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The news here is that a “gay professional baseball player” has denounced the Tampa Bay Rays players who declined to celebrate gayness with LGBTQ uniforms, but it’s really about an establishment media outlet giving massive space to a marginal athlete who never would have gotten any attention anywhere were it not for the fact that he has taken the stunning and brave, i.e. utterly conventional and highly celebrated, step of declaring that he’s homosexual. Now he is enraged at Rays players who refuse to celebrate his lifestyle choice, and for media propagandists, that’s news.
But the far-Left’s press agents really had to beat the bushes for this one. The USA Today gay hero du jour, Bryan Ruby, may not really be a professional baseball player at all. Last year, the paper identified him, in its first story about how wonderful it was that a pro baseball player was coming out as gay, as a member of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Mavericks Independent League in Oregon. Never heard of the Mavericks Independent League? Join the club. This league is so low-level that even BaseballReference.com, which contains statistics for numerous minor leagues as well as the majors, doesn’t include it. Not only that, but this year, the Volcanoes statistics don’t include Ruby, and USA Today reported Monday that he is “taking June off before exploring his options for lacing up this summer on pro teams.”
Taking June off! Must be nice. Ruby is either so committed to his gay identity that he is willing to take the financial hit that comes from not sullying himself with mundane labor during the sacred Pride Month, or he is such a nonentity on the playing field (that is, the baseball one) that he can’t actually get a job as the professional baseball player he is billed to be, or both. In any case, none of Ruby’s former teammates on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes have been or are likely ever to be the subject of lavish profiles in USA Today, and the fact that Ruby, a ballplayer who has accomplished exactly nothing on the ballfield, has now been the focus of two such profiles is yet more testimony to the fact that news organizations today are not really news organizations at all, but propaganda organs for the hard Left.
Ruby did deliver for USA Today, if not as a baseball player, excoriating Tampa Bay Rays players Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson for declining to participate in Pride Night festivities. “It sends a very clear message,” Ruby fumed, “and that message is: LGBTQ people are not welcome here.”
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Infidel says
We should split all the leagues – MLB, NFL, NBA, et al into 2 each. One would be a woke version, where players and/or spectators would kneel, or play the Black National Anthem, have BLM zones and so on. The other would be the traditional version, where the National Anthem gets played, everybody honors the flag and anthem, and then the game gets played, and there are no political messages whatsoever
Of course, this would be a non-starter for the Left and the woke hordes, but it seems to be the cleanest way to keep all the fans: let everybody chose which league to follow
Pam Burgo says
Maybe all the players should just have a message on their sleeve as to who they are sleeping with so there is no doubt and no one can get in a tizzy about it. Good grief!
CogitoErgoSum says
Just what is it that makes a person “gay?” Isn’t the word “gay” just a euphemism for “homosexual?” Why should I celebrate homosexuality? To me it’s a total perversion of the primary purpose of sex – which is human reproduction. Okay, yes, I believe we should all love one another and, sure, that means people of the same sex should love one another also, but loving people does not require having sex with them. I can tolerate homosexuality because I think what a person does in private is none of my business but I will not celebrate sexual perversion or sex without love (lust) and I sure as hell am not going to assist anyone in the current efforts being pushed by the alphabet people towards grooming little children into homosexuality and sexual perversion. I was always tolerant of gay people in the past but I now see them in a completely different light because of their own intolerance, arrogance and willingness to bully others. I congratulate the Tampa Ray baseball players who have the courage to stand up to the LGBTQ+ ect. people who use gestapo tactics who by their own actions are earning for themselves the title of “gaystapo.”
Bud says
I think you just very clearly and succinctly stated the belief of the vast majority of Americans. Thank you.
somehistory says
!00%
Keith O says
I can’t believe that these players should be so bigoted and ignorant as to show that they have personal opinions and beliefs.
This can’t be allowed to happen, everyone has to have the same beliefs as the left or they will be cancelled.
Joe1 says
A person who is intolerant of others, is the very definition of a bigot. The gay “player” has met that definition.
OLD GUY says
Oh poor me the rest of the world won’t agree with my choices. So you are Gay I don’t give a shit, get over it.
gravenimage says
Ridiculous.