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Vance swings back at MLB over reaction to Giants players’ Pride Night caps

June 17, 2026 | | Print Article

Vice President JD Vance swung back at Major League Baseball (MLB) after the league’s warning to San Francisco Giants players who displayed Bible verses on their caps during the team’s recent “Pride Night” game.

At Friday night’s home game against the Chicago Cubs, the Bay Area pro baseball franchise held its tribute to the very special demographic but the celebration was spoiled when it was pointed out that pitchers JT Brubaker Landen Roupp and Ryan Walker were wearing caps with references to the holy verses along with the required rainbow version of the team logo, which of course was whipped up into a major controversy with the help of media activists.

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Among the outlets denouncing the players’ blasphemy against the false religion was the hometown San Francisco Chronicle, which accused them of defacing their uniforms, alienating fans and the city, and “hijacking the event for their own purposes.”

Moving swiftly to react to the uproar from leftists and the chronically bitchy bullies of the LGBTQ lobby, MLB put the players on notice with a statement: “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”

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In a Tuesday post to X, the vice president reacted to the league’s threats with a reminder that the MLB is living in the past and that the era of peak “woke” is over.

“Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore,” Vance wrote.

MLB followed up its initial statement with a “non-disciplinary” disciplinary threat.

“To be clear, this routine verbal warning not to wear the hat in future games is not disciplinary and had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message,” the league told the New York Times’ The Athletic. “We respect players’ right to free expression. However, writing of any kind, with any message, is prohibited per Major League Baseball’s uniform regulations, which provides in part that, ‘(a) player may not write, attach, affix, embroider or otherwise display nicknames or messages on apparel or playing equipment…’

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Other conservatives reacted to MLB’s public scolding of the Giants players over the expression of their real religious beliefs.

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Republican Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is taking legal action against the NFL over racial discrimination, issued his own warning to the pro baseball league, which has two teams in the Sunshine State.

“Do you practice religious discrimination in Florida, @MLB?” Uthmeier asked. “You’ll be hearing from my office soon.”

“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” Roupp told reporters when asked about the message on his cap. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”

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