Players on the Minor League Team the York (PA) Revolution Refuse to Wear Their Rainbow Uniforms, So the Team Cancels the Game and Forfeits

But note, the team threw the players under the bus, claiming they're not "welcoming" and "supportive" of the LGBT "community."

Minor league baseball's York Revolution in Pennsylvania declined to play its Pride Night game Thursday after players refused to wear uniforms that featured a rainbow design, team officials said.

The Revolution's game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was to have marked the team's 11th annual Pride Night, but players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves.

Thursday night's game will go down as a forfeit, the Revolution said.

"This decision was not reached lightly," the team said in a statement.

President and GM Ben Shipley said his manager told him Tuesday that fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster -- the minimum needed to fill out a lineup card -- were willing to play in Thursday night's uniforms.

Love. It. I had no idea this was such a widespread rejection of the Gay Garb.

Shipley said the discussion led to an unprecedented team meeting at which he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves.

"I'm disappointed that we're at this point, and I recognize the players' plight and their unwillingness to cross their line. I also think tolerance is not acceptance," Shipley told NBC News on Thursday.

"I was just asking for tolerance from the team, and they were unwilling to navigate that with me."

The spirit of Pride Night would have been compromised had players been forced to wear uniforms that celebrated the community, the Revolution said.

"Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game," the team said.

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Other Pride Night events are still set to go on as scheduled at the ballpark free of charge. They include music, fan batting practice and other on-the-field activities, Shipley said.

The team is set to return to action Friday against Southern Maryland.

Team officials criticized their own players for refusing to celebrate the LGBTQ community.

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The incident in York unfolded less than a week after four players with the San Francisco Giants staged a silent protest against the team's Pride Night celebration by writing Bible references on their hats.

After the Giants incident, MLB warned players not to deface their uniforms.

As mentioned, the team itself -- the urban monoculture-captured corporation -- threw the players under the bus.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

Pennsylvania minor league baseball team the York Revolution forfeited their Pride Night game tonight against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs after their players refused to wear Pride-themed rainbow jerseys.

The team criticized its own players, calling the refusal "completely inconsistent" with their vision as the "Most Welcoming Place in York." They donated $10,000 to a local LGBTQIA+ group, the Rainbow Rose Center, for the 11th annual event.

If a team demanded that all the players wear Back the Blue shirts, or White Live Matters shirts, or MAGA Baby! shirts, would the left concede that perhaps there is a freedom of conscience issue here?

No of course not. "That's different," because a leftist Karen says so.

Rob Schneider -- yes, the "makin' copies" guy -- shows almost Justine-Bateman-levels of #Basedness.

Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider

Pro Baseball players who signed a contract to play baseball and did NOT sign a contract to Promote Leftist Woke Agendas, forfeit game for not participating in Pride Night & refusing to wear ridiculous uniforms that they also did not sign up for.

Rob Schneider @RobSchneider

Dear professional baseball players,

ANY player in ANY professional LEAGUE who is FINED by their league for refusing to be FORCED to participate in WOKE LEFTIST AGENDAS, who refuses to wear ridiculous uniforms (or cleats), @TPUSA and I will PAY any and ALL of your Fines!

You signed a contract to play baseball, you didn't sign a contract to go against your deeply held Christian religious beliefs.

Baseball is our National Pastime, not Drag queen story hour.

Sincerely yours,

Rob Schneider and Turning Point USA!

Gay activists are determined to force straight people to LARP as gay. Earlier this week I linked video of a teacher being fired for forcing female students to pretend to be lesbian and kiss each other -- with the teacher grading them according to how convincing the forced sexual roleplay was.

And then they wonder why support for gays and gay marriage is plummeting.

It's because you promised us that if we allowed gay marriage, "Nothing in your lives will change!"

But we now know that was just another Gay Race Communist lie -- gay marriage is the Trojan horse for the real agenda, which is to make gays feel "safe" and "included" by forcing straights to become gay, or at least gay a few days a year. In solidarity, you understand.

I implore the gay community to rebuke their most insane activists and turn away from this path. A tiny minority cannot bully a majority as if they were masters and the majority were slaves, and if they attempt to do so, the ultimate reckoning for this lunatic crusade will be terrible.

It reminds me of that U2 song, "Pride in the Name of Love."

I hate U2 and I hate that song especially. They're the Bruce Springsteen of Ireland.

Oh did you not know they were Irish? I can understand that, they never mention it.

Bonus:

Oh, and I also forgot (I think) to point out that the media claimed that the man arrested for pulling his pud in front of women was, in fact, a "woman" jerking off in front of women.

"Nothing in your lives will change," they said.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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