{"id":2028040,"date":"2023-09-11T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yankees-legend-david-wells-tears-into-woke-culture-and-businesses\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:55:38","slug":"yankees-legend-david-wells-tears-into-woke-culture-and-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yankees-legend-david-wells-tears-into-woke-culture-and-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees icon David Wells criticizes &#8216;woke&#8217; culture and businesses."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fyankees-legend-david-wells-tears-into-woke-culture-and-businesses%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=2028040&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--><h2>Former Yankees Pitcher David Wells Criticizes MLB&#8217;s &#8220;Woke&#8221; Culture<\/h2>\n<p>During the Yankees&#8217; Old-Timers&#8217; Day, former New York Yankees pitcher and two-time \u200dWorld Series champion, David Wells, \u200cdidn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a> in expressing his frustration with Major League \u200dBaseball and the influence of &#8220;woke&#8221; culture \u200con <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">major corporations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a different world,&#8221; Wells, 60,\u2062 exclaimed. &#8220;It sucks. That&#8217;s why \u2062everyone should carry a gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Wells spoke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yankees-legend-david-wells-tears-into-woke-culture-and-businesses\/\" title=\"Yankees icon David Wells criticizes 'woke' culture and businesses.\">observant fans noticed<\/a>\u200d that he had taped \u2063over the Nike logo on his jersey, making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-tweets-from-andrew-cuomo-that-aged-horribly\/\" title=\"#MeToo Tweets From Andrew Cuomo That Aged Horribly\">bold statement<\/a> against the company&#8217;s involvement in social issues. Wells even mentioned\u200d that if he were playing in today&#8217;s game, he would remove \u200dthe iconic\u200d swoosh \u2064from his attire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I hate Nike!&#8221; Wells passionately \u2062declared. &#8220;They&#8217;re\u200d woke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wells went on to criticize companies like Nike and Bud Light for delving too deeply into social issues and \u200dpolitics. He even mentioned that he no longer consumes Anheuser-Busch products.<\/p>\n<p>As \u200ca member of the\u200d 1998 World Series-winning\u200c Yankees, Wells took the\u200b opportunity to address the current culture of Major League Baseball. He expressed his frustration with\u200b the tendency to blame managers \u2064and general managers\u200d for team failures, emphasizing that players should\u200c be held accountable for their performance on the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re not \u2063doing the job out \u200con the \u200bfield, and \u2062if\u2063 I was a GM, I would start sending a message,&#8221; Wells asserted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wells also advocated for a tougher\u200d approach towards players, suggesting that those \u2064underperforming should\u2062 be sent down to Triple-A or Double-A as\u200b a wake-up call, just as it was done in \u200dhis time. He believed that players are being coddled too much in the present day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Send a message to them and let\u200b them go sit down there and\u2064 think about it. That&#8217;s what you have to do. I think now they coddle \u200bthem too much. They baby them. \u200b&#8230; It&#8217;s up to your \u2064peers to make you better,&#8221; Wells argued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>David Wells&#8217; bold statements \u2063and criticism of the\u2062 &#8220;woke&#8221; culture \u200cin Major League Baseball have sparked a\u200b conversation about \u200cthe role of social issues in sports.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wells, ex-Yankees pitcher and World Series champ, criticized MLB and denounced the pervasive &#8220;woke&#8221; culture in major corporations. Speaking at the Yankees&#8217; Old-Timers&#8217; Day, the 60-year-old expressed his discontent with the current state of affairs, stating, &#8220;We&#8217;re in a different world. It sucks. That&#8217;s why everyone should carry a gun.&#8221; A Chicago lawmaker is now leading a Democratic rebellion against this backdrop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028040","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}