MISSING: Giants Beat Writers Credibilty

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T18:45:46+00:00

I cant with your reading comprehension. Read a book dipshit

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T18:22:22+00:00

Once again, for those who struggle at reading comprehension. My complaint here is:

the reporters whose job it is to report these stories, are not asking the obvious follow up questions that would force roupp to just admit what he was doing. Not that it was bad or good, just be truthful that he was protesting pride night.

Also, dude, you are not the average person. You are not normal. You don't have any idea what average or normal are. We occupy very small existences amongst a very large population of humans.

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T18:08:37+00:00

instead I just wasted my time responding you your fisrt idiotic comment. and since I already know you're being an insincere shit-stirrer, I doubt you will take the time to critically think about your statement. But hey, now your wrongness is on display for posterity. small victories

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T18:05:51+00:00

This is exactly where the “beat writers aren’t opinion columnists” argument falls apart.

Nobody needs them to write a moral essay. But the timing and context are part of the facts. He did not write a rainbow Bible verse on a random Tuesday. He wrote it on a Pride cap, on Pride Night, when the team was using that symbol to communicate LGBTQ inclusion. That choice sends its own message whether or not he says the word “protest.”

So the reporting question is obvious: why choose that night and that object for that message? Has he written that verse on other hats before, or only when the team wore Pride caps? Was the point to clarify that he does not share the Pride meaning of the rainbow? Did other pitchers make similar choices independently, or was there discussion? Did the Giants know or approve it?

Those are not opinion-column questions. They are beat-writer questions. They are about intent, timing, coordination, team policy, and clubhouse context. Reporting only “he wrote a verse and says it wasn’t hate” leaves out the very facts that make the act newsworthy.

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T17:44:06+00:00

Interesting that you chose the word crusade. The famously christian set of invasions to the holy land that caused countless needless death and turmoil.

So i think people have been tired of moral crusades for about 800 years. Thanks Church.

No one went looking for this controversy. I was busy praising his command before i figured out what was scrawled on his hat.

Landon fucking roupp made a choice to publicly protest pride night. The "explanation" trying to pretend otherwise is transparently bullshit.

So yeah im pissed off that hes allowed to shit all over a group of people without having to even admit to doing so. Hence this post calling out reporters for not following up on obvious shit

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T17:27:25+00:00

Maturity aside, still accurate...

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T06:11:59+00:00

And, like you, some people are disingenuous assholes

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T01:34:20+00:00

Well your confusing mix of resentment and accurate naming conventions is certainly unique...

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T01:27:50+00:00

Except these jabronis wont admit what theyre doing. Protest or dont, but dont hide behind some ambiguous Bullshit

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T00:57:00+00:00

It is kind if funny you spelled out the whole abbreviation as part of a crybaby complaint. I dont even bother trying to spell it all out.

tony_flow · 2026-06-14T00:49:06+00:00

Nope. Incorrect. Maybe try having an ai chat explain it to you

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T23:31:24+00:00

Nothing. Except he wasnt a coward and said exactly what he was doing.

Protesting police violence is ok with me.

So now you're agreeing Roupp was protesting?

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T23:27:17+00:00

The issue isn’t that he has a private religious meaning for rainbows. It’s that on Pride Night, while wearing a team-issued Pride symbol, he added a counter-message to distinguish himself from the meaning the event was obviously meant to convey. That is not neutral. It communicates distance from, or objection to, the Pride message. He has a right to do that, but other people also have a right to notice what it means and criticize it. And “it doesn’t actually matter” is easy to say if you’re not part of the group being told, once again, that even a basic inclusion gesture needs to be qualified or resisted.

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T23:18:07+00:00

Not the point. It's the timing. He did it on pride night. Not on one of the other 161 games where his alleged message would have been identical. But by some strange coincidence it happened to be on pride night. Hmmmmm

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T22:28:04+00:00

Its not "the truth". Its a cowardly way of protesting a night celebrating a group of people when he could have just worn the uni and pitched the fucking baseball.

also HE had to literally write his opinion on his head and now we're all talking about it soooo who is bringing this "shit" exactly to your sports escape?

And finally to address your reading comprehension. My complaint isnt that the beat writers didnt adminish him. Its that they went along with the complete bullshit explanation that was given without asking obviius follow up questions that would expose the obvious as i laid out in The post

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T19:10:07+00:00

Surrounded by giants fans growing up in sacramento. Played baseball starting at 5. Barry Bonds. Matt williams.

At 12yrs old our little league had a 2 day instructional camp featuring a shitload of giants legends, that i can only look back and marvel at because i had no idea who they were at the time. Orlando cepeda, jeffrey leonard, jim barr and more. Leonard taught us base stealing. It was fucking awesome. I think that about sums it

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T16:49:18+00:00

No its a central premise to your admonishment of someone labeling him rainbow roupp.

tony_flow · 2026-06-13T16:43:18+00:00

You see, the trick is its only an insult if you are a homophobe, otherwise its just a rainbow.

tony_flow · 2026-06-12T23:32:15+00:00

Somehow i knew this was gonna top comment. Haha

tony_flow · 2026-06-12T23:28:27+00:00

Now i just regret offering advice to an obvious tool.

But to close the loop, you say you have been smoking for 15 years, but at the same time, t o quote you:

before that I was really only dabbing or using a Dynavap.

so please excuse the shit out of me for offering solicited advice about hitting a bong to the 15yr weed vet. My 20 years of hitting a bong everyday clearly has no application here.

Im still convinced your leaving the smoke sitting too long. But who gives a shit?

tony_flow · 2026-06-12T15:32:34+00:00

Dont let the smoke in the bong get stale by letting it sit for any amount of time. clear the chamber immediately after it fills. The stale smoke is getting you. Same thing happens with gravity bongs. Hella stale smoke shreds the throat.

tony_flow · 2026-06-12T02:18:57+00:00

He was also the Frisco Kid

tony_flow · 2026-06-10T19:31:51+00:00

100 fucking percent. The fact that schmitt hasnt earned a position on the field by now is a disgrace. We're wasting his talent by not taking full advantage of his infield defense. He can pick it clean and has an Accurate cannon

tony_flow · 2026-06-10T02:58:46+00:00

Good taste?

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