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The backlash to SF Giants players’ Pride Night protest isn’t going away
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 15, 2026 | By Alex Simon

Posted on 06/15/2026 9:11:31 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The Pride Night backlash isn’t going away anytime soon for the San Francisco Giants. The Giants held their annual celebration of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community on Friday night, with the team wearing special hats with a rainbow-colored “SF” logo as part of the evening. But four of the five pitchers the Giants used in Friday’s loss to the Cubs protested the commemoration, with three pitchers — Landon Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker — writing a Bible verse on their Pride Night hats, while Sam Hentges elected to not wear the rainbow-logo hat at all.

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Even local politicians condemned the displays. Scott Wiener, a state senator representing San Francisco and one of two candidates running this fall to replace Nancy Pelosi's seat in the House of Representatives, criticized not just the four players, but the team overall. “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,” Wiener wrote on social media. “It’s hard to envision the Giants tolerating this kind of behavior directed at any other community. The Giants can & must do better.”


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Hey Scott Weiner you whining pervert. The San Francisco Hunky Jesus event is held every year on Easter Sunday

1 posted on 06/15/2026 9:11:31 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Guts. Well done to the Giants Three.


2 posted on 06/15/2026 9:14:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth. ©️)
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To: artichokegrower

Good to know there are at least a few Americans on the SF Giants...


3 posted on 06/15/2026 9:15:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: artichokegrower

Oh so the lil pervert is upset that not everyone agrees with their disgusting deviant lifestyle what a shame what a pity guess what its called its a FREE COUNTRY get used to it


4 posted on 06/15/2026 9:16:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: artichokegrower

The Rainbow Mafia is the most intolerant people in America.


5 posted on 06/15/2026 9:17:42 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: artichokegrower

Sorry Scott. Ppl just can’t get over the ick factor when it comes to gays & trannies. 🤣


6 posted on 06/15/2026 9:18:27 PM PDT by Prince of Space (I cannot hate the media enough!)
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To: artichokegrower

The players need to put away their greed and just say they won’t be playing anymore to promote sexual deviancy and mental health problems.


7 posted on 06/15/2026 9:29:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (No Kings. No Fuhrers either. Tell the lobster heads to keep Adolph the Nazi out of Congress!!!)
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To: clintonh8r
Guts. Well done to the Giants Three.

Yes, and they did this in the midst of Sodom. They have my utmost respect.

8 posted on 06/15/2026 9:31:37 PM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: artichokegrower

Exactly - they think it is funny to openly mock Christian beliefs, but apparently that is only permitted to go one-way. Screw that.


9 posted on 06/15/2026 9:33:57 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: bray

They know they are one sex tryst from a life of medical misery and early death. That will make one very insistent on their wishes.


10 posted on 06/15/2026 9:35:27 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: artichokegrower

Easy for me to say this but I would encourage those Giants players by reminding them that Jesus suffered literal backlashes. Hang in there, Giants.


11 posted on 06/15/2026 10:08:44 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: artichokegrower
San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community

The "Community" is really dropping the ball!

The LGBTQ+ "Community" has left out so many other groups.

Here is the most current, "correct" version

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

If you think I am kidding, here is a person who has so adopted and practiced the new, more woke acronym, it just rolls off her tongue.

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA

12 posted on 06/15/2026 10:25:20 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: artichokegrower

“ Even local politicians condemned the displays.”

Hypocrisy much? We have to tolerate their 24x7 display of perversions.


13 posted on 06/15/2026 10:58:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: artichokegrower

Admiration for those pitchers who stood for their beliefs against perversion.


14 posted on 06/15/2026 11:02:31 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: gildafarrell

Why is Pride the only one of the Seven Deadly Sins to get a special night? I am looking forward to Gluttony Night at the ballpark. And Sloth Night could be fun: No special uniforms required, just don’t wash the players’ uniforms for a month or so. Fans come as you are, and there will be a special mascot. We don’t need a Greed Night, as I have seen the ticket and concession prices.


15 posted on 06/15/2026 11:19:44 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: bray

The GAYSTOPO!


16 posted on 06/15/2026 11:35:13 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

The plus is pedophilia.


17 posted on 06/16/2026 1:11:22 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Oh so the lil pervert is upset that not everyone agrees with their disgusting deviant lifestyle

It's beyond disagreeing with the lifestyle; it's that they refused to worship the lifestyle.

18 posted on 06/16/2026 1:15:31 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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