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Toxic Tweets Keep ex-San Francisco Giant Aubrey Huff Off Guest List for World Series Reunion

“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.”

Trump Showered With Boos at Game 5 of World Series, Fans Chant ‘Lock Him Up’

For over a century every president has thrown out a ceremonial first pitch during their time in office, either for Opening Day, the All-Star Game or the World Series. Watching the president throwing out the first pitch is as American as apple pie or baseball, but leave it to Trump to disregard precedent and tradition.

Trump notified Major League Baseball (MLB) that he wasn’t going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch or make other public appearance, ostensibly because he didn’t want to be a distraction. The real reason may be that he didn’t want to expose himself to ridicule and humiliation.

Another reason why Trump may have refused to throw out the ceremonial first pitch is that his tiny hand has trouble handling a baseball. Pick up a golf ball no problem, throw a baseball and look like an uncoordinated fool, no way.

Trump may have tried to keep a low profile to spare himself from the crowd’s wrath, but he was greeted with a thunderous chorus of boos when he was introduced after the third inning during the Nationals’ salute to veterans. As the next inning began, fans shouted “lock him up”, illustrative of the fact that Trump wasn’t in Kansas anymore or at a Trump rally where the chant “lock her up” is ubiquitous, but in the nation’s capital where citizens are cognizant that he’s the real villain.

Trump and wife Melania sat in the Washington Suite and were joined by sycophants the likes of Lindsey Graham, Matt Gaetz and Mark Meadows. I’m sure these weasels tried to comfort the stable genius by telling him that MLB and the Nationals were part of a conspiracy to allow only Democrats into the game in order to embarrass him.

I hope this will be the last appearance that Trump makes in the World Series, baseball is supposed to be a temporary respite from real life, and the president screws up everything he takes a part in.