Josh Hawley calls it 'great outcome' MLB commissioner admitted wrongdoing in Giants Pride Night cap situation

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., received a missive from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred regarding the San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses connected their Pride Night caps, saying they wouldn’t beryllium facing immoderate subject for what has present been labeled a arguable moment.

Hawley, making an quality connected "The Will Cain Show," was blessed with the effect from Manfred and MLB.

"It looks similar they’re admitting they’re wrong, Will, which is precisely the case," Hawley told Cain. "I mean, the commissioner admitted successful that missive that helium should not person warned ‘the players.’ That they are entitled to not deterioration the uniforms, that they’re entitled to explicit their spiritual beliefs. And helium said, arsenic you conscionable quoted, ‘No subordinate volition ever beryllium disciplined oregon fined for their spiritual beliefs.’

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for lawyer general, during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation proceeding successful the Hart Senate Office Building connected Jan. 15, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"I don’t frankly attraction who helium blames for it truthful agelong arsenic helium admits that he’s wrong, truthful agelong arsenic players’ spiritual liberty rights are protected."

Hawley added that helium believed this was a "great outcome" contempt the information that helium needed to scope retired to MLB astir it.

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"I privation to stress this is the commissioner of shot responding to me," helium explained. "He said that nary player, connected immoderate club, volition beryllium required to deterioration these kinds of political-messaging uniforms. Furthermore, nary 1 volition beryllium discriminated against connected the ground of their spiritual faith.

"Now, that ought to beryllium communal sense, Will. The information we had to spell done each of this — I had to endanger to bring him successful beforehand of the Senate, enactment him nether oath. He’s being investigated, the league is for different things. All of that is ridiculous. It was anserine connected the portion of Major League Baseball to bash immoderate of this, but I’m gladsome they admitted they were wrong.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Landen Roupp wrote "Genesis 9:12-16" connected his Pride-Night themed hat. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

"It’s close that Major League Baseball admits they had a large screw-up here, and it’s close that the archetypal amendment is protected successful Major League Baseball. I anticipation it volition beryllium moving forward."

One Giants subordinate opted retired of wearing the Pride Night chapeau connected June 12 astatine Oracle Park. Reliever Sam Hentges wore the team’s modular achromatic and orangish chapeau during the crippled instead.

But it was pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker who each wrote Bible verses during to the rainbow logo connected the Giants caps during the team’s crippled that sparked controversy. Roupp penned "Gen 9:12-16" connected his cap, which references a transition from Genesis describing the rainbow arsenic a motion of God’s covenant aft the flood.

MLB had initially said the penning violated league rules against players altering their uniforms oregon equipment. And successful the missive to Hawley, Manfred noted the regularisation was collectively bargained with the MLBPA, and it prohibits players from writing, attaching, affixing, embroidering oregon different displaying messages connected apparel oregon equipment.

San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello lifts starting pitcher Landen Roupp during the 5th inning against the Chicago Cubs astatine Oracle Park successful San Francisco, Calif., connected June 12, 2026. (John Hefti/Imagn Images)

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"The argumentation is enforced without respect to the substance of the messaging," Manfred wrote successful his letter. The intent of the regularisation is to forestall players from displaying immoderate governmental oregon societal messaging, but state of religion falls nether the archetypal amendment, which was Hawley’s argument, and others, each along.

"Let’s get backmost to God and state and playing immoderate baseball, and halt each these woke garbage," Hawley concluded.

OutKick's Dan Zaksheske contributed to this report.

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