All Yankees and Nationals Players and Coaches Take a Knee Before National Anthem Opening Night

Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/24/2020 | Cassandra Fairbanks

[SeekAndFind]

All players and coaches on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight.

Thursday was the first night of Major League Baseball season, which began nearly 15 weeks later than scheduled due to the coronavirus.

All players and coaches on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight

@MarkZuckerman

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 23, 2020

Players from both teams kneel together in unity before tonight’s National Anthem. #OpeningDay #NYYforNY pic.twitter.com/ptW2FgfzUe

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 23, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci also embarrassingly threw the ceremonial first pitch in an empty Nationals Stadium.

Fauci finally flattened the curve pic.twitter.com/I0zUwbl6OH

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) July 23, 2020

The ridiculous display comes the day after the Red Sox unveiled a massive 250 foot billboard outside Fenway Park in honor of the violent Marxist movement.

The Boston Red Sox have converted the 252 feet long by 20 feet tall billboard outside Fenway Park into a Black Lives Matter mural overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike. pic.twitter.com/i5mKyrbr39

— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) July 22, 2020

#BLACKLIVESMATTER pic.twitter.com/bnHZuyo6Qs

— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 23, 2020

The Hill reports that “Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy has been outspoken on the issue of social injustice since the mass protests swept the country.”

“Please know we stand with you,” Kennedy wrote in a statement on the team’s website under the title, “Social Justice, Equity and Inclusion.”

“Silence in the face of injustice is unacceptable,” he added.

Players from the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds have already taken a knee during the anthem, as well as the Giants manager Gabe Kapler — the first manager or head coach from any sport to do so.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I am officially done with MLB since they went BLM.

[shelterguy]

All kneeling to honor a career criminal who died of a drug overdose. Ain’t this a great country?

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Stay down! Stay down!”

[Drango]

They have the right to kneel, I have the right not to watch.

[Ingtar]

The two MLB teams I most despise. Hopefully, I can still watch college sports...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good bye baseball

[SMARTY]

Do the bleachers look empty?

[Sans-Culotte]

Did they stay on their knee(s) for the anthem itself?

[SeekAndFind]

Re: Hopefully, I can still watch college sports...

I’m afraid it’s going to be WORSE when it comes to college sports. Our colleges are the hot bed of HATE AMERICA ideology.

[nd76]

I used to like the elder Mr. Lerner, the owner of the Nationals; he was a major donor at the school I attended in Washington in the late 1970s (George Washington U. law school).

I doubt that I will ever buy another ticket to the Washington Nationals.

[UB355]

bye bye MLB

[MinorityRepublican]

Did they stay on their knee(s) for the anthem itself?

They stood up for the Nthem.

[DoubleNickle]

They did not — they played an audio recording of John Lewis during the kneeling part and then they all stood (as far as I could see) for the anthem.

[stanne]

It is getting away from them that the anthem, honoring the flag, Stands for the constitution, which does not stand for racism. It stands for the opposite. Equality for all

That is the main argument. It is between the US and misinformed ignoramuses who are actually doing the important work of useful idiots

Godell could have nipped this in the bud. But he is a quisling so he did not

Now it’s out of hand.

Baseball players are ruining a lot here for no good reason. A lot of history, tradition and culture.

Shame on them.

I refuse to pay any attention to them until they apologize to this country.

[laweeks]

Don’t watch them anymore

[stanne]

“ they all stood (as far as I could see) for the anthem.”

They need to make very clear their position.

[Sicon]

They’d better get used to those empty stands.

Pro sports in this country are done, they just don’t know it yet.

[wny]

pathetic

[rktman]

Well at least the fans got to se................ Oh. I guess not so much. Was fauci the only attendee with his wife and pal? Or was that a different game.