GLAAD
reports:
Today,
the Toronto Blue Jays announced that shortstop Yunel Escobar will work
with GLAAD and the You Can Play project, after he was seen with an
anti-gay slur written in Spanish on his eye-black over the weekend. The
team also announced that Escobar will serve a three-day suspension.
GLAAD has been in conversations throughout the day with the team and
with Major League Baseball (MLB) about the incident. In announcing
Escobar's suspension and intent to work with GLAAD and You Can Play, the
team today stated "The Blue Jays want to reaffirm that discrimination
of any kind will not be tolerated. The club looks forward to supporting
the efforts of You Can Play and GLAAD to help promote education for
players and fans alike and to help keep language like this out of the
game and society."
RELATED: The Toronto
Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communication, the same company that last
year fired Sportsnet host Damian Goddard, who then told the world that
he was let go
because of "a single tweet supporting one-man one-woman marriage."
Rogers dismissed that claim as ridiculous, but has refused to discuss
the real reason for the firing because "we do not discuss personnel
issues with the press." Goddard, who is Catholic, has since become a
martyr to and spokesman for Vatican front group NOM and has a case
pending before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He just posted the
below tweet.
UPDATE:
Escobar may have been forcing into working with GLAAD, but he's clearly
not quite apologizing. My pal Andres Duque just translated a press
conference response.
Reposted from Joe
