Let’s stop jumping on baseball players for their old tweets

Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Sean Newcomb was one strike away from throwing a no-hitter on Sunday.

Ultimately, he gave up a hit, but Newcomb’s near no-hitter would not end up being the headline from that outing. Instead, the media coverage was focused on the apology he issued for a series of tweets sent back in 2011 and 2012, when the 25-year-old was a freshman in college. Most of those tweets involved Newcomb using the word “fag” when referring to his friends. In one tweet he wrote, “skinny n—a, big balls,” a lyric from a Drake rap called “The Motto.” As a result of these tweets being discovered, Newcomb was forced to issue an apology and will now have to take sensitivity training, mandated by Major League Baseball.