[yankeetravels]

I need somewhere to rant about this topic and I haven't seen a thread created. So, I figure why not here. Gentleman, any American sports fan knows that the sports are all trying to become more PC, but we have honestly reached a new level.

For the baseball fans, I'm sure you've seen what's been dominating the headlines off of the diamond. Recently, a few younger baseball players (all mid 20's players) have had tweets that they posted from 6-7 years ago come out and create a PR mess for the MLB. The tweets apparently included "racist" and "homophobic" slurs.



Shocker of the decade? The person that exposed him on twitter was a female editor that has socialist and feminist tags in her twitter profile.

The worst part of all of this was this came out the day Newcomb nearly pitched a no-hitter and had the best game of his career. He should've been celebrating, instead he had to deal with the aftermath of this bullshit.

In the tweet comments, one guy thankfully had the balls to call her out on getting off her high horse and accused her of living in a glass house and accurately said that she was looking for a clickbait story to make a name for herself after this came up:

https://thebiglead.com/2018/07/18/josh-h...omophobic/

I admit, this is probably the worst of the bunch of players that got called out. But I feel like this is more of a case of people not understanding context of words, sarcasm, and how guys talk to each other. Seriously, some of the "offensive" tweets compiled were just about the guy saying he has a big dick and fucking women, pretty normal things for guys to talk about. He went wrong by using the n-word as a white guy.

I've seen some stupid shit from people in high school and college on the internet, the guy that called him out was a 16-year old. While I feel the guy thought he was doing the morally right thing, I think the 16-year old boy is a little naive about the world we live in. The dude better make sure he goes to lengths to avoid having anything on the internet that could take him down too if he's gonna virtue signal others because we all know he will be a target due to his gender and age.

This is Trea Turner, the other player that got called out:

https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/local/t...65-8204150

I'm tired of this in the west. I really am. And it's coming into sports in droves now. I think the bigger red flag is that now people are being condemned for tweets they made six years ago for anything they might've had as a joke or something out of context. I feel bad for younger people. Luckily I had about 16 years of growing up where every part of my life wasn't on record.

Now, there's no privacy and no mercy for out of context or not the smartest things to be said YEARS ago. Like seriously, the generation growing up has no privacy and could be taken down at any time. I just find it amazing no one has addressed that these are tweets players made in HIGH SCHOOL and not while they were affiliated with the MLB.

It's fucking ridiculous to me and I don't like the direction we're going about handling the internet and the way we talk to each other. Welcome to the full-on PC Police era gentlemen.