SF Giants Manager To Boycott Anthem As “Glorification Of The Only Country Where Mass Shootings Take Place”

May 28, 2022 Mass Shootings, Sports

As details of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, continue to unfold, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler on Friday wrote that he is “not okay with the state of this country” and that he “felt like a coward” for not protesting “the lack of delivery on the promise of what our national anthem represents.”

Kapler told reporters before Friday’s series opener at Cincinnati that, moving forward, he doesn’t plan on taking the field for the national anthem “until I feel better about the direction of our country” and that he needs more time to consider specific actions he might suggest be taken to prevent more tragedies of this type, such as stronger gun control laws.

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#SFGiants manager @GabeKapler wrote that he is “not okay with the state of this country” after the school shooting in #Texas and that he doesn’t plan on taking the field for the national anthem “until I feel better about the direction of our country.” https://t.co/JZhLR5iOZY

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) May 27, 2022

“Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self-congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place,” Gabe Kapler, the manager of the San Francisco Giants, wrote in a blog post. https://t.co/CrGddG71XR

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 28, 2022

“I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel better about the direction of our country” – Gabe Kapler pic.twitter.com/J1MdlVL3XI

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) May 27, 2022