The San Francisco Giants manager said he would stay off the field during the anthem “until I feel better about the direction of our country.”
: “I see nothing more American than standing up for what you believe in. I see nothing more patriotic than peaceful protests when things are frustrating and upsetting.”
In his blog post this week, Kapler decried politicians who “decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are more important than our children’s freedom to go to school without needing bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills” and lamented that police in Uvalde.
But he told reporters that he needed several days to crystallize his thinking on the issue and to articulate them to others.“I knew that I was not in my best space mentally and I knew that it was in connection with some of the hypocrisy of standing for the national anthem and how it coincided with the moment of silence and how those two things didn’t sync up well for me, but I wasn’t quite sure, I couldn’t make sense of it in real time,” Kapler said.
Kapler, 46, is in his third season managing the Giants. He managed the Philadelphia Phillies in 2018 and 2019.
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