Actor and comedian Rob Schneider made an appearance on Fox News for an interview with Kaleigh McEnany to discuss his recent X post where he offered to pay the fines incurred by several Major League Baseball pitchers for writing Bible verses on their Pride Night caps. “I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform,” Schneider wrote on X. “@MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN.”
The MLB also warned San Francisco Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker that their behavior will not be tolerated in the future. The pitchers wrote the verses on their caps during a Pride Night game against the Chicago Cubs. Pat Courtney, the chief communications officer for the league, released a statement on the incident saying that, “the writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”
As of this writing, no fines have been issued against the pitchers, but Schneider’s post was preemptive in nature, stating that if that course of action should be taken, he would help the three men defend their faith by paying the fines. During the interview, McEnany asked Schneider what prompted him to offer his assistance to the players.
“You have offered to pay the fines of these MLB players should they be fined. What motivated that?” McEnany asked. “Well, Kaleigh, why are they trying to make baseball gay?” Schneider fired off with his trademark wit. “We have enough gay sports. We have the WNBA, we have figure skating. I mean, cornhole is on ESPN. Every mascot is gay. I mean, that’s where the whole furry thing, I think, came from.”
“Not one-hundred percent sure about that. Baseball already has all the gay music. ‘We are the Champions.’ ‘The YMCA,’ I mean, at what point is it enough? That’s what I’m saying,” Schneider continued. “And Rob, you know, to each their own. People can do what they want to do, live how they want to live. You live in America,” McEnany responded.
“But if you’re going to force someone to wear a Pride Night hat, and in response, they want to put a Bible verse on there saying what the rainbow means to them, I’m not sure why that’s controversial. I want to ask you specifically about hypocrisy here, because the MLB says these are uniform rules, but apparently they’re selective when they enforce them,” she continued.
“There have been other instances of players writing, for instance, they wrote the number 51 on their hats in the 2025 World Series. In 2021, they wrote SOS Cuba, and I’m wondering if those players got warnings?” McEnany asked the comedian. Schneider’s response to the host’s question concerning hypocrisy could not have been more perfect.
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“Well, let me tell you, they’re all for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Unless you have a diversity of opinion, then you’re not included. So, I mean, baseball players signed up to play baseball. What part of their contract said, ‘Oh, you also have to promote our leftist ideology that may be against your religious beliefs.'” Schneider explained.
“They fired the guy from, this is my favorite part, they fired the guy, which is that Jaden Ivy, the NBA did, and the NBA had every player had to have on their uniform ‘Experience Abu Dhabi,’ where homosexuality is illegal,” Schneider concluded. Roupp was asked about the Bible passage after the game, where he said it was not an attack, but was about “God’s covenant and a promise that He makes to us — His faithfulness and His mercy.”
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