Red Sox release Brett Netzer after hateful tweetstorm: 'I am a racist'

[CatWoman]

The Red Sox released minor leaguer and 2017 third-round pick Brett Netzer following a series of racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets, according to multiple reports. The Boston Globe reported the Red Sox confirmed the posts were Netzer’s.

Netzer, 25, targeted Red Sox executive Chaim Bloom, the LGBTQ community and black Americans, saying in one tweet: “i am a racist. i do sometimes make assumptions based on another persons [sic] race/ethnicity/culture. glad that is out of the way.”

i am a racist. i do sometimes make assumptions based on a persons race/ethnicity/culture. glad that is out of the way https://t.co/lbJUoLzQsE
— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022

After The Athletic’s Chad Jennings reported that Netzer was being released, Netzer quote-tweeted him, agreeing that he was racist and homophobic but taking issue with the characterization of him as anti-Semitic.

“[Chaim] bloom is a hypocrite and an embarrassment to any torah-following jew,” Netzer wrote.

Netzer attacked Bloom for supporting Black Lives Matter and LGBT initiatives in another tweet. He also wrote that black people should “go back to their roots and start to re-establish their true black culture.” In another tweet, he called closeted transgender people rapists.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/red-sox-release-brett-netzer-after-hateful-tweets-i-am-a-racist/

[SoonerPride]

1. He was fired by the Red Sox

but will be hired by the White Sheets


(aka Fox)

[Thomas Hurt]

2. another victim of his own inadequacies and wokeness...mostly his inadequacies.

maybe he can get a job as Tucker Carlson's gopher.

[MLAA]

3. Good.

[orwell]

4. He better throw a 105mph curveball...

...or he is radioactive toast.

Oh well, there is always a job with Faux sNewz...

[Grins]

5. Nice career you got to never have...

Your parents must be so proud!

[Aristus]

6. "go back to their roots and start to re-establish their true black culture."

I wonder what he thinks 'true black culture' is...

[brush]

7. No big lost. This loser is 25, been in minors since 2017.

If he was gonna make it to the "Show" he would've been called up already.

Now he never will.

Racists are idiots.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Outside of his sense of self-importance, truly a small man.

Wonder what happened to him, to turn out like that?