{"id":1444387,"date":"2022-04-18T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444387"},"modified":"2022-04-18T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:00:50","slug":"reddish-sox-pitcher-to-skip-toronto-game-more-than-vax-mandates-i-believe-its-an-individual-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reddish-sox-pitcher-to-skip-toronto-game-more-than-vax-mandates-i-believe-its-an-individual-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddish Sox Pitcher to Skip Toronto Game more than Vax Mandates: &#039;I BELIEVE it\u2019s an individual Choice&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freddish-sox-pitcher-to-skip-toronto-game-more-than-vax-mandates-i-believe-its-an-individual-choice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Red Sox pitcher\u00a0Tanner Houck is expected to miss Tuesday\u2019s game in Toronto\u00a0against the Blue Jays for not being vaccinated, making it clear that it is a \u201cpersonal choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the league does not require players to be vaccinated, individuals must be fully vaccinated to enter Canada. This means that unvaccinated players are not permitted to travel and participate with the team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mark-Blinch_Getty-Images-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Jays\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><em><span class=\"html-render\">Batting practice at Rogers Centre in Toronto (Mark Blinch\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a personal choice for everyone whether they get it or not,\u201d the right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/04\/17\/sports\/red-sox-pitcher-tanner-houck-indicates-hes-not-vaccinated-wont-be-able-start-toronto-next-week\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>. \u201cSo, that\u2019s all I really got to say on it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">He also said he is \u201cdefinitely bummed\u201d that he will not be able to make the start.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cBut the starts that I am able to make, I plan on giving 100 percent for this team, if not more so,\u201d he added. \u201cAnything I can do for this team to help them win, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">The team\u2019s manager Alex Cora said there are other players who will not be able to participate for the same reason.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">Houck is not the only athlete who has faced these complications due to Canada\u2019s rules. Last week,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"html-render\">Philadelphia 76ers guard\u00a0Matisse Thybulle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/04\/11\/sixers-guard-miss-playoff-games-due-not-being-fully-vaccinated\/\">revealed<\/a> he would not be able to participate in his team\u2019s start against the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"html-render\">Toronto Raptors because he is not \u201cfully\u201d vaccinated, only getting one shot and ultimately refusing to finish the vaccine series, deeming him ineligible to travel into Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thybulle, who said he was raised in a \u201cholistic\u201d household, said he was initially \u201cunder the impression that getting vaccinated means that I could not get the disease and transmit it to other people.\u201d However, he later realized, as many others did, that it is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like if I\u2019m going to be a part of society in the position I\u2019m in, I need to do what\u2019s right for the greater good. That argument of the greater good held a lot of weight for me,\u201d he said, explaining that \u201cthat wasn\u2019t the case anymore, that even while being vaccinated, you can still spread the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026with that being considered and the holistic background of my upbringing and just the way I view medicine in general, I felt like I was secure in going to the doctors that I have to treat COVID if I did get it and in the case that I did, I was able to go about it in my holistic way and I\u2019m able to sit here today healthy and be OK because of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matisse Thybulle&#8217;s opening statement on his decision to not get fully vaccinated. Thybulle has had one dose of the Pfizer vaccine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1gkTWksvk\">pic.twitter.com\/t1gkTWksvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerekBodnerNBA\/status\/1513344217879351302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox pitcher\u00a0Tanner Houck is expected to miss Tuesday\u2019s game in Toronto\u00a0against the Blue Jays for not being vaccinated, making it clear that it is a \u201cpersonal choice.\u201d While the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}