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Polybius

(22,299 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2026, 10:26 PM Jun 18

Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear rainbows [View all]

Source: NBC News

The Revolution’s game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was to have marked the team’s 11th annual Pride Night, but players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves.

“This decision was not reached lightly,” the team said in a statement.

President and GM Ben Shipley said his manager told him Tuesday that fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster — the minimum needed to fill out a lineup card — were willing to play in Thursday night’s uniforms.

Shipley said the discussion led to an unprecedented team meeting at which he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minor-league-baseball-team-cancels-pride-night-game-players-refuse-wea-rcna350698

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Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear rainbows [View all] Polybius Jun 18 OP

I'd terminate every single one of them SheltieLover Jun 18 #1

That, unfortunately.... cab67 Jun 18 #2

I guess it would depend on their contracts, but it sounds like insubordination to me SheltieLover Jun 18 #3

Nope. They violated their contract. All professional sports contracts state players must do PR work AZLD4Candidate Jun 18 #4

That was my thought SheltieLover Jun 18 #7

All professional sports contract have clauses about uniforms and doing promotional work for the team AZLD4Candidate Jun 18 #8

I would expect such clauses in sports contracts SheltieLover Jun 18 #9

This may be true, but... cab67 Jun 19 #20

What if it was "Pro-Life" PR work? -NT- ruet Jun 19 #21

Contracts are contracts. Swallow your pride, do it, then talk about how against it you are AFTER the game AZLD4Candidate Jun 19 #22

It's all about the revenue though Polybius Jun 19 #15

If course. This is, after all, the United States of Extortion. SheltieLover Jun 19 #18

Employees need to do what they are told. MichMan Jun 18 #5

cancel the game, not the night amcgrath Jun 18 #6

Hire a band and have a concert instead of the game. Then bench the homophobic players on a rotating MLAA Jun 18 #11

That's what they did. Wiz Imp Jun 18 #12

The Baltimore Bigots? purr-rat beauty Jun 18 #10

Baltimore? It's York Pennsylvania. Wiz Imp Jun 19 #13

"...he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves." J_William_Ryan Jun 19 #14

Ironic to me that the team's name is the Revolution. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 19 #16

MAHA... Make America Hate Again QueerDuck Jun 19 #17

Too proud to show Pride. Too bigoted to show humanity. Change the name from Blue Crabs to "Crabby KKK". Wonder Why Jun 19 #19

Apparently it happened last year Shrek Jun 19 #23