IT'S OVER for PRIDE NIGHT at MLB games!

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[00:00:13]>> Well, guys, it may be game over for pride nights in Major League Baseball.

[00:00:19]Folks, MLB, they have crossed a huge line, folks.

[00:00:25]Now, these pride nights, man, have been going on in Major League Baseball for a while.

[00:00:30]But now, when you actually try to implement players into your agenda and have them wearing ball caps and they really don't want to wear them and they post Bible verses on it, you're going on the attack now.

[00:00:45]And guess what, folks? MLB is catching a whole bunch of heat.

[00:00:51]I think it's just about game over for pride night.

[00:00:55]It may not be immediate, folks, but I think you're going to see a change.

[00:00:59]I think that, um, you're going to see these teams not force players to actually wear the hats at first and then, as more backlash continues to come in, these pride nights are going to go away.

[00:01:12]I I think people have reached a tipping point to where they don't want this stuff in their sports. They just don't.

[00:01:20]And eventually, you know, these uh sports leagues, they're going to like they're going to have to learn the hard way.

[00:01:25]They really are.

[00:01:27]We know that, um, the San San Francisco Giants, they had these pride hats for players.

[00:01:36]And there was actually, I believe, like three players that wrote like Bible verses on the hats and the Giants decide not to back their players.

[00:01:47]They offered an apology to the alphabet mafia.

[00:01:52]And Major League Baseball, this is where I I they made a great mistake.

[00:01:57]They went on the attack and sent a warning to these Christian players about pretty much defacing their hats.

[00:02:06]You cannot make this up.

[00:02:08]And now you got Major League Baseball players coming out and supporting the players.

[00:02:14]You got former NFL players coming out and supporting the players. And now you even have politicians going after Major League Baseball, folks.

[00:02:25]I think MLB made a great mistake.

[00:02:28]It's just about to be game over for these Pride nights.

[00:02:32]It really is. So, let's go ahead and dive into this, guys. Here we go.

[00:02:39]So, right over here on The Spun, several athletes defending Major League Baseball players for writing on Pride Night hats.

[00:02:49]They're defending them.

[00:02:51]Major League Baseball issued a stern warning to the San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on the team's Pride hat Pride Night hats over the weekend.

[00:03:04]Three San Francisco pitchers received an official warning from Major League Baseball for writing Bible verses on their rainbow-themed Pride Night hats over the weekend.

[00:03:15]MLB warned the players that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated moving forward.

[00:03:22]You know what I would actually do, guys?

[00:03:23]If um they told me, "Hey, you're going to wear a Pride hat?"

[00:03:28]I'd tell them, "No.

[00:03:30]I'm not going to wear a hat at all.

[00:03:33]I'm actually going to go out there on the baseball diamond without a hat to really make a statement that um so you can really see that I'm not actually supporting the rainbow hats.

[00:03:45]That's me.

[00:03:46]But these players decided to actually write Bible verses on the hats.

[00:03:51]And MLB didn't like it.

[00:03:54]Quote, "The writing on the cap violates our rules." This is what Major League Baseball says.

[00:04:00]"And consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations."

[00:04:05]Pat Courtney, MLB's uh chief communications officer, told The Athletic in a statement that Outsports first reported.

[00:04:14]And we know about um Landon Roupp and um the other players as well. He wrote uh Genesis uh 9 9:16 on his hat.

[00:04:22]And uh also uh JT uh Brubaker and uh Ryan Walker, they also as well had Bible verses on their hats.

[00:04:32]And uh of course you know, the alphabet mafia, the left-wing media, they're trying to paint these players as bigots because they refuse to bend the knee to the alphabet mafia.

[00:04:46]But look at this right here.

[00:04:48]Multiple athletes speak out in support of Giants players.

[00:04:52]Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Ryan Thompson is among those defending the San Francisco Giants pitchers.

[00:04:59]Quote, "A lot of the hate comes from perceived negativity," Thompson said.

[00:05:05]"I think that there's a perceived negativity uh with this uh stuff of like, okay, Landon Roupp wore the verse on his hat.

[00:05:14]That means he's anti something.

[00:05:17]That doesn't mean that, right? It means that he's pro something.

[00:05:22]So the rainbow means something to him," Thompson continued. "It means he believes in the uh Noatic Covenant being something that's special to us as Christians, right? That means that no matter how bad we possibly could be, no matter how much we reject God, that he will never again flood the earth.

[00:05:42]That's really cool.

[00:05:43]That's really special.

[00:05:45]Yeah, shout out to him.

