San Francisco Giants Manager Puts National Anthem Protest On Hold For Memorial Day
Kapler then confirmed that he would stand for the anthem for the Giants’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies Monday. “Today, I’ll be standing for the anthem,” he wrote. “While I believe strongly in the right to protest and the importance of doing so, I also believe strongly in honoring and mourning our country’s service men and women who fought and died for that right. Those who serve in our military, and especially those who have paid the ultimate price for our rights and freedoms, deserve that acknowledgment and respect, and I am honored to stand on the line today to show mine.”
ESPN reported Monday that Kapler did in fact stand for the anthem during the Giants’ series opener against the Phillies, and MLB.com showed a picture of Kapler standing for the anthem with his hand over his heart, outside the visitors’ dugout at Citizens Bank Park. Kapler wouldn’t say if his protest would resume on Tuesday. “I want to have my thoughts perfectly formulated,” he said, via ESPN. “I will formulate them and I will share them. I just don’t have them right now.”
In another post on his blog, Kapler announced Friday that he would boycott the national anthem before the Giants’ game against the Cincinnati Reds, to protest gun violence and the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. “When I was the same age as the children in Uvalde, my father taught me to stand for the pledge of allegiance when I believed my country was representing its people well or to protest and stay seated when it wasn’t,” Kapler wrote. “I don’t believe it is representing us well right now.”
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