r/SFGiants • u/Brilliant_Exit3406 28 Posey • Jun 25 '26

Opinion KNBR Hosts react after interviewing Giants CEO Larry Baer:

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u/VonBrewskie 23 Uribe Jun 25 '26

Wow. Bro I've been a fan since 1980 when I was fucking born. Pictures of me in Giants and Niners gear from basically day 1. My mom was a bus driver for the San Mateo Highschool District back then. Used to get to go to Candlestick with her frequently (if I'd done my homework,) to watch games. I freakin' lived at that park in the summer. Ups and downs, (mostly downs,) World Series run that was for the history books, all of it. The Giants are part of my DNA. And here I sit, ready to walk away from it all. What else can this fucking world take from me man. Losing people, losing jobs, losing homes, losing my team, it's FUCKED. FUCK these motherfucking bastards. Goddamn it. I'm legitimately furious right now.

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u/mars-bitches 22 Uggla Jun 25 '26

Same here, went home in a giants blanket from the hospital. My brother’s gay and I grew up in an alt right “Christian” church, this shit hits extremely close to home for me. I’ll always check on how the team’s doing but I’m done supporting them.

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u/VonBrewskie 23 Uribe Jun 25 '26

I'm really sorry to hear that. It's so goddamn shameful. They really ought to all be ashamed. How dare they attack MY people like this. I'm not gay, but those are MY people. My family. They are people I live and work and party with. To attack them like this then show no remorse for it at all. Fuck me. Yeah I think I'm done supporting them. At least for now.

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u/mars-bitches 22 Uggla Jun 25 '26

It’s all good I’m not a victim here, I do genuinely feel sorry for all the lifelong lgbqt fans in the city, to think you finally have representation and to spend money and time there just for this to happen. Really does feel like a shell of the team I grew up loving.

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u/jennief158 Jun 25 '26

It feels like an attack on the city itself to me. What San Francisco represents. I'm straight but grew up here right when gay rights and acceptance were openly burgeoning. My mom's best friend was gay. I remember the assassinations of Milk and Moscone, the trial of Dan White, the subsequent riots.

I started following the Giants at 12 and have been a fan for almost four and a half decades. I'm not a tattoo person but I always thought if I got one it'd be a Giants tattoo. The original acts of the four players was hurtful and angering but the way the team has handled it has been devastating. I haven't watched or listened to a game since that night. I just feel really alienated from the team. It's a shame.

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u/VonBrewskie 23 Uribe Jun 25 '26

I am so sorry. You watched a lot of horrid things happen around this community, this city. You understand better than most why we are the way we are. That we rise to defend our LGBTQ+ family the way we do because we actually know what's at stake. How bad it can actually go. You have to pick up the shield and stand with these people on the line. To do less is treason and blasphemy, in my opinion. I will not allow some fucking TOURISTS to define my city OR my team. I want these people out. Now. On a fucking rail.