{"id":1496508,"date":"2022-05-29T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496508"},"modified":"2022-05-29T16:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:44:51","slug":"i-would-never-not-stand-up-baseball-legend-scorches-san-frans-kapler-over-national-anthem-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-would-never-not-stand-up-baseball-legend-scorches-san-frans-kapler-over-national-anthem-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Would Never Not Stand Up!\u2019: Baseball Legend Scorches San Fran\u2019s Kapler Over National Anthem Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fi-would-never-not-stand-up-baseball-legend-scorches-san-frans-kapler-over-national-anthem-protest%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=1496508&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>Legendary Major League Baseball manager Tony LaRussa called out his San Francisco counterpart Gabe Kapler over the latter\u2019s plans to boycott the national anthem in the wake of the school shooting that took place Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>LaRussa, who currently manages the Chicago White Sox, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/29\/sport\/tony-la-russa-gabe-kapler-protest-spt-intl\/index.html\">argued<\/a> that while he agreed with the Giants\u2019 skipper when it came to the issue of gun violence, he believed that during the national anthem was the wrong time to express his opinion.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White Sox manager Tony La Russa wants it to be very clear: He likes and respects Gabe Kapler and agrees with his stance on gun violence but disagrees with his mode of protesting. (Kapler says he\u2019ll remain in the clubhouse for the national anthem.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseRogersESPN\/status\/1530643526442172416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I disagree is that the flag and the anthem are not appropriate places to try to voice your objection. I think you go directly to what the cause that really bothers you about the direction of the country is,\u201d LaRussa said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo to me, it isn\u2019t the flag and the anthem. I think it makes more sense to figure out which of those issues and speak about the ones he didn\u2019t like and what he will do about it,\u201d LaRussa continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never not stand up for the anthem or the flag. Maybe just because I\u2019m older, and I\u2019ve been around veterans more than the average person,\u201d he added, arguing that standing for the flag and for the national anthem was not something he did for himself but something he did for those who had sacrificed for him under that flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of their courage comes from what the flag means to them and when they hear the anthem. You need to understand what the veterans think when they hear the anthem or see the flag. And the cost they paid and their families. And if you truly understand that, I think it\u2019s impossible not to salute the flag and listen to the anthem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kapler <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/in-wake-of-uvalde-shooting-san-francisco-giants-manager-boycotting-national-anthem-until-he-feels-better-about-direction-of-america\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Friday that he did not plan to participate in the traditional pregame observance of the national anthem until until he felt \u201cbetter about the direction\u201d he believed the United States was heading as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I\u2019m participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place,\u201d he said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/kaplifestyle.com\/2022\/05\/27\/home-of-the-brave\/\">essay published Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen 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\u2019t. \u00a0don\u2019t believe it is representing us well right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Major League Baseball manager Tony LaRussa called out his San Francisco counterpart Gabe Kapler over the latter\u2019s plans to boycott the national anthem in the wake of the school shooting that took place Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. LaRussa, who currently manages the Chicago White Sox, argued that while he agreed with the Giants\u2019 skipper &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1496518,"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-1496508","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\/1496508","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}