In a highly hypocritical move designed to pander to popular opinion, MLB managers and players kneeled during the national anthem this week, supposedly to show their support for racial justice.
Among the kneelers were San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler and several Dodgers — including NL MVP Cody Bellinger and three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw.
“I wanted to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with our clear systemic racism in our country and I wanted them (players) to know that they got to make their own decisions and we would respect and support those decisions,” Kapler parroted after Monday’s game. “I wanted them to feel safe in speaking up.”
The hypocrisy is astonishing given that baseball has had a decline in the number of Black players for the last several decades, and is currently at a measly 8% of the entire MLB. Latino players comprise the greatest proportion of minority players within the MLB at around 28%.
One notable fan who is finished with MLB is President Donald Trump, who wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning: “Looking forward to live sports, but any time I witness a player kneeling during the National Anthem, a sign of great disrespect for our Country and our Flag, the game is over for me!”
It remains to be seen whether other MLB fans will put up with these hypocritical and unpatriotic displays.
Play ball. Really, JUST play ball.
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