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Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Anthony Bass will participate in the ceremonial first pitch for Pride Weekend, days after reposting an anti-LGBTQ video on Instagram.

Bass, 35, who was booed by his own fans in his first appearance on the mound last week after promoting the video, will catch Friday nights pitch from leZlie Lee Kam, a longtime Toronto-area activist, according to the Toronto Sun.

Bass reposted a video that praised the boycotting of Bud Light and Target for their measures supporting the LGBTQ community. The video referred to selling Pride-themed merchandise as "evil" and "demonic," according to ESPN.com.

On Thursday, the pitcher told reporters before the teams final game in a series at Houston that the video reflected my [Christian] beliefs, but that he has had a productive meeting with Sherwin Modeste, the executive director of Pride Toronto.

The video itself, obviously, I took it down, Bass said, according to The Athletic. I just felt like it was too much of a distraction, right? But I stand by my personal beliefs and everyones entitled to their personal beliefs, right? But also I mean no harm toward any groups of people. And I felt like taking that down the second time was the right thing to do and not being a distraction. As a team, our job is to win baseball games. And thats my focus.

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I don't even get how a grown ass adult could be so insecure in 2023 that they gotta hate on randos in the LGBT community.

Christ had nothing bad to say about homosexuality and hung out with sex workers.

Good.

As a Jays fan, fuck this guy.

Good fuck him. Hope he eats a line drive.

Sounds like he's got a lot of fans who are better people than him.

They cut him yesterday even after forcing him to do that pathetic humiliation ritual where he begged for the press's forgiveness lmao

ThePrinceFish posted...

They cut him yesterday even after forcing him to do that pathetic humiliation ritual where he begged for the press's forgiveness lmao

DAMN.

ZannoL posted...

But also I mean no harm toward any groups of people

Sure he doesn't

Hes already been DFAd. Apparently he wasnt good enough for the Jays to justify having his bigotry around. Sucks to suck.

FunWithAFryPan posted...

Hes already been DFAd. Apparently he wasnt good enough for the Jays to justify having his bigotry around. Sucks to suck.

Nice, good on the Jays.

ThePrinceFish posted...

They cut him yesterday even after forcing him to do that pathetic humiliation ritual where he begged for the press's forgiveness lmao

Nothing of value was lost, he was still doing that "I don't mean any harm to anybody but I still stand by my beliefs... EVERYBODY'S ENTITLED TO THEIR BELIEFS, M I RITE!?" Well, uh... if your beliefs are that LGBT people are demonic and evil and you're just trying to obfuscate that by making it about the merch...

Fuck around and find out, though he'll probably get a new job whining on Fox News or go into politics.

mercurydude posted...

Nothing of value was lost, he was still doing that "I don't mean any harm to anybody but I still stand by my beliefs... EVERYBODY'S ENTITLED TO THEIR BELIEFS, M I RITE!?" Well, uh... if your beliefs are that LGBT people are demonic and evil and you're just trying to obfuscate that by making it about the merch...

Fuck around and find out, though he'll probably get a new job whining on Fox News or go into politics.

Most right wingers think he's a loser and a coward for his "pls don't fire me" statement that failed.

People need to stop using their religion to justify their bigotry.

Just own up to being a bigot.

how stupid do you have to be to think going "well i just believe in god" is a going to be a good enough excuse for calling gay people demonic in 2023

Hiding behind religion or its just an opinion doesnt suddenly make it not bigotry. No tolerance for hateful bigotry and prejudicial discrimination!

"I mean nothing bad towards any group of people, I just feel like certain people shouldn't be treated like human beings with the same rights and privileges as me. That's not so bad, see? See guys? Right? I'm not such a bad guy, right? Right guys? Right?"

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There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

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I admittedly thought that as well.

ThePrinceFish posted...

There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

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I dont get why people use God to hate gays.

The bible tells you to love everyone and let God sort it out.

I wish we booed that Rays team where pretty much their whole bullpen did this shit

Also Bass got DFAd over this too

ThePrinceFish posted...

There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

You post like someone that doesn't have any idea of what they're talking about.

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He's about to get suspended at the very least.

mercurydude posted...

He's about to get suspended at the very least.

Yeah, I imagine it's very painful for you people to be exposed to a very moderate right wing position with how off the rails you are. Pay no attention to the school board protests, Target and Bud Light market drops, everyone who doesn't line up with you on gay children is a radical.

