In yet another display of its ongoing war on Christian faith, Major League Baseball has issued an official warning to three San Francisco Giants pitchers who dared to write Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
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And by ‘warning’ we mean threat, because what follows a warning in sports? Most likely a fine. Or, you know, as per Rule 3.03 of the official MLB Rulebook, a non-conforming player can be barred from participating in the game.
While the league under Commissioner Rob Manfred eagerly green-lights rainbow alterations and perpetually bows to the LGBT alphabet mafia, it is drawing a firm line at players subtly referencing God’s word.
It’s shameful. Utterly shameful.
According to The Athletic, MLB is putting its collective foot down after San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp and two of his teammates dared to add Bible verses to their ‘Pride Night’ caps. Bible verses, mind you, that explain the true symbolism of the rainbow—God’s covenant with Noah, his descendants, and every living creature after the great flood.
“Similar behavior will not be tolerated,” the report ominously reads.
That warning is backed up by a statement given by Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communications officer, to Outsports.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” Courtney wrote.
After three San Francisco Giants pitchers appeared in Friday’s game with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps, MLB issued a warning that similar behavior will not be tolerated.
More details: https://t.co/7HLiCoQMC6 pic.twitter.com/bMtChVZw8P
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) June 16, 2026
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Here’s the good news for Courtney, Manfred, and anyone in the front offices of Major League Baseball who are down with this threat against religious players: It’s a free country. And, as a free country, they have every right to screw all the way off, take their little ‘pride’ hats, and, as the Rock famously and poetically once stated, shove them straight up … well, you know the rest.
First of all, making minor alterations to baseball caps and uniforms has been going on for decades. The Pittsburgh Pirates wore a circular “21” patch on their sleeves to honor Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente after he died in a plane crash in 1972. After Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett’s death in 2006, multiple players wrote his initials (KP) or uniform number (34) on their caps as a public salute.
No warnings.
MLB additionally has no problem with players altering their caps and uniforms when it suits the league’s agenda. Every year during Players’ Weekend, the league officially encourages colorful custom numbers, nicknames, and personal messages on the sides of caps.
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Perhaps more apples to apples, Los Angeles Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw, just last season, added the same exact Bible verse—Genesis 9:12-16—to his hat. Did they allow it because Kershaw is a future Hall of Famer and Roupp isn’t quite at that level?
BREAKING: Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw wrote “Genesis 9:12-16” on his ‘pride’ hat.
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and… pic.twitter.com/mPU94lYPxk— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) June 14, 2025
Second, warning players about altering their caps in any fashion is incredibly rich when the ‘Pride Night’ hats are, themselves, an altered version of the uniform.
If MLB wants to enforce uniformity across all team hats and jerseys, then, by all means, do so. But that would entail taking the rainbow patches out of the game, and Manfred doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to even think about doing that.
They love ‘Pride Night’ as a revenue-generator. (Pride and greed are staple attributes of the Seven Deadly Sins, by the way.)
And they don’t mind openly mocking Catholics and Christians, having previously and controversially celebrated the drag queen group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) to mock religious believers back in 2023.
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Kershaw, incidentally, defiantly criticized MLB over that fiasco as well.
“I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions,” he said at the time. “It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion.”
Manfred and the league have no problem mocking religion. They’ve demonstrated a willingness to do so repeatedly. It’s just a warning now, but what happens when Roupp and others in MLB decide to fight back against the threats?
In reality, this isn’t about rule violations. It’s about whose beliefs MLB is willing to tolerate. The message to Christian players is crystal clear: your faith is unwelcome on the field.
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