Similar story came out the other day on Red Sox player J.D. Martinez having to defend an old re-tweet of his defending the second amendment. Like this guy, he had to half apologize, but not really. What he said was he didn't intend to offend anybody, but he was sticking by his position on defending the second amendment, citing his Cuban background and Castro as reasons why he supports it. I've noticed a lot of athletes getting into hot water these days over stupid things like this.
As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a player.
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