As many of you know, I’ve really tried to become more proficient at sports-blogging. I legitimately follow (and am obsessed with) tennis, and I loosely follow the bigger gossip stories coming out of basketball and football. But I just can’t with baseball. I can’t even pretend to care? It’s such a boring sport and the teams and fans are populated with such not-great people. No disrespect – there are good people in the MLB, and there are good people stanning baseball. But my take is that baseball, even more than the NFL, is populated by some of the biggest MAGA douches out there. Speaking of, this man you see before you is Aubrey Huff, a now-retired player from the San Francisco Giants. The Giants won the World Series in 2010, and so there is a 10-year anniversary event happening. Huff was invited to the anniversary party and now he’s been disinvited. Why, you might ask. Because of sh-t like this:
Getting my boys trained up on how to use a gun in the unlikely event @BernieSanders beats @realDonaldTrump in 2020. In which case knowing how to effectively use a gun under socialism will be a must. By the way most the head shots were theirs. @NRA @WatchChad #2ndAmendment pic.twitter.com/6xUsS7ciX3
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) November 26, 2019
He left that tweet up, but he deleted a tweet made last year where this happened:
In January, Huff replied on Twitter to a user who said the U.S. should invade Iran and take their women. “Let’s get a flight over and kidnap about 10 each,” Huff wrote in a since-deleted tweet, later backtracking with an additional tweet that said he was joking. “Does nobody have a sense of humor anymore!? The way Iranian women are treated over there I simply wanted 2 say I’d go there 2 rescue them & bring them back 2 the states. And they would be so thankful 2 escape that hell that they’d fan me & feed me grapes. Never said rape!” he wrote.
*shiver* God, this is so gross. So now this MAGA douche has been disinvited from the party and he can’t stop whining about how it’s ALL POLITICAL and how dare they step on his rights as a white man to say terrible sh-t with no consequences! The first amendment protects white men from consequences, doesn’t it??
The San Francisco Giants have disinvited former first baseman Aubrey Huff from its upcoming 2010 World Series anniversary celebration, citing the retired player’s “unacceptable” Twitter comments. The team said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE that Huff, 43, was recently informed he would not be allowed to participate when the championship Giants reunite at Oracle Park on Aug. 16.
“Earlier this month, we reached out to Aubrey Huff to let him know that he will not be included in the upcoming 2010 World Series Championship reunion,” the statement read. “Our decision is not at all a reflection on his political views, but is based on the fact that Aubrey has made multiple comments on social media that are unacceptable and run counter to the values of our organization. While we appreciate the many contributions that Aubrey made to the 2010 championship season, we stand by our decision.”
Huff told The Athletic, which first reported the news, that he was “shocked” and “disappointed” by the decision.
“If it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be having a reunion,” he said. “But if they want to stick with their politically correct, progressive bulls—, that’s fine.”
The Athletic reporter Andrew Baggarly wrote on Twitter that he’d spoken with Giants officials, who clarified that Huff’s banning had nothing to do with politics. “They believe he has crossed the line when it comes to misogyny, vulgarity and common decency,” Baggarly wrote.
I mean… not to take MAGA douche’s side, but it WAS a political decision. His politics, his misogyny, his calls to violence echo his Nazi idol Donald Trump’s similar politics and similar vulgarity. Trying to say that Huff is too vulgar but it’s not somehow “political” is laughable.
Anyway, sad MAGA douche said words about the First Amendment on his Twitter, because of course he did.
My response to @SFGiants
@mlb @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/tDs8L8kGNi
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) February 18, 2020
Photos courtesy of Getty.
I really wish people understood the First Amendment. It’s not carte blanche to say whatever you want about anybody/anything. And the Second Amendment, until Scalia’s interpretation in 2008, was not intended to give everyone/anyone the right to carry/use an AK-47, etc.
Unless you’re putting someone in harm’s way (i.e. yelling “fire” in a movie theater) the First Amendment protects most speech. Just because it’s legal to say vile things, however, doesn’t make it right. And other people are perfectly within their rights to think you’re a jerk or terrible human being.
Beyond that, the First Amendment is about GOVERNMENT action, not private action. These MAGA types cherry pick the Constitution just like they cherry pick the Bible.
YES. another point they miss. yeah, you can be fired for your political views. you can be disinvited for things you say.
Additionally Huff states to The Atlantic, “If it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be having a reunion,” he said. Apparently Huff thinks quite a bit of himself. I think that Huff realized that his appalling and later deleted tweet in which he supported/encouraged the kidnapping/”rescuing“ of Iranian woman from that hell, was a mistake and instead of taking responsibility for that appalling statement, he blames it on politics.
He has a right to speak and they have a right, as a private organization, to NOT invite people to their reunions whom they deem are vulgar and misogynistic. Who cares about the politics. You either get invited to their party or not. Boo hoo, little douche man.
I’d also like to point out that, according to the dude’s own twitter post, it was a UNANIMOUS decision to not invite him. that means that NONE of the Giants’ org wanted him. brass, players, coaches, etc.
