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Polybius

(22,264 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2026, 10:26 PM 19 hrs ago

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 19 hrs ago OP

I'd terminate every single one of them SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #1

That, unfortunately.... cab67 19 hrs ago #2

I guess it would depend on their contracts, but it sounds like insubordination to me SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #3

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

That was my thought SheltieLover 18 hrs ago #7

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

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

This may be true, but... cab67 7 hrs ago #20

What if it was "Pro-Life" PR work? -NT- ruet 7 hrs ago #21

Contracts are contracts. Swallow your pride, do it, then talk about how against it you are AFTER the game AZLD4Candidate 7 hrs ago #22

It's all about the revenue though Polybius 12 hrs ago #15

If course. This is, after all, the United States of Extortion. SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #18

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

cancel the game, not the night amcgrath 18 hrs ago #6

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

That's what they did. Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #12

The Baltimore Bigots? purr-rat beauty 18 hrs ago #10

Baltimore? It's York Pennsylvania. Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #13

"...he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves." J_William_Ryan 12 hrs ago #14

Ironic to me that the team's name is the Revolution. Prof. Toru Tanaka 12 hrs ago #16

MAHA... Make America Hate Again QueerDuck 11 hrs ago #17

Too proud to show Pride. Too bigoted to show humanity. Change the name from Blue Crabs to "Crabby KKK". Wonder Why 8 hrs ago #19

Apparently it happened last year Shrek 6 hrs ago #23