This is the way, sportsballers π
This is quite possibly the gayest forfeit in the history of sports (not including soccer).
From this very serious article by NBC News:
Minor league baseball's York Revolution declined to play its Pride Night game on Thursday and opted instead to forfeit after players refused to wear uniforms that featured a rainbow design, team officials said.
The Revolution's game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was going to mark the Pennsylvania team's 11th Annual Pride Night, but players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves.
No joke, the team put out a statement about this gayness. They put the jerseys atop the page so you could see how gay they were.
Here's the club:
It is with great disappointment that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our 11th Annual Pride Night on Thursday, June 18th. Most significantly, the scheduled game between York and Southern Maryland will not be played and Pride will still be hosted as a free admission event. Everyone's tickets for the game on Thursday will be treated as a rainout that can be redeemed for any future game.
This decision was not reached lightly. Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game.
Ladies and gents, this is not a joke: They forfeited the baseball game and will still have their gay party Thursday night at WellSpan Park in York, PA.
Real news that should be satire!
More from the gay statement:
To be clear; this action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision as the Most Welcoming Place in York. As a small token of our regret for the last-minute change of plans and support for our LGBTQIA+ representing partners we are making a $10,000 donation to the Rainbow Rose Center to support and further their work in making sure the York community is as inclusive as we strive to make WellSpan Park in York, Pennsylvania.
This begs the question: Do gay people even need a baseball game to be played in order to celebrate their sex lives? Because this event sounds way more like a gay Pride event now that the sport is canceled.
Seriously, baseball could learn something from this one!
Here's the GM:
Anyhow, I am absolutely enthralled by the history of this baseball team. And I simply cannot understand how a team with this history I'm about to steal from Wikipedia and show you ended up forfeiting a baseball game because players won't wear gay jerseys.
The York White Roses ... played for 85 years in York from 1884 to 1969. The White Roses were bitter rivals of the Lancaster Red Roses baseball team of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, county seat and largest town in adjacent Lancaster County to the east. Both teams were named after the two warring 15th-century royal houses and political factions from the historic cities of York and Lancaster in the Kingdom of England's 32-years-long civil war in the Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1487).
The city waited almost forty years for a new team to fill the baseball-sized hole in their hearts, and when they came back they made their theme American.
In 2012, the Revolution franchise/team introduced a new brand and logo to also emphasize York's contributions to American history in the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century, with a secondary emphasis on patriotism. The southeast Pennsylvania region is home to many industrial manufacturers such as Harley-Davidson, Stauffer's, and York International/Johnson Controls.
A team with such history as this canceling a baseball game because players won't wear gay rainbow jerseys is just a shame.
It's still funny, but it's a shame.
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