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@MrBison85 @RobSchneider @MLB

@mediaandcomms @RobSchneider @MLB Yes, you are wrong. I remember players getting fined for "going against the agenda" they even made players that disagreed with kneeling during the anthem STAY IN THE LOCKER ROOM while players took a knee. All of that was from recall, I swear I'm Beset By Idiots.

I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform. @MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN

@GuntherEagleman @MLB @MLB will be passing out complimentary Bud Lights any minute now.

The @MLB should be ashamed of themselves.

@FoxNews @MLB will be passing out complimentary Bud Lights any minute now.

"Trump won, we don't have to do this anymore." Vice President JD Vance offers a blunt response as he jumps into the growing controversy over San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps. The players referenced Genesis 9:12-16, the passage describing God's covenant with Noah and the rainbow. After the game, MLB put the players on notice, warning them against any future unsanctioned messages. The debate has quickly expanded beyond baseball, fueling a national conversation over faith, free expression, and Pride Night traditions in professional sports.

@HawleyMO MLB will be passing out complimentary Bud Lights any minute now.

What does MLB think it’s doing penalizing players for their Christian faith? They owe us some answers. Right now.

@libsoftiktok @SFGiants @MLB MLB will be passing out complimentary Bud Lights any minute now.

Three pitchers for the @SFGiants were issued warnings from the @MLB after they wrote Bible verses on their Pride-themed caps, claiming their actions "violate our rules." The @MLB is discriminating against Christians while promoting degeneracy.

@EricLDaugh @MlB will be passing out complimentary Bud Lights any minute now.

🚨 JUST IN: The Attorney General of Florida is now launching an investigation into the MLB after they WARNED 3 Giants pitchers simply because they wore BIBLE VERSES on their "Pride Night" caps GOOD! JD VANCE: "Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore." AG UTHMEIER: "Do you practice religious discrimination in Florida, MLB? You’ll be hearing from my office soon." The verse says that the rainbow is a symbol of a covenant between God and all living creatures. WHY would they discipline that? Cut the BS! Christians can be Christians!

@SenatorLankford MLB will be passing around complimentary Bud Light any minute now.

MLB needs to fix the contradiction: a pride flag is fine, but a Bible verse gets a warning? Faith isn't a violation. Treat it that way.

@MLB And what happened after the Dylan Mulvaney debacle?

Major League Baseball is about to enter Bud Light territory. They are warning four players on the San Francisco Giants not to repeat the wearing of bible verses on their hats during a "Pride Night" celebration. But @MLB had no such issues following Colin Kaepernick in 2017.

We agree that the disrespect to the overall narrative for both of them was the point. You said in an earlier comment that "Colin did nothing wrong." Not in a legal or rule based sense, perhaps. But it was a poor choice. He was not a good enough athlete to be able to absorb the career damage that resulted from his actions. When he was released by SF, another team wouldn't sign him because a backup QB wasn't worth the circus he would bring with him.

@mediaandcomms @recklessracoonn @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee Now, just bc it's ALLOWED.... was it also DISRESPECTFUL to a specific group of being who were literally being honored at that exact moment? Yes. It was. And so is what the Giants did.

Several Giants players wrote Bible verses on their caps to respond to Pride Night. The gesture echoed a familiar pattern: making a night meant for inclusion about something else entirely. Read more for free, from @GrantBrisbee: nyti.ms/3Q23q8J

@DirtySweetStyle @recklessracoonn @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee "A gov't song..." This is a deliberate attempt to "misunderstand" my point.

@mediaandcomms @recklessracoonn @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee A gov't song being played at a private, corporate event. It's not like he was at some military funeral. It's a ball game.

@MrBison85 @RobSchneider @MLB Are you claiming the information is incorrect?

@mediaandcomms @RobSchneider @MLB You used AI to answer? Don't you have any kind of recall? Think for yourself?

@recklessracoonn @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee What was happening when Kaepernick was kneeling?

@mediaandcomms @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee Holy fucking reach 😭😭 not even a close comparison

@yorocky89 @atensnut This.

@atensnut You idiots have never explained why pride bothers y'all so much. You're openly proud to support a man who's cheated on every wife he's ever had. An actual convicted felon, and man found liable for r*pe. Oh, and he started a war. So what's the difference? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dear MLB: Nobody wants Pride.

@atensnut Hijacking the game is just fine with MLB in some cases.

@ClayTravis Stating disagreement on the field is just fine with MLB in some circumstances.

So you can be forced to wear a uniform with a values statement you disagree with in MLB, but you aren’t allowed to state your disagreement with the values? The clear solution here is just wear normal uniforms and stop pride nights. It’s counterproductive at this point.

@DanClarkSports Some non-conformity is just fine with MLB.

MLB is entering dangerous territory warning players who write Bible verses on Pride Night caps. About half of MLB players are Christian. Forcing them to wear promotional gear they don’t ideologically align with, while silencing their right to express their faith, isn't inclusion - it is forced conformity. If MLB values diversity it must extend to the religious beliefs of players.

@RepGregMurphy @MLB It depends on the message.

So how does the @MLB get away with forcing their players to wear a hat promoting one particular political viewpoint and the attacking them for expressing another? This is about baseball. Not politics. foxnews.com/outkick-sports…

@Scott_Wiener @SFGiants It is terrible when an athlete misuses their forum to attack a specific community.

The @SFGiants have a long history of supporting our large & vibrant LGBTQ community, even when it hasn’t always been popular. It’s one of the many reasons I’m proud of the team. That storied history makes it even more troubling that the Giants are now accepting ads from Chick-fil-A — a virulently homophobic business — & disturbing that some players used last night’s Giants Pride Night as an opportunity to display a bible verse about rainbows that is frequently used by right wing Christians to “take back” the rainbow from LGBTQ people. Last night wasn’t just Pride Night. It was also the 10th anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub massacre, when 49 people were mass murdered. To be clear, these players could have cited the rainbow bible verse on any of the other 364 days of the year. Instead, they chose to cite it only on Pride Night & only in connection with the rainbow Giants logo celebrating our LGBTQ community. There’s only one explanation for that choice — a choice the Giants tolerated. It’s hard to envision the Giants tolerating this kind of behavior directed at any other community. The Giants can & must do better.