Sane Thoughts on SF Giants Pride Controversy

Sports Media Can't See How MLB Keeps Creating Pride Night Problems

Quoting diligent media reporter Steve Berman at The Athletic:

After three San Francisco Giants pitchers appeared in Friday’s game with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps, Major League Baseball issued a warning that similar behavior will not be tolerated.

“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 Athletic in a statement that Outsports first reported.

As I’ve written about, this non-alignment issue on Pride is a recent problem for baseball. This specific situation is a mess, and you can see how, even if the mess was easily avoidable, it was also inevitable. Having started a 2021 tradition of Pride-themed jerseys, it would be unimaginable for the San Francisco Giants to stop the practice, even in the face of indications that many MLB players dislike getting dressed up as Pride mascots.