Posted on 07/29/2018 7:51:15 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
ATLANTA -- Atlanta Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb apologized Sunday for a series of offensive tweets he sent as a teenager, calling them "some stupid stuff.''
The 25-year-old Newcomb spoke less than an hour after he nearly pitched a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The tweets were sent in 2011 and 2012, when Newcomb was a senior in high school.
One tweet included a racial epithet that was part of a rap lyric, and several others contained gay slurs.
"I just wanted to apologize for any insensitive material,'' Newcomb said. "It was a long time ago, six or seven years ago, saying some stupid stuff with friends.
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I would be very disruptive, because I have no tolerance being subjected to a Marxist/racist screed. It would get real ugly, real fast.
Where's rapist Willy Jeff Clinton? Shouldn't he be on your enemy list? How about Barney Frank? Al Franken?
Your enemy list is seriously lacking in diversity.
The day I retire I plan to blast email the entire corporation with a very politically incorrect critique of the whole "diversity" scam, including the hiring of unqualified, incapable quota fillers who drag down the entire corporation and put public safety at risk.
Why wait ? Corruption MUST be destroyed.
Sig heil.
The re-education camps are doing a marvelous job, Big Brother.
If everyone now has to apologize for stupid stuff they did or said as teenagers, the “Apology Tour” will never end.
This is all Billy Bean the gay former outfielder who is the MLB Vp of social responsibility. Hes doing the same thing to Trea Turner of the Nationals.
The left doesn’t allow for people to grow up and change.
They will take the moral high ground (for what reason I don’t know) and absolutely destroy someone over something that happened decades ago, all the while ignoring the current moral failings of their own.
It’s not about integrity or moral character.
It’s about political affiliation and race.
First, it was the kudzu infestation. Then someone let in the queers. (that is NOT a "homophobic slur" - they use the term all the time, as in "LBGTQ"- it is an all-inclusive term, encompassing the entire spectrum of LBGTQWERTXYZ)
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