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cab67

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2. That, unfortunately....

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 10:31 PM

23 hrs ago

...would probably draw enough lawsuits to bankrupt the team.

They forfeited. They should also forfeit whatever pay they'd have gotten for the game. That's probably the best we can hope for.

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Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear rainbows [View all] Polybius 23 hrs ago OP

I'd terminate every single one of them SheltieLover 23 hrs ago #1

That, unfortunately.... cab67 23 hrs ago #2

I guess it would depend on their contracts, but it sounds like insubordination to me SheltieLover 23 hrs ago #3

Nope. They violated their contract. All professional sports contracts state players must do PR work AZLD4Candidate 23 hrs ago #4

That was my thought SheltieLover 23 hrs ago #7

All professional sports contract have clauses about uniforms and doing promotional work for the team AZLD4Candidate 22 hrs ago #8

I would expect such clauses in sports contracts SheltieLover 22 hrs ago #9

This may be true, but... cab67 12 hrs ago #20

What if it was "Pro-Life" PR work? -NT- ruet 11 hrs ago #21

Contracts are contracts. Swallow your pride, do it, then talk about how against it you are AFTER the game AZLD4Candidate 11 hrs ago #22

It's all about the revenue though Polybius 17 hrs ago #15

If course. This is, after all, the United States of Extortion. SheltieLover 15 hrs ago #18

Employees need to do what they are told. MichMan 23 hrs ago #5

cancel the game, not the night amcgrath 23 hrs ago #6

Hire a band and have a concert instead of the game. Then bench the homophobic players on a rotating MLAA 22 hrs ago #11

That's what they did. Wiz Imp 22 hrs ago #12

The Baltimore Bigots? purr-rat beauty 22 hrs ago #10

Baltimore? It's York Pennsylvania. Wiz Imp 22 hrs ago #13

"...he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves." J_William_Ryan 17 hrs ago #14

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

MAHA... Make America Hate Again QueerDuck 16 hrs ago #17

Too proud to show Pride. Too bigoted to show humanity. Change the name from Blue Crabs to "Crabby KKK". Wonder Why 13 hrs ago #19

Apparently it happened last year Shrek 11 hrs ago #23