Major League Baseball great Roger Clemens appeared on The Will Cain Show on Wednesday and weighed in with his opinion on the San Francisco Giants’ Pride Night hat controversy.
The league issued a warning to players not to write on their caps after multiple San Francisco Giants pitchers scribbled Bible verses on their Pride Night hats this past Friday. That warning was an enforcement of, as it states in the MLB Basic Agreement that all players sign, a rule which says “no alterations, writing or illustrations, other than as authorized herein, are to be made to any part of the uniform.”
Many fans, including Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, did not take the warning well and sent a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred questioning the league’s message to the players.
Roger Clemens weighs in on the Giants’ Pride Night hat controversy
Roger Clemens, who should be a no-doubt Hall of Famer had he not allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs, was asked about the issue of MLB asking players to wear Pride Night hats during an appearance on The Will Cain Show.
“I think if you took a vote amongst the players if they were wanting to wear this or that, it would have been a different outcome of what would have been said,” Clemens said. “Alter our uniforms all the time with numbers or somebody that’s passed away. I know that one time in Boston, Larry Bird retired, … they put 33 on in a silver marker on the hat so I could honor Larry Bird.”
“I did it for my Mom and my grandmother. I mean, they were the reason why I was there, and I love it that these guys show that the blessings the Lord has given them to be out there on that field. That’s the way it was for me. Maybe, like I said, like they do the cleats. They do the special cleats where you can paint, do up your cleats, whatever, how you want it. Maybe they do something like that and guys can have a hat with a Bible verse on it.”