SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters before the team’s Friday game in Cincinnati, which may be available to bet on w88 mobile, that he would not come out on the field for the national anthem until he feels “better about the direction of this country.”
His announcement comes after he published an essay on Friday morning about the state of the U.S. following Tuesday’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, KRON reports.
Kapler’s essay primarily focused on the national anthem, and he claimed that the country does not represent the anthem’s words. His piece was critical of the United States government, and he said he was, “not okay with the state of this country.”
He mentioned that police waited to enter the school and stop the shooter, and blocked parents who tried to do so. He also criticized politicians for not enacting stricter gun restrictions.
“We aren’t free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are more important than our children’s freedom to go to school without needing bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills,” he wrote.
Kapler stood for the national anthem before Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets, but he said in the essay that he wanted to kneel or go inside. He said he “felt like a coward” for not taking action.
“My brain said drop to a knee; my body didn’t listen,” Kapler wrote. “I wanted to walk back inside; instead I froze. I felt like a coward. I didn’t want to call attention to myself. I didn’t want to take away from the victims or their families.”
Kapler also organized a national anthem protest in 2020 in support of racial justice, when he and two players knelt for the national anthem before the first regular season game he managed as a Giant.
Kapler joins Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr as coaches who have been outspoken following the shooting. On Tuesday afternoon, Kerr gave a passionate speech about the incident and called on politicians to take action before storming off the podium.
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I fought through 3 wars only to sit back and see this???? This angers me!!
Then help make it better.
IF YOU HATE this country so much, HAND YOUR citizenship in, AND LEAVE IT!
Democrats see everything as subjective, how they feel things should be, their whole world is subjective. Not Objective.
To Democrats, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, If the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
So, he’s not satisfied with the condition of America. Does he mean he rejects the result of a rigged, stolen election? Is he dissatisfied with the price of gasoline, groceries, and inflation in the double digits? Is he angry about America being run by a criminal, corrupt, puppet with no functional brain cells? Is he unhappy about millions of illegal invaders pouring over our Southern border, and loss of our national security? Is he upset about the disaster of the withdrawal from afghanistan, and the gutting of our military? Is he irritated about the democraps march toward marxism? Is he fearful of getting on a new york city subway due to the huge increase in crime in the democrap run city? Does he want to defund the police? Is he tired of living in a country where freedom and opportunity are available for whoever seeks it, and where every downtrodden person on the planet is risking their very lives to get here?
Or is he just another empty baseball uniform with an empty head?
Very well said, almost my exact thoughts.
go play baseball in japan you clown.
NA.. China.. Since the MLB LOVES china.
Just go away. take your talents to somewhere where you’ll be appreciated…Like Cuba. They do have good baseball there, and none of that old Pesky Flag waving, anthem signing stuff.