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MLB quietly tells teams to drop use of Pride uniforms
Washington Examiner ^ | 6/14/2023 | Heather Hamilton

Posted on 06/17/2023 11:07:46 AM PDT by simpson96

Major League Baseball has quietly ordered its teams not to wear any Pride uniforms throughout their Pride events.

The decision comes amid several companies and organizations facing consumer pushback for promoting LGBT acceptance.

News of the MLB directive gained recognition last week when the Tampa Bay Rays reportedly announced its Pride festivities would have a different look, with players not sporting jerseys and hats featuring Pride rainbow patches and logos.

The league reportedly announced its decision at an owners meeting in February.

The decision follows Rays players declining to wear Pride jerseys in 2022, along with many NHL teams opting out of Pride night festivities as players resisted wearing themed jerseys.

Despite the MLB directive, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants have proceeded with wearing their Pride uniform patches and logos due to a reported agreement.

The Texas Rangers are the only MLB team not to hold a Pride-themed game for the past 20 years, opting to instead focus on being "more inclusive in hiring practices."

"I think that’s more meaningful than just saying, ‘OK, we had a Pride Night,'” Rangers COO Neil Leibman told the Dallas Morning News in 2020.

The Dodgers have drawn widespread criticism for their choice to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a self-described "queer and trans nuns” group, at the team’s Pride Night festivities this Friday.

This week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the Dodgers’ decision “blasphemy.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; dodgers; homosexualagenda; losangeles; losangelesdodgers; mlb; pride; sports
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To: simpson96

That, and the insults to veterans and other patriots. is why I haven’t watched a MLB game for several years and don’t plan to resume.


21 posted on 06/17/2023 11:50:00 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: simpson96

Too late you bunch of degenerates. MLB will never get a penny from me, I will never watch their games, and I will do what I can to make sure I never buy anything from any of their advertisers and sponsors. To hell with them and the sodomites.


22 posted on 06/17/2023 11:50:34 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: dfwgator

Both of those teams are run by California dumbfu*k liberals who couldn’t care less about defaming a religion.


23 posted on 06/17/2023 11:50:36 AM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: simpson96

Good start. Now drop the whole pride event nonsense completely.

Baseball has nothing to do with faggotry and fetishes. Get that depravity out of our faces.

I don’t care what consenting adults do in their private lives. But stop constantly trying to make us pay attention to it.


24 posted on 06/17/2023 11:54:00 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: simpson96

MLB doesn’t need those uniforms to keep away fans. Between taking a knee and a dozen other things they’re on the Bud lite path. As a lifelong fan I’ve boycotted them for the past 3 years. I’m in my 70s


25 posted on 06/17/2023 12:00:12 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: oh8eleven

Yeah the Mick Yogi Whitey and the rest were my heroes as a kid. I Refuse to watch anymore


26 posted on 06/17/2023 12:02:06 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: simpson96

The normal majority is sick of Big Homo trying to jam their agenda down out throats. Going after our kids with FBI acting as their Stasi to intimidate parents to shut up and get in line was the final straw. It’s not just people are frustrated - they are. It’s that the normals have woken up to the dangers of the coup being executed against them and they are finally pushing back. Soccer moms tolerance has it’s limits and when they finally realize they have been scammed they don’t just flip - they flip out. As any guy with lip stick stains on his collar will attest. They are not just fighting back to the Democrat agenda - they are breaking up


27 posted on 06/17/2023 12:02:30 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: packagingguy

Well they have given these creeps over two weeks of this BS so seems like they won to me. Vets get maybe one day. MLB is dead to me like the others.


28 posted on 06/17/2023 12:06:48 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: simpson96

Does not matter what the MLB does, quietly or otherwise. We stopped paying attention, participating in MLB after the last, ridiculous strike. When kneeling wokeness arrived, we ceased watching any highlights, reviews, whatever.

Like the FBI, most major sports will need significant makeovers before we would even consider watching.
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29 posted on 06/17/2023 12:20:32 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: simpson96
I will not watch pro sports until teams, leagues and players drop all the bLM and faggot crap. They have to clearly and repeatedly state that bLM is racist. They have to clearly and repeatedly state that faggots, lesbos and gender deniers are not supported or promoted by them in any way. (They have to use the exact words: faggots, lesbos and gender deniers.) That aligns with my and many Americans’ views. I don’t want to see virtue signaling, flag waving, Clydesdales, cammo, or any other obviously patronizing messages. Get to the point. Sports need to be freak free. That will convince me they are serious.

Oh, one other thing, when it comes to the NFL, no women refs, coaches, and announcers. I might as well say players too.

30 posted on 06/17/2023 12:33:43 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: simpson96

e-bay also promoting it with option to donate to such causes.


31 posted on 06/17/2023 12:36:46 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: simpson96

I have no respect for any MLB player wearing Satanic symbols, this being one. No God-worshipper would do it.


32 posted on 06/17/2023 12:43:58 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: packagingguy

Yep

What will the San Diego Queens do now?


33 posted on 06/17/2023 1:06:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: aquila48

Hope no one is fooled by Target nor A-B again


34 posted on 06/17/2023 1:07:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Larry Lucido; Kenny Bania

Fresh strawberries!!


35 posted on 06/17/2023 1:08:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Agreed 👍👍

No support for the godless reprobate agenda


36 posted on 06/17/2023 1:09:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: simpson96

Interesting clip at this link at about the 2:17 mark of the video shows the dodger manager wearing a rainbow-logo cap, talking mealy-mouthed mush out of both sides of his mouth.

37 posted on 06/17/2023 1:26:47 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: simpson96

Where is the flag for straight sex?


38 posted on 06/17/2023 1:57:31 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: oh8eleven

I will never buy Nike again.


39 posted on 06/17/2023 2:21:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: I want the USA back

Joe Dimaggio was my idol.

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And Stan the Man was mine. We are old timers, for sure!


40 posted on 06/17/2023 3:56:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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