{"id":8767,"date":"2026-06-25T00:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/ex-giants-star-aubrey-huff-slams-teams-pride-night-bible-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:33","slug":"ex-giants-star-aubrey-huff-slams-teams-pride-night-bible-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/ex-giants-star-aubrey-huff-slams-teams-pride-night-bible-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Giants Star Aubrey Huff Slams Team&#8217;s Pride Night Bible Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aubrey Huff<\/strong>, who played first base for the Giants between 2010 and 2012, posted the rant on X Wednesday morning in response to general manager <strong>Buster Posey<\/strong>&#8216;s press conference remarks from Tuesday, according to <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy centers on several Giants pitchers who recently wrote Bible verses on their Pride-themed caps, creating a clash between the team&#8217;s Pride Night promotion and religious expression by players.<\/p>\n<p>Huff claimed he knew what Posey truly wanted to say when facing reporters&#8217; questions about the situation, asserting that his views reflected those of most players, coaches, and executives from the Giants&#8217; World Series championship teams.<\/p>\n<p>The former player, who was part of the Giants&#8217; 2010 and 2012 World Series winning squads during the team&#8217;s dynasty that captured three titles in five years, used extremely crude and derogatory language throughout his post.<\/p>\n<p>His statement included vulgar attacks on the LGBTQ community and dismissive comments about baseball viewership, employing slurs and offensive terminology repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Huff has built a reputation for inflammatory statements on social media since his retirement from professional baseball. His latest outburst represents one of his most explicitly offensive posts to date.<\/p>\n<p>The incident highlights ongoing tensions between professional sports organizations&#8217; embrace of progressive social causes and pushback from players who object on religious or personal grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have not yet responded publicly to Huff&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Giants player Aubrey Huff posted a vulgar, homophobic social media rant about the team&#8217;s Pride Night after pitchers wrote Bible verses on their Pride-themed caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":8766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8078,8079,651,6537,6538,6536,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aubrey-huff","tag-buster-posey","tag-california","tag-mlb","tag-pride-night","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}