Posted on 05/28/2022 7:21:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan
San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters prior to his team’s Friday night game against the Cincinnati Reds that he will not be taking the field for the national anthem and will not be doing so until he feels better about the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting that occurred earlier this week.
Journalist Andrew Baggerly tweeted, “Gabe Kapler told reporters in Cincinnati that he doesn’t plan on coming out for the national anthem and that will be his plan going forward ‘until I feel better about the direction of our country.’”
Kapler, who has been the Giants’ manager since 2019, also published an online essay explaining his decision Friday afternoon.
“When I was the same age as the children in Uvalde, my father taught me to stand for the pledge of allegiance when I believed my country was representing its people well or to protest and stay seated when it wasn’t,” Kapler explained. “I don’t believe it is representing us well right now.”
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That’s ok. I boycotted MLB years ago for being overly woke.
What a special guy. To think that I should be alive to witness such virtue. Whoa.
What a flipping idiot!
He probably voted for Biden. Does he like the direction Biden is leading us now? That will never be discussed on the alphabet networks or social media.
Meanwhile, SF slides further into sh$thole status due to your Party.
Must be something in the water in SF...Probably coming from all the free drugs they give out, that ends up in the feces that litter their streets...
Up your nose with a rubber hose, Mr. Kotter.
Good catch
Hey Gabe, patriotism isn’t a ‘feeling’; it’s an obligation for citizens.
I wonder what the Fans will think of his position.
Terrific. While America is honoring those that died so Kapler could express his opinion, the guy is hiding.
Who cares about this closeted gay attention ho.
San Francisco? Giants? ROTFLMAO!!!
Giant street turds, maybe.
This idiotic clown is totally irrelevant.
Ditto. Couple years ago.
No. One. Cares. Kapler moron.
No doubt he voted for the party responsible for the “direction of America.”
Yep. Talk is cheap! He just wants attention.
Well, when you live in the Bay Area, the contest is always on to out-woke your peers...the Warriors coach signaled HIS virtue this week, so clearly the Giants manager had to up his game.
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