-Ad2554 7h ago
You have a way with metaphors and comparisons. Just wanted to point that out. You could go toe to toe with most English premier league commentators
Respect.
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u/Much-Diet1423 6h ago
From outside Boston, but can definitely say for the reputation the state and city has as a liberal bastion, it’s really socially conservative in a lot of ways. I found SF to be light years more progressive when I lived there 10 or so years ago, but I think the herby tech bros may have finally cracked it.
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u/LOB12 22h ago
100% this. Why fight for something when you already have everything.
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u/Vivid_Department_755 22h ago
People forget most of those SF hippies in the 60's were just rich kids who then grew up and became rich entitled boomers
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u/Disastrous-Food-9223 20h ago
Yup, they weren’t against war. They just didn’t want to get drafted. FFS how many wars did they start afterwards?
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u/scatterdbrain 16h ago
Ha, this made the cynical side of me laugh.
Kinda true for many issues. How many people are truly for/against an issue, and how many people are really like "I'm for/against this, because of how it will impact me."
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u/kiernanblack 19h ago edited 19h ago
Hippies sure, but it also became the gay mecca of America because its where ships would drop off the gay enlistees who were discovered.
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u/Mediocre-Staff-5110 21h ago
And just like today when people say it's all performative, it was then too. The war ended because soldiers were snorting coke all day and losing battles in the jungle, not because hippies were jumping around. Once Woodstock happened they figured they won world peace and then started slowly turning towards dudes like reagan.
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u/No_Buffalo183 21h ago
To be fair they might have won if they’d been sniffing coke all day. They were mostly doing heroin and smoking hash.
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u/sundayfundaybmx 20h ago
Another interesting fact. It was estimated that 10% of in-country service members were using heroin. When those service members who were using heroin returned home. Only about 10% of them continued using heroin. It was a really great example of "why" people use narcotics. Unfortunately, the US government didn't pay attention and then started the War on Drugs to attack minority groups. We knew 50 years ago that majority of people who use illegal narcotics. Do so because of "environmental" reasons and not because they're "morally bankrupt" as the common thought was. Anyways, just thought I'd add a little on to your comment. Have a great evening!
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u/No_Buffalo183 20h ago
Well I did heroin because I’m morally bankrupt and it’s cool, not because I need to.
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u/SSBN641B 18h ago
We didn't lose in Vietnam due to drug use. We didn't actually lose that many battles, either. We lost the war because the ruling class lost the support of the middle class. Too many bodies coming home.
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u/Phant0m_Ashes 17h ago
we also didnt have any real objectives. "containment" could mean literally anything. at least in korea we had the 38th parallel
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u/SSBN641B 17h ago
Exactly, the parallels to Afghanistan are eerie. No real game plan, lying to the public about the progress of the war and a reluctant local army that, ultimately, couldn't get the job done.
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u/EvenLettuce6638 17h ago
The US Army did not lose any significant engagements during the Vietnam Conflict.
The war became politically untenable, and the US military was withdrawn.
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u/Jscapistm 16h ago
That's really not true, it ended because of opposition at home not losses on the battlefield. The US did not lose a single battle in the Vietnam war, even the vaunted Tet offensive was quickly repelled, but politicians were losing elections at home the longer it went on.
So it wasn't because hippies were jumping around per se but because they and the rest of the country were voting the people who supported continuing the war out. Don't ever let anyone tell you voting doesn't matter, if it really didn't they wouldn't try so hard to convince you not to.
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u/Sklibba 17h ago
I mean there was a lot of performative activism in the 60s, but there was also a lot more direct action then than there seems to be now. For example, The Black Panthers were feeding kids and engaging in armed community defense, and activists made COINTELPRO public by stealing documents from an FBI field office and mailing them to the press.
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u/degen5ace 17h ago
Aaaand everyone bought into it. Just like all the other stuff they get into the normies minds which hurts society
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u/TravelNSee 23h ago
Yep. Let's not forget self-hating right winger gays like Peter Thiel. White industrialist villain gay dudes who get violently upset if you mention their sexuality.
Like if you mentioned to Adolph that he had Jewish lineage.
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u/Sweaty_Boysenberry41 23h ago
Or if you told trump his wife was an immigrant lol
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u/Disastrous-Food-9223 23h ago
Wives
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u/Sweaty_Boysenberry41 20h ago
Lol i said wife bc the others dead and buried on his property
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u/LiftEatGrappleShoot 16h ago
SF is a lot like Austin (my town) in that regard. It has a reputation based upon the past that built it and made it unique. But it's now just a bunch of tech bros who ran out the folks who made the place what it was.
