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At the urging of a very young fan, the Boston Red Sox have agreed to become the third major league sports team to record an “It Gets Better” video. The Advocate reports: Sam Maden, a 12-year-old Sox fan, petitioned the team via Change.org to create a video for the project, founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller as a way …

The Chicago Cubs have announced their intent to follow the lead of the San Francisco Giants and create an It Gets Better clip. The Cubs will be the second professional sports team to participate in the “It Gets Better” campaign following the San Francisco Giants who released their video earlier this week. “The Cubs applaud the Giants for their stand …

San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson has launched a virtual “beard-touching” website.

News of Bin Laden’s death rocketed around the stadium at last night’s Phillies-Mets game, leaving the players a bit befuddled as to why the fans were suddenly cheering and chanting.

The Atlanta Braves have suspended their pitching coach after he heckled fans at a San Francisco game by shouting, “Are you a homo couple or a threesome?” and then simulating anal sex with a baseball bat. The Braves have placed pitching coach Roger McDowell on administrative leave while they continue to investigate allegations that he directed anti-gay slurs toward fans …

San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson, who gained positive notice here for his dyed-black World Series beard, appeared on Lopez Tonight yesterday to promote his new Xbox game. Which wouldn’t be very interesting except that it’s Brian Wilson, who always brings the crazy. Feels like he’s angling for a post-baseball career in comedy, yeah? Stick around for the game trailer …

Superstar second baseman Roberto Alomar was elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame today, surprising some observers who had predicted that the retired ballplayer’s HIV-lawsuit peppered past would keep him from the sport’s greatest honor. In October 2010, Alomar’s estranged wife filed a lawsuit claiming he had unprotected sex with her even though he knows he is HIV-positive. In 2009 …

Lt. Governor-elect Mayor Gavin Newsom and Brian “The Beard” Wilson go by right at the beginning of this clip.

Mayhem broke out in parts of San Francisco last night following Giants winning the World Series.

San Francisco, home of uncountable lost perverted souls, tonight also become home to a World Series championship team for the first time ever. And once again, it was the bearded hottie pitcher on the mound at the end. Freepers are reacting in predictable fashion. -“San Francisco will have a GIANT hangover tomorrow. Lower voter turnout!”-“I hope they stick that trophy …

Also: San Francisco won the pennant. Just For Men should totally hire Brian Wilson as their spokesbear.

Responding to pressure from GLAAD, the New York Yankees have vowed to end homophobic taunting by their fans. The issue came to light on Tuesday thanks to a video (created by JMG reader Sean Chapin) which showed fans shouting an obscene version of Village People’s YMCA at fans for opposing teams. Via GLAAD: We reached out to the Yankees, and …

The wife of former New York Mets second baseman Roberto Alomar has filed a lawsuit claiming he had unprotected sex with her even though he knows he is HIV-positive. A former girlfriend of Alomar filed a $15M suit on the same grounds last year. Alomar settled that case out of court. “Prior to the marriage” in 2009, the suit says, …

Gothamist tips us that the new fan favorite of the Tampa Bay Rays is DJ Kitty, who now rallies the stadium from the Jumbotron at every game. Another video at the first link, news story about DJ Kitty here.

Mercurial New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack this morning in Florida at the age of 80. Since Steinbrenner bought the team in 1973, the Yankees have won eleven pennants and seven World Series. He retired from day to day operations in 2006, handing over the business to his two sons. Steinbrenner is widely credited as …

A spectator miraculously survived a fall from the upper deck at a Texas Rangers game yesterday after he lunged for a foul ball, landing on fans on the field level. The fall wasn’t captured on television, but the horrified reactions of the players and umpires tells the story.

A massive crowd cheered the first-time appearances of major league sports teams in yesterday’s gay pride parade in Chicago. An eclectic mix of stars — the Stanley Cup with former Blackhawk Brent Sopel, the Cubs’ Ernie Banks and country singer Chely Wright — basked in the celebration of an estimated 450,000 who attended the 41st annual Pride Parade in the …

Really? A tasering? A police officer used a Taser gun to apprehend a fan who ran onto the field during a Phillies game Monday night, and the team and the police are investigating whether it was an appropriate use of force. The fan, wearing a baseball cap, red T-shirt and khaki shorts, hopped a fence and scurried around the outfield, …