Good morning, baseball fans!
Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to an end today, which would normally mean that it’s time to share our favorite highlights of the week.
I even had an entire post already scheduled to publish today with fantastic highlights.
Unfortunately, I am a human being. And a human being in the LGBTQIA+ community, to boot. I know, it’s a pretty shitty time for us right now.
And on Friday night, several Giants players decided that the ONE night of the entire season that is dedicated to acknowledging the humanity and struggles of fans like me was something that they absolutely could not abide.
And because of that, they don’t get to have a highlight of the week this week.
You know what they do get? My indignant ire. And my commitment to not letting this go until they do something to combat the hatred of their players and the damage that they’ve caused.
I’ve had to let a lot of things go over the years. I didn’t have the mental bandwidth for the fight. But right now? Yeah, I’ve got time. So I’m not letting this one go. And we’ll be talking about this one for a hell of a lot longer than anyone will remember anything else the Giants may have done this week. Good? Bad? Doesn’t matter.
This is who they are now.
People in the LGBTQIA+ community are Giants fans just like any other Giants fans. We go to games. We cheer, we mourn, we bleed the same blood as anyone else. We pay the same amount of money to watch this team (most likely lose) on any given day of the week.
More importantly, we also deserve the same dignity and basic human decency as anyone else.
And until the Giants do something to rectify the damage that their players have done this weekend, they don’t get to move on because I have now made it my mission in life to not let them.
So buckle up, Giants fans. Because this is only just beginning.
What time do the bigoted Giants play today?
The bigoted Giants wrap up this weekend series against the Cubs this afternoon at 12:10 p.m. PT.