Posted on 06/16/2026 3:35:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
Major League Baseball (MLB) has issued a warning to three Christian San Francisco Giants pitchers who inscribed a Genesis chapter 9 citation on their team’s specially issued “Pride Night” ball caps last Friday.
As it turns out, so-called “Pride Night,” which is purported to be promoting tolerance, is actually about intolerance for Christians.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communications officer told the LGBT sports site, Outsports.
Outsports suggested that MLB didn’t go far enough for fans “who wanted baseball to issue a fine for the uniform infractions.”
READ: Irony alert: Baseball players who wore Bible verses on ‘Pride’ caps accused of ‘weaponizing rainbow’
In its headline, Outsports derisively said that the players had “defaced” their “pride” hats when they “scrawled” Bible verses on them.
The Giants team office also appeared to distance itself from the Christian pitchers, issuing a statement published by the San Francisco Standard, accusing the three men of having “caused pain and anger”:
The San Francisco Giants are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ+ community. Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations. We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that. Those choices do not change our organization’s commitment to inclusion, belonging, and creating a welcoming environment for all. We remain grateful to our fans, partners, employees, players, and coaches who help make Pride Night a meaningful celebration.
Vice President JD Vance criticized MLB’s reaction. “Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore,” he posted to X.
Pressure had been mounting on MLB to somehow punish the three Giants players.
Following the Pride Night game, Outsports published a commentary lamenting, “Three SF Giants pitchers disgraced themselves at the team’s Pride Night, weaponizing the Pride rainbow and attacking the LGBTQ community.”
Outsports’ co-founder Cyd Zigler went further: “As a middle finger to the LGBTQ community the size of Coit Tower, they wrote a Bible verse on their caps – drenching it with hate.”
Another sports site, The Athletic, which is owned by the New York Times, claimed that the players who resisted celebrating “pride” during Friday night’s game exemplified a “tone-deaf” response that “missed the point” of Pride Night.
Fansided’s Mark Powell accused the pitchers of hiding behind a “2,000-year-old book.”
The Genesis passage recounts God’s declaration that the rainbow is His sign of justice, faithfulness, and mercy toward humanity. It was never intended to be used to promote sexual deviancy.
Giants pitcher Landen Roupp took the lion’s share of the heat for inscribing Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride Night cap.
“There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God,” said Roupp after the game.
“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that He makes to us, you know, His faithfulness and His mercy,” Roupp explained to reporters. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”
Genesis 9:12-16 recounts God’s covenant with Noah and his descendants:
God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature – every mortal being – so that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy every mortal being. When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature – every mortal being that is on earth.
Another Giants pitcher, JT Brubaker, wrote Genesis 9:13-15 on his hat and Ryan Walker also reportedly wrote a Bible verse on his Pride Night ball cap.
A fourth pitcher, Sam Hentges, refused to wear the “pride” hat.
Comedian Rob Schneider tweeted his support of the Christian athletes on X:
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Vice President JD Vance criticized MLB’s reaction. “Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore,” he posted to X.
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Three SF Giants pitchers disgraced themselves at the team’s Pride Night, weaponizing the Pride rainbow and attacking the LGBTQ community.”
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Ah, no. The homosexuals have that completely backwards.
So much for tolerance. I give you the LGBT movement as mandated religion
PS: Enjoy This on Graham Platner.
I’m Graham. I am like you, just with a Nazi SS Concentration Camp Guard Tattoo.
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“...they wrote a Bible verse on their caps – drenching it with hate.”
Lift high His royal banner, it must not suffer loss!
Homosexuality is now the established religion and all must worship homosexuals.
Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet need to look for a new friend.
They dont have to do it anymore but they WANT to do it.
Cowards.
Re: my #12
The Giants are the cowards, not the players.
“Be proud of when a sodomite shoves his penis in to the anus of another man. Or else.” - MLB.
GD degenerates.
“”Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued.””
Everyone but the three Giant pitchers? Why is everything upside down in today’s world?
They are anti Christian.
MLB supports a sinful and immoral and disgusting lifestyle at the expense of Christianity.
MLB is apposed to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
They were forced to wear the pride edition of the hat logo. If they had been given the option to wear the normal edition there probably would have been no writing added. Some LA players wore the standard hats on their pride night.
Tolerance, love is love, coexist, pride, pride, pride.
God has a lot of dire words for the angel of light and his pride.
No writing, only multi colors. If one side refuses to read the bible and only uses makeup, then neither side can use words.
I would just wear a batting helmet the whole night.
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