There are few things in this world more sanctimonious and hypocritical than left-wing sportswriters getting on their faux moral high horse. College professors spend less time lecturing than a typical sportswriter creating fake controversies to criticize.
Fake controversies that always tilt against one specific viewpoint and ideology that they are too blinded to understand.
The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee being a prime example of this phenomenon; someone who has spent zero time even attempting to understand different viewpoints. Different religions. Different perspectives. All while performatively lecturing and demanding everyone agree with his viewpoints.
Brisbee is a fan of the San Francisco Giants, and a far-left sportswriter who focuses on baseball. Aren’t they all. Unsurprisingly, he wrote an article for his left-wing sports website criticizing the few Giants players who made quiet public statements during the team’s “Pride Night.”
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Some either wrote Bible verses on their caps, with one pitcher, Sam Hentges, refusing to wear the rainbow and black-colored hat at all. For most sane sports fans, that’s a reasonable form of “protest.” These players have their specific religious views, and have chosen to make those views known. They didn’t harm anyone, they didn’t call for anyone to be harmed, or excluded, they put Bible verses on their hats, or wore the same hat that they wear 161 games per year.
For Brisbee, however? This was an outrage. Because he doesn’t agree with them.
“… This was another tone-deaf response to what should have been a moment for community unity,” he wrote. “They made the night about ‘us versus them.’ That’s the only thing they could see.”
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This is, ironically, exactly what people like Brisbee do. They make statements that must be accepted, or create exclusion.
He continues by saying that these games “reduce suffering in a very real way.” Which is, of course, absurd.
“Some of that progress was made when events like Pride Night became commonplace, reminding the world of a community’s existence, strength and humanity. Events like Pride Night reduce suffering in a very real way. To suggest they don’t is to ignore the humanity of the individuals involved.”
That is…insane. It’s beyond insane, it’s idiotic to a degree that defies comprehension. People “suffer” from things every day. Giants fans lose their jobs, heck, Giants players lose their jobs, every single day. Is it a baseball team’s responsibility to coddle everyone who’s ever faced difficulty in their lives? Should the Giants have nights to recognize those who’ve lost loved ones? Or failed a class? Or got into a severe car crash and dealt with a lengthy recovery?
Those people are all worthy of “support” and “humanity” and “love,” yet somehow they can attend Giants games without requiring a night devoted exclusively to reducing their suffering. Do these same suffering individuals not go to any of the other Giants home games where the team doesn’t wear “Pride” hats? Are they not welcome at the stadium? Of course not. Christians are often not celebrated on a specific night, are they not welcome? Do the Giants not care about their suffering?
Brisbee, though, can’t defend Pride Night as a supposedly non-political event without making it about “suffering,” which makes his arguments and defenses immediately absurd.
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Not to mention that it’s obvious Brisbee would never level these same criticisms at say, a Muslim baseball player who refused to wear the Pride hat. Just the Christian players. Nor would he support if non-Christian players were made to wear hats with symbolism that differed from their views.
A quick search of Brisbee’s writing history shows no criticism of the Washington Nationals for one of their employees proudly admitting that the organization wouldn’t feature pitcher Trevor Williams on the team’s social media accounts because he criticized the Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring a drag queen group that mocks Christians. Nor did Brisbee seem to care about that embarrassment, even though it offended millions of people and demonized and excluded others. A cause he’s now so passionate about.
Landon Roupp, one of the protesting players, said this after the game, “There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God.” Imagine believing that this message is so destructive to grown adult baseball fans that they simply can’t handle it. In this free country, those like Brisbee want to compel speech from those with deeply held religious beliefs. There’s nothing more anti-American and unsupportive than that.
“It is a choice to ignore that on a night dedicated to people who need others on their side. Do better. That’s the only thing we’re all supposed to do around here, anyway. Do better,” he lectures.
One could ask Brisbee to do the same. Do better to accept those with different views. Do better to understand that not everyone agrees with him. Do better to be a good and kind human that accepts and tolerates people whose religious beliefs conflict with his ideology. But of course, he’s not capable of doing better in that direction, because the “tolerant” hypocritical sportswriter is the most exclusionary.
