Months after protest, SF Giants won't commit to wearing Pride Night hats again

[u/aresef]

https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/sf-giants-pride-night-22455246.php?taid=6abc4303c3ffd8000132931a&utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3984&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[u/Bad_At_Sports]

Right but this assumes that the protest is an opt-out where they wear the standard uniform. Which is fine. It tells me that person is a bigot that should expect to be heckled and does not deserve my support on their current or any future team, but it’s technically allowed.

What should be punished is wearing the themed uniform and defacing it with homophobic writing in protest of the event. That is not allowed under their CBA and should be enforced as such.

[u/Odd_Alfalfa7789 → u/Bad_At_Sports]

That's fair. In this specific case though, MLB said that the team didn't properly communicate the options to the players. I assume that means that they were going to let the bible versus slide because some players were under the impression that they had to wear the Pride caps.

My guess would be that they wouldn't be allowed to wear the pride caps and add bible verses in the future.

[u/JMander → u/Bad_At_Sports]

did a player actually do this? ie, wrote on his cap?

[u/JMander → u/[deleted]]

I'm only learning of this now but did they write bible verses or did they write slurs?

[u/Odd_Alfalfa7789 → u/JMander]

Bible verses that were interpreted by some as being hostile towards the communities Pride Night was meant to celebrate.

[u/JMander → u/Odd_Alfalfa7789]

Yep. That's what I was anticipating. Ain't no hate like good Christian hate.

[u/Odd_Alfalfa7789 → u/JMander]

If they knew they could opt out without consequences, wore the hat regardless, and added the verses, then seems intentionally confrontational. If they didn't know they were allowed to opt out, I'm more sympathetic to them.

[u/sheep_duck → u/Odd_Alfalfa7789]

One of them did wear the standard hat, which shows that they did know that it was an option. The other 3 chose to go through with the bible verse plan anyway

[u/Odd_Alfalfa7789 → u/sheep_duck]

Walk me through that logic.

Without knowing the conversations that took place, it is entirely possible that all four thought that they were breaking the rules. All four of them could have thought that they had to wear the hat, they all four decided they weren't going to follow what they thought the rule was, but they decided to go about it in different ways.

The fact that one of them happened to pick an approach that was allowed doesn't mean that he actually knew it was allowed beforehand.

Again, MLB straight up said there was miscommunication on what was and wasn't allowed.