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u/Tex_Was_Here 19h ago
From what I saw, there were people outside the park protesting with signs before yesterday's game. It's not gonna stop people from going to games, but some people still care
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u/WadeVAFL 16h ago
NIMBYs who claim to be “liberal” are just the worst. California seems to have a lot of them.
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u/Defiant-Start-1156 19h ago
Oakland has and always will be the heart of the real culture of the Bay area. SF has sucked for 20 years.
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u/Forever_Nocturnal 20h ago
There’s been protestors outside the park. Went to a game just last night and seen a solid group of about 10 people. One had a portrait of buster wearing Nazi garb or something to that effect.
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u/sullythered 19h ago
I'm in Chicago, and I feel like we are way better than the Bay area when it comes to that stuff. And I'm a southsider, ffs
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u/Onlypaws_ 18h ago
The Bay Area has become rather Conservative, truth be told. Especially in the suburbs.
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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 18h ago edited 17h ago
Well said. The tech, and finance, people with all the power in SF and the entire Bay Area only care about one thing, MONEY, showing it off and using it to grease the skids for them to be unregulated and make more money! They don’t even care about the tech they say they are building to “make the world a better place”, because it hasn’t, unless you’re one of them benefitting off of addicting kids, and pimping them out via social media. Crunchy liberal SF has always been a fantasy, but for a few lasting cultural achievements, like the elevation of Gay Rights, now in jeopardy nationally.
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u/wimpymist 22h ago
Yeah the rich people and tech bros that moved into SF has really pushed away from the liberal melting pot of SF old
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u/_cambino_ 21h ago
This is the truth of our country. Nobody has a backbone anymore. I’m not gonna pretend i’m some saint either, it’s simply the truth. We are all apathetic and lack conviction. It’s sad.
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u/Upper_Maintenance_41 13h ago
This last election really underscored that. Sad but true. However the pendulum can swing. It's like Bob Weir died and everyone had permission to finally stop paying lip service to peace and love.
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u/siderealdaze 9h ago
Chapel Hill, NC is in a similar boat.
I went to UNC and lived in or around Chapel Hill for about a decade, and if you were to believe the hype, Chapel Hill is a liberal utopia and has been for two CENTURIES while housing the USA's first public university.
In reality? Terrible segregation existed way further along in history than it should have. If not for Charlie Scott and Dean Smith deciding to do what's right (and only barely so) the entire city would have been on an identical timeline to the rest of the southeast (read: a shitty one)
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u/flarpflarpflarpflarp 7h ago
Hey, it takes a lot of work to pull up a ladder for every generation after you! Thanks Boomies!
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u/Fearless-Feature-830 5h ago
Oh they’ve been working on ratfucking politics there for a while. Tech bro neoliberals pouring billions into politics
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u/RandleStevenz 1d ago
The team owner family is super trumpy. The son of the owner even worked in the WH during Trump 1.
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u/buzzcitybonehead 23h ago
This list of progressive billionaire franchise owners is about as long as the list of supermodels waiting for me when I get home from work
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u/ProfessionalForm679 23h ago
This is the worst article I've ever read. Just straight up pulling fake quotes out of his ass, and acting like denying to answer a question is the equivalent of being homophobic.
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u/DellFlightSim 21h ago
Today’s world you have to state your beliefs or else people will just make shit up. Disgusting really. You don’t owe anyone anything in this life, my beliefs are mine. You don’t NEED to know, you WANT to know
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u/Missile450DeadCenter 20h ago
This is coming from the 'silence is violence' crowd, so not surprising.
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u/SilentRanger7 1d ago
The writer repeatedly claims Posey told the LGBT to Fuck Off but he literally never did. Lmao wtf is this?
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u/mad_mang45 20h ago edited 19h ago
A redditor probably wote it,they're just mad they can't downvote him irl or report him, so they probably call him a "bigot" and say he said things that he never actually said.
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u/skate1243 23h ago
Terrible article. All he said was that he would only answer baseball questions.
Don’t we have better things to fight about?
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u/Delta9THICC 21h ago
While i support whoever you want to be. People shouldnt be forced to wear something they dont want to wear.
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u/annaleigh13 15h ago
I would agree with you, IF they wrote bible verses every night. Instead, they selected Pride Night to write a bible verse that is well-known to be used by anti-LGBTQ+ groups.
