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Posted on 06/25/2026 3:14:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Buster Posey tried to move on from the Giants’ Pride Night controversy. Instead, his response seemed to frustrate just about everyone. The Giants president of baseball operations met with reporters Tuesday at Oracle Park and opened with a brief statement acknowledging that fans had “strong feelings” about the issue. But when follow-up questions came, Posey repeatedly shut them down.
“I’ll answer baseball questions,” Posey said. That did not go over well. The controversy began on June 12, when Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, J.T. Brubaker and Ryan Walker wrote Bible verse references on their Pride Night caps. A fourth pitcher, Sam Hentges, reportedly chose to wear the team’s standard cap instead.
MLB later issued a warning for a uniform policy violation, though commissioner Rob Manfred clarified the players were not fined, disciplined or facing future punishment. Posey said the organization had already addressed the matter and did not want to revisit it. The problem was that almost no one was satisfied with that response.
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Buster? My name is bad enough, but Buster? Must of had a rough time through school.
I looked it up. His real first name is Gerald.
MLB later issued a warning for a uniform policy violation, though commissioner Rob Manfred clarified the players were not fined, disciplined or facing future punishment.
Yeah, I'm sure there will be absolutely no "best served cold" retaliation over this. The only people in the MLB who need to be fired are the entire chain of fools who imposed this ridiculous BS.
This discussion has become a bit of a Sticky Wicket for Buster.
The Post gets it wrong. The side that is angry right now is the LGBTQ rainbow brigade and the San Francisco media (but I repeat myself). There are plenty of people (especially on Giants’ social media) - I would even say a majority - who are asking to please just play baseball and give it a rest. Religious types seem happy enough with the MLB’s response (even if it was a bit “CYA”), and definitely Posey’s recent statements.
How about all the MLB teams just drop the rainbow garbage and just play ball. Follow the Texas Rangers. No gay night.
“MLB later issued a warning for a uniform policy violation...”
The uniform determinations are part of the owners and players unions job and are defined in the rule book and the union and players agreements (contracts). If a player violates it, he signed the contract. The players in question that wrote on the caps with anything violated the rule. Other instances of warnings before were things on caps like happy mother’s day and happy birthday.
They knew they weren’t supposed to write on their caps and did it anyway. They are responsible for their actions and were warned over it. Legally they could have been fired, sent down or suspended. They violated their contract.
wy69
Players should never be forced by management to wear any political statements of any kind. That’s my opinion on it.
Mandatory participation of “Pride” nights should be outlawed.
God had good reason to smoke Sodom and Gomorrah. I can now imagine these nasty people wanting to have sex with angels
The Giants are a losing team so it can’t get any worse.
Do feel the same way about other employees who wear uniforms on their jobs?
You don’t argue that would MLB did was acceptable; what you argue is that MLB needs to lose their special privileges from the US Congress. The very existence of the MLB itself should be ruled as a restraint of trade.
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