Retired Major League Baseball player Aubrey Huff learned that he will not be included in the San Francisco Giants’ plans to celebrate the anniversary of the team’s 2010 World Series Championship, and he has a theory as to why.
The team decided to exclude Huff, 43, over “multiple comments” on social media that it described as unacceptable and antithesis to “the values of our organization,” according to a statement.
In response, Huff released his own statement claiming Giants CEO Larry Baer told him he wasn’t invited to the celebration because “the board didn’t approve of my Twitter posts, and my political support of Donald Trump.” He said the issue is all “politics” and called the situation “very hypocritical” because Baer was placed on temporary leave last year after video was captured of him shoving his wife to the ground as they fought over a cellphone in public.
“To the Giants board members who seem to think every Giants fan is a Liberal, they aren’t. I have had thousands of die hard Giants fans reach out to me on my social media platforms to support me,” he continued. “We live in a country that is under attack. Society is desperately trying to take away our 1st Amendment, our freedom of speech, and our freedom of political association.”
My response to @SFGiants
@mlb @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/tDs8L8kGNi
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) February 18, 2020
The two-time World Series champion gained media attention in November when he posted a photo of him holding shooting targets riddled with bullet holes beside a caption saying he was training his sons “on how to use a gun in the unlikely event @BernieSanders beats @realDonaldTrump in 2020.” The post went viral, and a number of people accused him of inciting violence.
