If there’s one thing people should have learned by now, it’s that when you anger the woke mob, apologizing is the worst possible thing to do. It’ll alienate your supporters and the woke mob will still wan toto destroy you. Furthermore, it’ll smell weakness and use the apology you made to show that you admit to having done something wrong.
Such is the lesson Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass should have remembered before he apologized for reposting, on his Instagram story, a video making the Biblical case for boycotting Bud Light and Target. Rather than accept his apology and move on, the team cut him anyway.
In his apology, Bass made the mistake, in this graceless modern age, of admitting that he did something wrong by posting the video about what the Bible says, saying, “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. And I am truly sorry for that.”
Continuing, he added that he apologized to the team and was going “to better educate” himself on making decisions in the future, presumably meaning he’d try to not offend the left too much even if that conflicted with his Christian faith. “I just spoke with my teammates and shared with them my actions yesterday. I apologized with [sic] them, and as of right now I am using the Blue Jays’ resources to better educate myself to make better decisions moving forward,” he said.
Bass then pushed the “inclusion” message at the end of his apology video, saying, “The ballpark is for everybody. We include all fans at the ballpark. We want to welcome everybody. That’s all I have to say.”
But then he turned back toward Christianity and his original stance on the matter, telling reporters, “I stand by my personal beliefs. And everyone is entitled to their personal beliefs, right? Also, I mean no harm towards any groups of people.”
So then, Bass had both admitted he did something wrong in the eyes of the left…and stood by the decision, adding yet more fuel to the fire. So the team cut him, admitting that recent events factored into the decision.
Blue Jays manager Ross Atkins, speaking on the decision to cut Bass and what the primary reasons for firing him were, said that his performance was the primary problem but “distraction,” presumably meaning the video and following statements, factored into it. “There’s a myriad of variables. Performance is usually the driving one and performance was a large aspect of this decision. Distraction was a small part of it and something we had to factor in,” Atkins said.
He then tried to dodge the “distraction” bit, presumably so he wouldn’t have to say the team fired a player for his Christian beliefs, saying that it was a “baseball decision” to cut Bass. “We’re trying to build the best possible team we can build. This was a baseball decision to make our team better,” Atkins said.
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