I went in this topic expecting the exact opposite thing

mercurydude posted...

He's about to get suspended at the very least.

Hes not even on the team now

ThePrinceFish posted...

There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

You gotta know the idea of toddler clothes being "tuck-friendly" was an obvious hoax, right? But you hate LGBTQ people so why would you care about accuracy.

Motherfucker called LGBTQ people evil and demonic. Fuck him. You're damn right no one wants to forgive him. He meant he said.

ThePrinceFish posted...

Yeah, I imagine it's very painful for you people to be exposed to a very moderate right wing position with how off the rails you are. Pay no attention to the school board protests, Target and Bud Light market drops, everyone who doesn't line up with you on gay children is a radical.

So what you're saying is that the "moderate" right wing position is that LGBTQ should be neither seen nor heard in public because "think of the children"? I'd hate to see what radical right-wing beliefs are to you? Executing LGBTQ people on sight?

I'm sure you feel quite the smug satisfaction in the backlash against companies advertising to LGBTQ people. "Haha the free market doesn't like LGBTQ people either. I'm vindicated!" Enjoy the suspension.

ThePrinceFish posted...

Yeah, I imagine it's very painful for you people to be exposed to a very moderate right wing position with how off the rails you are. Pay no attention to the school board protests, Target and Bud Light market drops, everyone who doesn't line up with you on gay children is a radical.

Oh, I understand very well how far this country's right wing has gone down the fascist shitter, that even you with your "Let's blood libel the queers to try to get them killed" takes that would probably even make Rick Santorum blush, are considered a moderate.

But that's very much a YOU problem.

I'm a gay man and before that I was a gay child. I was neither "evil" or a "demon," and anyone who tells a child that or disowns them... well, if there's a Hell, there's a special place for such "people" there.

ThePrinceFish posted...

There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

Hey look everyone. The anti vaxxer has more than one shitty opinion.

Please do your best to contain your surprise.

the very moderate position of considering gay people to be evil creatures from a dimension ruled by fire monsters

His production on the field made this an easy decision for Toronto. Let's how this goes when a productive, big name pitcher does this

My favorite part is how prince considers himself a moderate as if he wasnt about as deep right as you can get

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Same.

@ThePrinceFish

What he said and what you've said in this topic can only be considered moderate from the perspective of a fascist who believes not genociding LGBT people or "eliminating them from public life" is a compromise and a concession. That fits very well with your posting history. People like you lose and always lose unless actual Nazis take over, and even then, you eventually burn yourselves out once everyone gets their heads out of their asses to oppose you and you turn on yourselves.

You make millions of dollars to play a game for a few months per year. Is it really that hard to read the room and not get yourself canceled? If I had an opportunity like that, I wouldnt even have social media or anything.

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Expected the same. Maybe there's hope for this country yet

ThePrinceFish posted...

There's nothing bigoted about calling out your overextension into LGBTQ+ friendly toddler gear. Thus why he was wrong to apologize and why everyone on both sides thinks he sucks for different reasons. You because of your imaginary belief that not agreeing with tuck friendly children's gear is hatred, normal people because they watched him bend the knee to people who would never ever forgive him.

Imagine being someone who just said this.

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Won't lie came in thinking the same.

a-c-a-b posted...

Good.

As a Jays fan, fuck this guy.

Also as a Jays fan, fuck this guy. Congrats on your DFA, idiot.

ThePrinceFish posted...

They cut him yesterday even after forcing him to do that pathetic humiliation ritual where he begged for the press's forgiveness lmao

Good. go fasc lose cash

Payzmaykr posted...

You make millions of dollars to play a game for a few months per year. Is it really that hard to read the room and not get yourself canceled? If I had an opportunity like that, I wouldnt even have social media or anything.

Like every other modern Christian, hes completely mistaken, misguided and ignorant, thinking that social media is the next great Crusade.

Zeeak4444 posted...

My favorite part is how prince considers himself a moderate as if he wasnt about as deep right as you can get

I am not a moderate, I am about as deep right as it gets. But what I posted in this topic was absolutely a moderate opinion. I know it can be hard to fairly judge such things when the board declared the twitch dude who tweeted "leave the little kids alone" to be a right wing extremist worthy of cancellation.