🚨PRIDE MONTH🚨
The Texas Rangers are the ONLY MLB team not acknowledging “Pride Month.”
The Rangers are again not hosting an LGBT night event.
Instead, on June 18, they will be hosting a Faith and Family Night.
According to their website, the event will feature “personal testimonies from Rangers players Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, Cody Bradford, Jacob Latz, Jalen Beeks, and others, sharing how faith impacts their lives both on and off the field.”
POWERFUL: Dallas #Cowboys wide receiver Ryan Flournoy was only 5-foot-3 in high school, and his coach told him he was too small to play college football.
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“My freshman year of high school, I was 5'3''. 99 pounds.”
“We had this meeting, and the coach asked the whole room, 'Does anybody want to play college football?' Of course, everybody raised their hand. He pointed me out and was like, 'But your side is unlikely.' I'm not, you know, being harsh on you. I’m just being realistic. My heart went to my stomach. For that, like, moment forward, like, I'm like, 'Nobody can tell me what I can't do because I'm the only person on that team in the field.'“
Fast forward a decade, and Flourney is playing in the #NFL for an iconic franchise.
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Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A.
If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.