[00:05:47]Meanwhile, former Minnesota Vikings captain Jack Brewer is urging the Giants players to not back down.

[00:05:55]Quote, my message to all of you San Francisco Giants players is we got your back.

[00:06:00]Brewer told Fox News Digital, keep on standing, keep on speaking out. As they find you, we'll buy your jerseys, buy more jerseys.

[00:06:10]Yeah. And also, um, Vice President J.D.

[00:06:13]Vance spoke out as well.

[00:06:15]And he writes, Trump won so don't so we don't have to, um, do this anymore.

[00:06:21]Yeah. One of the reasons why our President Trump actually won, guys, is because wokeness got out of control.

[00:06:28]It got way out of control, man, and the American people like, nah, this is too much.

[00:06:32]Now, over here, remember, June 1st, guys, Major League Baseball could not wait to change their logo to the pride logo.

[00:06:44]But, look at this here. Clay Travis, just now on Clay and Buck, Josh Hawley says if Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred finds any players for writing Bible verses on pride uniforms, he will subpoena Manfred to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is and examine why MLB has an antitrust exemption worth billions.

[00:07:08]Look at this right here.

[00:07:10]The MLB is facing an investigation from Florida's Attorney General after they cracked down on the Christian faith when players put a Bible verse on the LGBT pride caps.

[00:07:24]MLB is facing a huge backlash.

[00:07:26]Uh, Senator Josh Hawley, um, has written a, uh, letter to MLB saying that these players are being subjected to religious discrimination after MLB players on San Francisco Giants were criticized by MLB for writing Bible verses on on their team-issued Pride Night hats during Friday's game against the Cubs. No more anti-Christian discrimination.

[00:07:49]Yeah. So, let's go ahead and check out this Fox News clip, guys.

[00:07:55]Here we go.

[00:07:56]>> is against expressing their Christian faith. It comes after several San Francisco Giants players wrote Bible verses on their caps during a Pride Night promotion last week.

[00:08:08]Lucas Tomlinson straightens this out for us, I think. Good morning, Lucas.

[00:08:12]>> Good morning, Bill. Senator Josh Hawley has written a letter to Major League Baseball saying that these players are being subjected to religious discrimination after Major League Baseball players on the San Francisco Giants were criticized by Major League Baseball for writing Bible verses on their team-issued Pride Night hats during Friday night's game against the Chicago Cubs, including Landon Roupp, a 27-year-old right-hander from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, who started and pitched 4 and 2/3 innings with Genesis chapter 9 verses 12 through 16 written on his cap next to the rainbow-colored team logo, as you can see there. After the game, Roupp said there's no hate at all. It's just what I stand for and what I stand on. I believe in God. Two relievers also made appearances in the game with Bible verses on their hats.

[00:08:53]Another took the mound without his Pride Night cap and said wearing the traditional orange lettering. The pitchers have a supporter in Vice President Shad White Vance, who posted on X, quote, "Trump won. We don't have to do this anymore." Now, San Francisco first added Pride Night uniforms in 2021.

[00:09:10]After the game, the Giants issued a statement apologizing to the LGBTQ+ community. Major League Baseball issued a statement saying the writing on the caps violates our rules and consistent with normal practice. We have warned the players about future violations.

[00:09:25]>> I think people are tired of corporations, whether they're, you know, in the business space or in the sports setting, forcing ideology on players in things like rainbow symbols on uniforms, as they were on some of the hats. And so, the fact that players are going to react to that should be expected and it should be honored.

[00:09:44]>> Now, meanwhile here in Washington, build the Nationals are four games over 500 for the first time since winning the World Series.

[00:09:51]>> Yeah, you guys saw it right there. Yeah, it's game over, man. It is game over. I believe that the heat is going to continue to be on on Major League Baseball.

[00:10:02]MLB really should actually come out and apologize to these players because the heat is not going away. It's growing bigger and bigger and bigger by the day.

[00:10:14]Oh, and I just saw this, too, guys.

[00:10:15]Check this out.

[00:10:17]Missouri Attorney General Katherine Hanaway sent a letter to MLB demanding not to discipline players for writing Bible verses on their caps and threatens to investigate them for First Amendment violations.

[00:10:30]Uh she writes, "Missouri will not tolerate any threat to punish a player for exercising his sincerely held religious or moral beliefs." Yeah. So, more and more, guys, everybody's coming out against MLB.

[00:10:44]They crossed the line and it's gotten to a point now where even politicians have to come out and put MLB on notice.

[00:10:53]So, that's just my thoughts on this. What do you guys think of this?

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