One month ago today Jared Porter lost his job with the New York Mets because he hit on a hot chick. Yep, really...welcome to the wacky clown world which is 2021.
Not having overreacted to this less-than-minor incident enough already, last week the Chicago Cubs changed their hiring policy to...delve deeper into employee's backgrounds to find even more perfectly acceptable behaviour to declare so beyond-the-pale as to leave the candidate unhireable.
On top of that, Major League Baseball announced the creation of an anonymous creepy snitch line, where you could anonymously make claims that MLB players or employees did anything that you personally dislike in an attempt to have them fired.
“… MLB and its Clubs will continue to strive to create environments in which individuals feel accepted; and when they do not, they feel comfortable speaking up without fear of recrimination, retaliation, or ostracism,”
How about, say, conservative players and staff who want to pull a Curt Schilling, and speak out in favour of their (superior) worldview? Will they continue to "feel accepted" and be able to "speak up without fear of recrimination"? Don't hold your breath.
As I established last month, Porter did nothing wrong. Mickey Callaway is accused of...sending text messages to girls that were sexual in nature. So Callaway, too, did nothing wrong. And the MLB witch-hunt into men trying to pick up women will continue. And yet, not a single piece of evidence that actual unacceptable behaviour has occurred.
This is why major league sports are losing viewers: who wants to live in an ugly woke world where men can't express interest in the opposite sex, while child molesters are celebrated?
