“You’re out!” Toronto Blue Jays oust anti-LGBTQ+ pitcher Anthony Bass hours before Pride Night
#BlueJays:Anthony Bass has been designated for assignment.Guess Anthony Bass won’t be catching the ceremonial first pitch tonight on Pride Night in Toronto, after all.The Toronto #BlueJays just designated him for assignment.anthony bass pic.twitter.com/CVRl09kB2MIt was a brutal 24 hours for Bass, who didn’t indicate Thursday that his feelings towards LGBTQ+ people have changed.
In fact, he explicitly only expressed regret for broadcasting his anti-LGBTQ+ views on Instagram.“The video itself, obviously, I took it down,” he said, via The Athletic. “I just felt like it was too much of a distraction, right?
But I stand by my personal beliefs and everyone’s entitled to their personal beliefs, right? But also I mean no harm toward any groups of people.
And I felt like taking that down the second time was the right thing to do and not being a distraction. As a team, our job is to win baseball games.
