“When the San Francisco Giants mark the anniversary of their 2010 World Series win this summer, former first baseman Aubrey Huff won’t be there, the team said Monday.
Huff, 43, isn’t invited to the celebration because of controversial statements he has posted online, the Giants said in a statement Monday.
‘Aubrey has made multiple comments on social media that are unacceptable and run counter to the values of our organization,’ the team said.”
NBC News
An evangelical pastor that I know who uses his Facebook page to troll liberals by posting toxic tweets in support of Trump defended his offensive social media persona by explaining that his online posts were an expression of his individual personality and not his position as a minister.
I’m sorry but you can’t divorce your social media profile from your position in your community, whether you’re a minister, teacher, politician or janitor.
Aubrey Huff may be a talented baseball player, but his Twitter feed is full of sexist, misogynist and xenophobic tweets, and the Giants baseball team is doing the right thing by banning him from a ceremony marking the anniversary of their 2010 World Series victory.
San Francisco is a city that celebrates diversity, it welcomes gays and lesbians, immigrants, minorities and people from all over the world with open arms. The San Francisco Giants organization mirrors the diversity and inclusiveness of the City by the Bay, and I applaud them for cutting ties with the toxic Huff.
In case you think the Giants overreacted here’s just a taste of his divisive tweets:
“I’ve never understood as a man why you would date, or marry a single mother if you’re single with no kids of your own.
Seems to me he doesn’t feel he has options or doesn’t value himself as a man.
I’d feel like I was a backup plan helping raise another man’s kids.”
In November, he tweeted a picture of a gun range with the caption Getting my boys trained up on how to use a gun in the unlikely event that Bernie Sanders beats Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
In January, Huff tweeted about taking a flight to Iran to “kidnap about 10” women to “bring them back here as they fan us and feed us grapes, amongst other things.”