{"id":755677,"date":"2026-06-23T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:33:12","slug":"mlb-commissioner-blames-communication-breakdown-amid-bible-verse-cap-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755677\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB commissioner blames communication breakdown amid Bible verse cap backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">FOX Business&#8217; Brian Brenberg and contributor Tom Shillue discuss controversy in the MLB after players wore Bible verses on their caps. Commissioner Rob Manfred responds to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., stating the players were not fined or disciplined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">&#8216;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8217; discusses the MLB&#8217;s response to players wearing Bible verses on their baseball caps. Commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., explaining that the initial warning was a &#8216;routine oral warning&#8217; due to a communication lapse with the Giants organization and that players faced no penalties. FOX Business&#8217; Brian Brenberg and Fox News contributor Tom Shillue praise the players for their courage in upholding their beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX Business&#8217; Brian Brenberg and contributor Tom Shillue discuss controversy in the MLB after players wore Bible verses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,348083,39630,591,117129,85,446],"class_list":["post-755677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-mlb","tag-news-videos","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}