Doofus Chaplain Takes The Giants’ Pride Night Victimhood To Instagram

The San Francisco Giants are a rotten, poisoned, blighted organization.

I offer to the jury, by way of evidence, the following exhibit: Monday evening a representative of the Giants saw https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/fans-still-furious-giants-pitchers-pride-22352749.php">a story from the San Francisco Chronicle about fans who still feel hurt and angry over the mess the organization made of https://defector.com/mlb-pride-nights-co-opted-and-consumed-by-owners-and-culture-war-freaks">its annual Pride Night celebration, and the front office's https://defector.com/putting-the-buster-in-buster-posey">tepid, quarter-hearted, wildly inadequate response to public outcry.

That team representative then logged onto social media so that they could blame the continuing controversy on online discourse and clickbait reporting.

That representative, hilariously, was the team's chaplain, a man named Christian Huang.

The story Huang was commenting on was published Monday, and it begins with an anecdote about a longtime Giants fan who attended the home game on June 12, had a great time, and then learned after the fact about the Giants pitchers who'd made a spectacle of themselves by scrawling bible passages onto their Pride Night hats, in an act of protest.

The fan, who identifies as queer, was hurt by what they described as players on the team using their uniform and platform as an opportunity to "tell me you hate me." The fan has joined up with others to express this hurt, by writing to the team and also by participating in protest actions.

What Huang took away from this story is not that the Giants biffed Pride Night, that the organization is due for some soul-searching, that its response to the hurt feelings of its fans has been inadequate and embarrassing, and that there is an opportunity to get this right by having someone from the team make a public effort at taking the matter seriously.

Huang's big takeaway is, in fact, that Pride Night was a rousing success, and that media shit-stirring is the only reason that people are now worked up about it.

In comments made under the Chronicle's Instagram post, Huang is just innocently recapping their reporting, as if to provide a helpful TL;DR for busy readers. "To recap, Sarah was not upset until the media's firestorm caused her to be upset," he wrote in a comment.

Down the thread, in response to pushback from a member of the distressingly small minority of commenters who did not just dump out rank bigotry, Huang continued: "Sarah was not upset until she went online.

The experience was great until then.

I'm only recapping the Instagram caption."