Former MLB star catcher Jonathan Lucroy opened up about coping with Main League Baseball’s personal anthem-kneeling controversy through the shortened 2020 season.
Gamers knelt throughout “The Star-Spangled Banner” amid a summer time of racial rigidity sparked by the homicide of George Floyd. Lucroy stated he was requested to kneel however denied the request. He didn’t say the crew he was on, however he spent the 2020 season with the Boston Crimson Sox and Philadelphia Phillies.
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Jonathan Lucroy, #12 of the Boston Crimson Sox, warms up earlier than an intrasquad sport throughout Summer season Exercises at Fenway Park on July 12, 2020 in Boston. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photos)
“I posted about it on Twitter the opposite day however throughout my profession like there was quite a lot of issues that occurred and I don’t wish to get particular and name out groups or something like that, that’s not what I’m doing,” he instructed Charly Arnolt on Tuesday on “OutKick the Morning.”
“However you already know typically, you already know these groups they arrive down, and so they don’t need you to be politically, they don’t need you to be politically polarizing. They don’t need you to lean a sure method, they only need you to remain impartial and form of preserve your mouth shut, however the issue is I used to be with a crew that instructed me to kneel for the anthem, and I gave them the finger, and I’m like no, I’ll by no means do this. By no means, ever, ever, You’re not going to make me, there may be nothing you’re – I’m not doing that.
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Former Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy waves to followers after formally retiring as a Brewer earlier than a sport towards the Cincinnati Reds at American Household Area. (Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“We had been instructed by a crew to get the vaccine. And if we didn’t get the vaccine, we couldn’t see our household for 3 months. Now that got here down from the CDC, to MLB, which was then handed alongside to the groups in order that wasn’t the groups’ fault, however the kneeling for the anthem half was a giant subject for me. That was a number of years in the past and that basically turned me on to the tradition conflict that we struggle.”
Lucroy opened up concerning the anthem-kneeling subject in a put up on X earlier this month.
Lucroy performed 12 seasons with 9 completely different groups, most of which was spent with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers drafted Lucroy out of Louisiana-Lafayette within the third spherical in 2007.
Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy, #20, waits his flip within the batting cage earlier than enjoying the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park in Pittsburgh on April 18, 2015. (Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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He hit .274 with 108 house runs. He was an All-Star in 2014 and 2016.
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