{"id":459248,"date":"2021-04-27T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459248"},"modified":"2021-04-27T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:11:20","slug":"cleveland-indians-gm-says-players-free-to-make-their-own-choices-after-pitcher-compares-vaccine-panic-to-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cleveland-indians-gm-says-players-free-to-make-their-own-choices-after-pitcher-compares-vaccine-panic-to-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Indians GM Says Players \u2018Free To Make Their Own Choices\u2019 After Pitcher Compares Vaccine Panic To Nazi Germany"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fcleveland-indians-gm-says-players-free-to-make-their-own-choices-after-pitcher-compares-vaccine-panic-to-nazi-germany%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=459248&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3924.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"47.950530888031\">\n<p>The Cleveland Indians General Manager Chris Antonetti said that players in the baseball club are \u201cfree to make their own choices and decisions\u201d regarding their stance on the vaccine after a player compared the vaccine panic to Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Antonetti told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/indians-players-pitcher-anti-vaccine-stance-gm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> on Tuesday that he had spoken with Indians pitcher James Karinchak regarding a controversial social media post he had made a few days earlier regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/22\/joe-biden-hhs-coronavirus-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">push for Americans to take the COVID vaccine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of our players and staff opted for the vaccine and continue to follow the protocols around mask wearing, and that\u2019s something we\u2019ll continue to engage and support,\u201d Antonetti told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Karinchak posted a quote on his Instagram account on April 6, with a headline in italics and bold that read \u201cNo freedom unless you get a vaccine,\u201d along with a quote from Nazi military leader Hermann Goering.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.8028169014085\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">the nastiest thing about James Karinchak is apparently not his curveball <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjjPWwhKBe\">pic.twitter.com\/KjjPWwhKBe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Becker (@jonbecker_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonbecker_\/status\/1379461703545462784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was very easy, it had nothing to do with Nazism, it has something to do with human nature,\u201d Goering\u2019s quote read. \u201cThe only thing that needs to be done to enslave people is to get them into a state of fear.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/florida-vaccine-coronavirus-double-masking-reopening-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Gov. DeSantis Criticizes Vaccine Messaging: \u2018If You Get A Vaccine \u2026 You\u2019re Immune And So, Act Immune\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karinchak\u2019s post was later taken down after several users criticized him for his comparison and inclusion of the quote, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Defamation League of Cleveland criticized the post as well, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2021\/04\/06\/cleveland-indians-pitcher-makes-controversial-social-media-post-then-deletes-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WOIO<\/a> on April 6, \u201cWhether it is an athlete, a politician, or anyone else, it is simply not appropriate to compare Covid-19 protocols to the Holocaust. Doing so dishonors the memories of those murdered by the Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine took a hit recently after the Johnson &#038; Johnson vaccine was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/confidence-johnson-johnson-vaccine-plummets-cdc-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporarily paused<\/a> earlier in April following reports of serious blood clots in multiple patients, although the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/23\/cdc-acip-johnson-johnson-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted the pause<\/a> later in the month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians General Manager Chris Antonetti said that players in the baseball club are \u201cfree to make their own choices and decisions\u201d regarding their stance on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276801,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3924.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Cleveland Indians GM Says Players \u2018Free To Make Their Own Choices\u2019 After Pitcher Compares Vaccine Panic To Nazi Germany","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3924.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Cleveland Indians GM Says Players \u2018Free To Make Their Own Choices\u2019 After Pitcher Compares Vaccine Panic To Nazi Germany","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459248","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=459248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}