Left-handed pitcher Sam Hentges simply refused to wear the specialty cap and put on his usual headgear for the game. But he didn\u2019t draw as much attention as a few of his teammates did.<\/p>\n
Landen Roupp, the starting pitcher, and relievers J.T. Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore the rainbow cap but inscribed Bible verses on them. Roupp and Walker wrote \u201cGen. 9:12-16\u201d on theirs, while Brubaker penned \u201cGenesis 9:13-15\u201d on his.<\/p>\n
The inscription sent a clear message that, if the players were going to wear a rainbow symbol on their clothing, people should know that the rainbow means something different to them.<\/p>\n
Genesis 9:12-16 is the conclusion of the story of Noah\u2019s ark. In it, God tells Noah that the rainbow will be the sign of the covenant between God and the entire world. Verse 14 reads, \u201cWhen I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds,I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time that big leaguers have refused to don LGBTQ+ symbols that conflict with their beliefs about gender and sexuality. In 2025, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw had a Genesis-inscribed hat on for that year\u2019s Pride Night. And earlier last week, Jake Treinen, another Dodgers pitcher, wore<\/a> his regular hat for the 2026 Pride Night game.<\/p>\n Yet, for some reason, the actions of the Giants players seem to have drawn the ire of the left. It\u2019s probably partially because they did it in the heart of uber-liberal San Francisco.<\/p>\n But another cause for the left\u2019s outrage is likely that it wasn\u2019t just a single player resisting; it was four players presenting a united front against the woke bullies. Liberals like to pretend that any resistance to their ideological or policy positions is simply that of isolated cranks. Once people start banding together to say \u201cNo,\u201d however, the left must spring into action to demonize them.<\/p>\n That task fell to Grant Brisbee of The Athletic, the sports journalism arm of The New York Times. Like the now-defunct ESPN the Magazine, which I have described elsewhere<\/a> as \u201cThe Nation in Under Armour,\u201d The Athletic goes heavy on the politics and light on the runs batted in. That blatant left-wing political bent was on full display again in Brisbee\u2019s attack on the Giants players.<\/p>\n In his article<\/a> titled \u201cGiants pitchers\u2019 Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they\u2019ve missed the point,\u201d Brisbee claimed the Giants players made a \u201ctone-deaf response to what should have been a moment for community unity.\u201d For Brisbee, refusing to wear the Pride caps was an intentional effort on the part of the players to make the night about \u201cus versus them.\u201d<\/p>\n Brisbee\u2019s long rant was about how \u201cLGBTQIA+\u201d (yes, he\u2019s still doing all the letters) individuals are prone to being told they are \u201cwithout value.\u201d They are \u201clikelier to be abused, to self-harm, to get kicked out of their homes, to be bullied, to be assaulted\u201d because \u201csociety\u201d doesn\u2019t \u201caccept them,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n For Brisbee, the refusal to wear the symbol of an ideology that does not fit with common sense or biblical teachings amounts to \u201cmissing the point.\u201d<\/p>\n What the Giants players did was to make Pride Night \u201cabout something else,\u201d Brisbee pouted. He wasn\u2019t sure if the players were making it about \u201cyourself, say, or the idea that some people aren\u2019t as worthy of recognition or support,\u201d but he knew that they were indeed the bad guys.<\/p>\n If you want to read prose full of bland clich\u00e9s and gross dishonesty, you can do no better than Brisbee\u2019s article. \u201cDig deeper, my dude,\u201d intones the sportswriter, \u201cDig a lot deeper,\u201d with yet another implication that the players are \u201cagainst\u201d somebody. He ends with even more of the sloganeering of the High Woke period: \u201cDo better. That\u2019s the only thing we\u2019re all supposed to do around here, anyway. Do better.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the problem: Americans aren\u2019t buying the kind of guilt trip Brisbee is selling anymore. Just because someone does not agree with some people\u2019s sexual behavior or confusion about their gender doesn\u2019t mean he or she is \u201cagainst\u201d them.<\/p>\n In fact, the people who have the most genuine compassion for the adherents of LGBTQ+ ideology are those who oppose it because they understand how damaging it is. It is those who seek to protect children from life-altering transgender surgeries and drug regimens and those who \u201caffirm\u201d the reality of biological sex who show the truest \u201csupport\u201d for individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.<\/p>\n The attempt to claim that anyone who doesn\u2019t submit to the left\u2019s secular religion is refusing \u201cunity\u201d or \u201ccommunity\u201d is a crock. The woke mob are the ones trying to bully people and exclude them simply for having a differing opinion. They operate from the spurious basis that Americans who don\u2019t agree with the \u201cLGBTQIA+\u201d philosophy are people who deny other people\u2019s human dignity, that they are motivated by \u201chate.\u201d Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n The Giants players threw the woke establishment a curveball. Now, that establishment is throwing tantrums and yelling that the players hate them\u2014and, implicitly, that they should be exiled from the society that the wokesters are still claiming to rule over.<\/p>\n Major League Baseball (MLB) itself responded to the actions with a warning<\/a> to the players who wrote on their hats about affixing any kind of \u201cnicknames or messages on apparel or playing equipment.\u201d While MLB attempted to say this was a content-neutral rule, most people aren\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n Senator Josh Hawley wrote<\/a> to MLB, pointing out that the league in 2020 put up political slogans everywhere, creating patches to be sewn on uniforms that read \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and \u201cUnited For Change.\u201d Not only that, but the league \u201csuspended its own equipment rules so that players could display progressive political slogans on their cleats.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawley made an oblique reference to another scandal of discrimination against Trevor Williams of the Washington Nationals. In a hidden camera investigation<\/a>, the team\u2019s Director of Community Relations boasted about discriminating against the \u201csuper Christian-Catholic\u201d pitcher in terms of social media promotion. Even worse, the employee said that someone in the Nationals operation searches fans\u2019 Google histories.<\/p>\n Sorry, \u201cmy dudes.\u201d MLB and the woke journalists need to know that this phase of American history is over. Hawley is demanding answers. Other officials are more concrete about what they will do. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted<\/a> on X: \u201cDo you practice religious discrimination in Florida, @MLB<\/a>? You\u2019ll be hearing from my office soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Americans will no longer cower and kowtow to people who want to ridicule, bully, \u201ccancel,\u201d and ultimately exclude them in the name of \u201cinclusion.\u201d They have already struck out.<\/p>\n
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