NO ONE LIKES YOU, MAGAT.
@whatWHAT?
NO ONE LIKES YOU, MAGAT is the name of my new band, DIBS !!!
lol, Tiffany. Glad I could help! I’ll come see you play!
My 13 y/o & I saw a man wearing a “Freedom” sweatshirt with MAGA crap & he said to me “Mom, that guy just wants his freedom to take away other people’s freedoms” and he shook his head. I told him that he understands what a lot of adults don’t yet….
Well said.
THIS
I am so proud of your son!!
Wow! Your son is brilliant! You are so right, he gets what so many adults don’t understand or REFUSE to understand. Well done!
Smart kid.
pardon my french but I am SO F*CKING TIRED of people who don’t understand the first amendment.
freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences OF that speech.
talk all you want about a civil war if 45 loses in November. joke about kidnapping Iranian women. but don’t expect to not face consequences for saying such things. next time, go up to Harlem and stand on the corner and shout the N-word as loud as you can, repeatedly. you have the right/freedom of speech to do so. but be prepared for some consequences.
also, I am tired of (mostly) men saying “it was just a JOKE!” to try to excuse their toxic masculinity.
PS – I guess he doesn’t watch Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I wish someone would print that on a t-shirt and hand it out at 45 rallies: “Freedom of speech does not equal freedom from consequences.”
This putz is acting like his rights have been trampled on, when in actuality he was just disinvited to a party because of what he said…MAGA’s gonna MAGA, alas.
I also love how they talk about civil war because of Trump losing but were the first ones chanting that we need to accept the results etc etc. I honestly don’t think he will lose but it’s interesting noting where their definition of freedom begins and ends.
He is a “see you next tuesday” douchebag. “These White Priviledged” men think that their words hurt other people and not face consequences? And when they do, their “feelings” are hurt so they hide their cowardly ass behinf the 1st amendment.
What a douchebag and an A***. I hope he wallows in his pity from the rest of Trump deplorable idiots because he is getting no sympathy from me.
It’s always “No one has a sense of humor”.
Crazy that we don’t find abuse funny, huh? (shrugs) The bully always does, but just can’t understand why the witnesses don’t.
“I just want to be able to make fun of marginalized people like minorities and gays, what’s the big deal?!”
translated it for him.
his twitter bio even says that he “SUPPORTS toxic masculinity”.
what a d-bag.
Are there still Americans who equate Socialism with Communism??!
yes, because of a very persistent and strong disinformation campaign.
This guy is disgusting.
agree, don’t waste your inner peace on this scum.
He is so tough and macho for a man whose name is Aubrey 😂🙄🙄
I’ve always liked his name, not just Aubrey, but the whole thing, “Aubrey Huff” has a nice ring to it. Turns out it was deceptive.
I hope all of the other MAGATs are taking notes. You WILL be canceled. Society will right itself and you can take your disgusting – bass-ackward views and go cry under your racist rock with all the other worms and salamanders and termites. And this isn’t political – you saying you’re going to SHOOT a person with whom you disagree politically isn’t political. It’s a threat of violence and has no place being glorified by any acceptable organization.
Absolutely vile. Inciting gun violence, whether as a joke or not, it is never funny and should not be tolerated. Funny how it’s always the right that does this and never liberals.
This man couldn’t define socialism with a gun to his head.
none of the magats railing against it could. their idea of socialism is someone taking THEIR money and giving it to poor folks (read: minorities, even though most welfare recipients are WHITE) who don’t want to work.
I know the Republican party encourages anti-intellectualism among its voters but doesn’t it embarrass them when they are this stupid??
He’s not even smart enough to know when to shut up.
His so called “locker room talk” should have stayed in the “locker room” I guess.
As a die hard lifelong Giants fan, I support this. Baseball crowds tend to be very egalitarian, women go alone, men bring daughters. We know many of the players are less than progressive. Our adored Will Clark is a famous Republican. But he doesn’t tweet rape fantasies. This isn’t about being a Trump supporter. It’s about mimicking Trump.
Alyssa Naaken is from my hometown, and everyone I know only has the best things to say about her. Breaking barriers, and the fact that he ragged on her and tweeted crap about giants plays being coached by a softball player. I was done before that, but I think that was the nail in the coffin for the organization. I’ve been done with him since the rape/kidnapping fantasy tweet. What a misogynistic, racist loser.
if men can coach women’s sports, then women can coach men’s. why is that so hard for people to grasp?
What an absolute pig.
Hateful, stupid and violent and training his children to be the same.
“The way Iranian women are treated over there I simply wanted 2 say I’d go there 2 rescue them & bring them back 2 the states. And they would be so thankful 2 escape that hell that they’d fan me & feed me grapes. Never said rape.”
–I. JUST. CAN’T. I would say more at this point but I might get banned from Celebitchy if I do.
I don’t think douchebag is a strong enough word for him. POS? Vile? All of these things and more!
“The first amendment protects white men from consequences, doesn’t it??”
Gold, Kaiser! *ded laffin here* 🙂 🙂 🙂