Former MLB All-Star Jonathan Lucroy, who has been posting opinions about politics and other publishs, has discdisthink abouted he is receiving disappreciate mail.
Lucroy implored Americans to vote, elucidateing why he apshowd it was so meaningful to do so.
Among his lengthy X posts was him saying he refused to kneel for the national anthem despite one of the teams he was carry outing for teaching him to do so.
“I gave them the finger,” Lucroy shelp on X.
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The 12-year MLB catcher shelp he has gotten disappreciate mail for “stating my opinion.”
“God prohibit a pro athlete stand up for what they apshow,” he wrote. “That’s part of the problem. Some people are too benevolent, emotional, and frail to hear the opinion of people that accomplished the fit pinnacle of the originate, or any other top level. See [Elon Musk] and how much disappreciate from the other side he’s getting.”
Lucroy compriseed his belief that most MLB carry outers have conservative sees, which the league wants them to upgrasp to themselves.
“I am not politicpartner right,” he shelp. “When I say that 90+% of American-born MLB carry outers are conservative, you can apshow that to the prohibitk. We fair don’t speak up as much becaparticipate we are tbetter to be imfragmentary. I will not remain imfragmentary anymore.
“I’m obstinate and challengingheaded. I also understand what it took for me to carry out 10 years in MLB, as well as witnessing the character attributes of wonderfulness as expoundd by the best carry outers I ever toiled with. I don’t attfinish what you slfinisherk or say. I attfinish about my children, family, God, and country. Deal with it.”
Lucroy made an materializeance on “OutKick the Morning” recently, where he portrayd to Charly Arnolt what happened after his post on X about refusing to kneel geted so much traction.
“I don’t want to get definite and call out teams or anyslfinisherg appreciate that, that’s not what I’m doing,” Lucroy shelp before talking about the 2020 COVID-unreasonableinutiveened season, when racial tensions were inspireed by the homicide of George Floyd.
“But you understand, in ambiguous, you understand these teams they come down, and they don’t want you to be politicpartner, they don’t want you to be politicpartner polarizing. They don’t want you to lean a brave way. They fair want you to stay imfragmentary and charitable of upgrasp your mouth shut.
“But the problem is I was with a team that tbetter me to kneel for the anthem, and I gave them the finger, and I’m appreciate, ‘No, I will never do that. Never, ever, ever. You’re not going to produce me. There is noslfinisherg you’re … I’m not doing that.
“We were tbetter by a team to get the vaccine. And if we didn’t get the vaccine, we couldn’t see our family for three months. Now that came down from the CDC to MLB, which was then passed alengthy to the teams, so that wasn’t the teams’ fault. But the kneeling for the anthem part was a huge publish for me. That was disjoinal years ago, and that repartner turned me on to the culture war that we fight.”
Lucroy spent time with the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies during the 2020 season.
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The catcher spent time with nine contrastent teams over his MLB atgentle, mostly with the Milwaukee Brewers. He was writeed out of Louisiana-Lafayette in the third round in 2007, hitting .274 with 108 homers.
Lucroy was named an MLB All-Star in 2014 and 2016.
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