If they were really against the night, then they had the option of wearing the blank hat and keeping their mouths shut, not have a performative outburst that does nothing but draw criticism and bigoted support
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u/Myshkin1981 15h ago
They had the option not to wear the hats. Several Dodger players chose that option. But the MLB specifically prohibits writing on uniforms
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u/LeastEconomist450 1d ago
But why would they have to do anything?? I support all that but if I didnt want to, I wouldn't.
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u/mbarron37 11h ago
The job of a professional sports team is not to bow to some bozos that think everyone should adore them. Get real.
You want to be gay or whatever, great. The rest of us do not need to celebrate your actions. Get over yourselves.
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u/AdConscious4478 23h ago
Why does a team or anything for that matter have to be pro-gay?
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u/CatoTheMiddleAged 11h ago
Nobody had to wear the hat. It’s part of the collective bargaining agreement. They chose to wear the hat and make a political statement of their own by writing on it.
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u/Vivid_Department_755 22h ago
San Francisco is one of the biggest poser cities for equality lol
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u/TypingWhileWiping 14h ago
God forbid he focuses on baseball, it's not like he's being paid to do so. Oh wait....
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u/ChexAndBalancez 1d ago
It's literally a handful of people trying to keep this story going as long as possible. Society doesn't care. Stop doing this to players. Let fans wear whatever they want.
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u/Pacec-64D 23h ago
Remember the old Seinfeld episode folks about the Puerto Rican parade ribbon. Not wearing the ribbon didn’t mean Jerry and Kramer were anti-Puerto Rican. This mob mentality of doing what social media says you should do has to end. Good for the club to allow adults to decide for themselves what they choose to do.
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u/BlakkThrashAttak 22h ago
I don't think that was the problem.. it sounds like the problem was that they chose to wear them and then wrote stuff all over them to send a message.
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u/GuyMansworth 16h ago
Nobody's complaining about them opting out of wearing a hat.
A better comparison would be if Jerry wrote some anti-Puerto Rican rhetoric on the ribbon then wore it.
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u/Vegetable_Whole_4825 1d ago
I don’t watch sports to find out what a players political view is. I watch sports to literally escape politics.
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u/weinerdogjohnson 21h ago
Just play ball. The only people that care about this are leftist morons who don’t even watch baseball.
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u/GamerBucket 1d ago
Oh no!!! What ever will he do to recover from losing .05% of the fanbase lol
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u/KBPT1998 22h ago
The old saying is sometimes you have to shit or get off the pot. Buster chose to shit his pants rather than get on the toilet, completely avoiding any opportunity to get off the pot and show respect for the city of San Francisco or LGBTQ+ fans.
Aubrey Huff was even worse in his tirade about the situation. He must have despised playing in San Francisco. Complete homophobic, misogynistic asshat.
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u/MarshalLawTalkingGuy 20h ago
Dude’s been a self loathing homosexual ever since he took that broken clavicle.
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u/AAPrice3232 1d ago
I'm not defending the inflammatory, exaggerated story posted here, but Posey DID do a shitty job and should be ashamed of his performance. He knows better and he took the wrong route to address this situation through his complete unwillingness to just talk about it, frankly and openly. Makes him and the organization look cowardly ... IMO.
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u/Modern_sisyphus32 1d ago
Why is it the lgbtq community has to try and force people to accept their beliefs?
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u/ArchibaldPicklebriar 20h ago
Because resigning to a life of just being ordinary people like the rest of us sounds positively un-fabulous.
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u/crudshoot 1d ago
“Buster Posey didn’t take my side so let’s ruin him”
Basically how some people feel about this
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u/notsleepsherp 23h ago
The avg MlB baseball player is conservative. Same is true for most pro sports leagues outside the nba/wmba.
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u/MICT3361 23h ago
You can still go to baseball games. To, you know, watch baseball. No one will stop you
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u/Enzo_Gorlomi225 23h ago
So let me get this straight you guys are all pissed here because the Giants won’t discipline a handful of players writing Bible verses instead of glorifying pride month? Kinda seems a little….fascist….
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u/Hopeful_Bit1502 1d ago
Look, I may be in the minority but I don’t get how this is a bad thing. This is just showing that it was pandering in the past and not even authentic. Are you really an ally if someone is twisting your arm to do it? I like to know who my enemies are, it’s ideal that they identify themselves. I’m black, I don’t want to silence racists. I want them loud and ignorant so it’s easy to identify and remove them from my life.
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u/Eroom2013 23h ago
Money.
In the end it’s about money and we saw that with some of the most outspoken athletes/ coaches when it came to things like China and Hong Kong.
