{"id":729591,"date":"2026-06-19T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/729591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:09:15","slug":"sf-giants-fans-ask-where-was-team-leadership-on-pride-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/729591\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants fans ask: Where was team leadership on Pride caps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When several San Francisco Giants pitchers altered or declined to wear their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/giants\/article\/sf-giants-landen-roupp-says-no-hate-pride-night-22303714.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team-issued Pride caps<\/a> last week, it set off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/giants\/article\/giants-pride-hat-problem-goes-national-jd-22308586.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">national firestorm<\/a>. Many denounced the players\u2019 actions as disrespect or outright bigotry for the LGBTQ community; some defended their right to free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle has received thousands of reader responses to the episode, with a wide spectrum of opinions. Among impassioned fans, the controversy has raised larger questions about team leadership\u00a0\u2014 and why no one intervened before the players took the field.<\/p>\n<p>One decades-long fan wrote in to say that \u201cmany of my favorite players may have different political views than I do, and that\u2019s fine. What is upsetting is to find that the organization that I have loved and supported for years is no longer an organization I can support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another reader said: \u201cWhere\u2019s Buster Posey in all this? The silence is deafening.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One commenter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@sfchronicle\/photo\/7652134432559697165\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Chronicle\u2019s TikTok post<\/a> wrote: \u201cWe need to hold management, specifically Posey, Baer, Minasian and Vitello accountable. This never should have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read through the hundreds of responses that have come into our reader survey below, and join the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When several San Francisco Giants pitchers altered or declined to wear their team-issued Pride caps last week, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,6595,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185,1870,90989],"class_list":["post-729591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-buster-posey","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-sports","tag-tony-vitello","tag-us-and-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116773870873466349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}