{"id":720838,"date":"2023-05-30T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=720838"},"modified":"2023-06-09T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:23:21","slug":"mlb-star-apologizes-after-sharing-video-endorsing-anti-lgbtq-boycotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/mlb\/mlb-star-apologizes-after-sharing-video-endorsing-anti-lgbtq-boycotts","title":{"rendered":"MLB Star Apologizes After Sharing Video Endorsing Anti-LGBTQ+ Boycotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass is backpedaling after sharing an Instagram video calling on Christians to boycott Target and Bud Light for their &#8220;demonic&#8221; Pride campaigns this year. In a brief statement on Tuesday, Bass said, &#8220;I recognize yesterday I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine. I am truly sorry for that.&#8221; He added that he&#8217;d spoken with his teammates about the situation. &#8220;I apologized [to] them, and as of right now I am using the Blue Jays&#8217; resources to better educate myself to make better decisions moving forward,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The ballpark is for everybody. We include all fans at the ballpark. We want to welcome everybody. That&#8217;s all I have to say.&#8221; The Blue Jays said that &#8220;individual player sentiments are not representative of the club&#8217;s beliefs&#8221; in a statement to the Toronto Star. The video, shared on Bass&#8217; Instagram Story on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass is backpedaling after sharing an Instagram video calling on Christians to boycott Target and Bud Light for their &#8220;demonic&#8221; Pride campaigns this year. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}