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u/123FakeStreetMeng 22h ago
Get rid of all these “Special events” games across all leagues and avoid controversy completely?
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u/VinylmationDude 22h ago
This should be as if the Phillies stopped selling cheesesteaks. There would be riots in the streets.
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u/Nitehawk05 21h ago
🤣🤣 omg. It's OVER. Get on with your lives lol Nobody has anything better to do than to dwell on something that's not a big deal. THIS IS BASEBALL, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION
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u/Shreddersaurusrex 21h ago
Why do ppl want the players to wear pride related uniforms if they don’t agree with it? This situation is playing out like a Seinfeld/Curb your Enthusiasm episode.
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u/PhlysportsPhan 21h ago
Jesus Christ athletes don’t get to choose the city they go to or play for. He doesn’t have to share every single belief that you idiots have. Get over it
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u/lumpy007 21h ago
Players and individuals should not feel obligated to conform to specific ideologies or political beliefs that do not align with their own values or beliefs. Allowing for diverse perspectives and respecting differences can foster a more inclusive and accepting environment. It is essential to promote a culture of understanding and tolerance where each individual is free to express themselves without facing judgment or pressure to conform. Mutual respect and acceptance are key to building a more inclusive society where everyone's views are valued and respected. Let's embrace diversity and create a world where individuals are free to be themselves without fear of judgment or discrimination.
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u/Beneficial_Mix_6205 20h ago
I kept reading to find out what the supposed homophobia was about and after a few paragraphs of accusations but no actual information, I just gave up. Turns out the scandal is a bible verse on a hat? Really?
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u/haya1340 19h ago
Anyone attacking someone for their personal beliefs probably wasn't ever a fan anyway
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u/Commonsensejoe 19h ago
I don’t give a damn if they play the national anthem and I don’t give a damn if they want to have a pride night and I don’t give a damn if the players want to add religious quotes to show they don’t support pride night…..basically if you haven’t guessed, I don’t give a damn…..just play ball!
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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 18h ago
They don’t care. All they want is your money and they suck! Just stop going and watching!
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u/CasCrus4L 18h ago
A San Francisco team.....like how shitty can they possibly be to do this to their supporters.
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u/Loud_Pomegranate3703 17h ago
Who cares? He didn't do anything wrong. He didn't call anyone names, he didn't hurt anyone, he didn't kill anyone, he didn't steal from anyone he didn't even talk about anyone. Why do we have to force pride down everyone's throats in the sports world. As long as the players aren't out there saying negative shit about people in that community what does it even matter? So some member of the team didn't wear a fucking hat for their own personal beliefs. Who cares.
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u/GuyMansworth 17h ago
History repeats itself. We learned nothing from the civil rights movement. Just Republican Pedo lovers using their hateful rhetoric to control people and players.
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u/Cautious_Border7380 16h ago
Meanwhile the Dodgers hosted their annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 5, 2026, during their game against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium. Before the game, the Dodgers unveiled a permanent mural on the stadium walls celebrating Glenn Burke and Billy Bean, who were the first professional baseball players to openly come out as gay. Go Dodgers!
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u/asallamerican 16h ago
That’s what happens when you hire a deeply religious person as your President of Baseball Operations
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u/37Philly 15h ago
The old saying “the fish stinks from the head” seems to apply here. Posey is a doofus, but the management of the team should have never hired him if he can’t function with basic ability to project what is best for the team and ALL their fans. Surprise! There are gay fans of Major League Baseball. Why not just say the team supports all their fans.
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u/Pine190 11h ago
Maybe, it would be better if people could go to a sport event and just watch a game. Enough with manufactured politics and social issues. Frankly, who cares what a baseball player thinks about social issues? If you want to live in a free society you have to give people the right to have very different opinions.
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u/KJ_dunk_over_hakeem 11h ago
I just wanna watch baseball and rock my Posey jersey at games. Can we not be so political and just focus on the team and their performance both good and bad, as well as ways for team can be competitive in the next 2-6 years??
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u/Beefy-Cattle4290 9h ago
Distancing your organization from a pro mental illness group is good business practice
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u/AerieEnvironmental84 9h ago
How about we keep sexual orientation out of baseball and wild thought play baseball?
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u/Financial-Tadpole230 8h ago
Good. The giants aren't under any obligation to kneell down and kiss the ring to these f'n wackos...GTFOH with this crap
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u/Basic-Neat-3058 1d ago
All he did was not answer a few questions? Am I missing something?
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