VIERA, Fla. — A quickly-pitch softball team was sharply criticized by U.S. star Cat Osterman and several of her teammates soon after it tweeted to President Donald Trump that its gamers were standing for the countrywide anthem and respecting the flag.
The Scrap Lawn Dawgs played USSSA Delight on Monday evening in Florida. The since-deleted tweet involved a image of the Dawgs standing and examine: “Hey @realDonaldTrump Pro Fastpitch being performed reside @usssaspacecoast @USSSAPride Absolutely everyone respecting the FLAG!”
The 37-year-aged Osterman tweeted right after the match that she did not support the comments by the group and “will not symbolize them.” Monica Abbott, a further U.S. pitcher headed to the Tokyo Olympics next 12 months, said in a statement that she disagreed with the team’s information.
“Being blind sided, with a tweet like this in the middle of the game, is the utter most disrespect to my Black teammates, all athletes and supporters,” Abbott stated in her Twitter submit. “And this is not satisfactory.”
Usa Softball claimed Tuesday in a statement on its Twitter account that it “fully supports” all countrywide staff customers and their legal rights to express their beliefs.
Osterman explained to the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday that the workforce is “walking absent from Scrap Property and will not use Scrap Garden uniforms.”
“For now, we’re 15 or 16 girls and coaches who really don’t have an corporation,” she said. “Now we have to come to a decision if we want to carry on participating in and what that would glance like.”
It was the very first recreation for Scrap Lawn considering that the coronavirus pandemic shut down sporting activities all in excess of the globe. The Dawgs are an impartial workforce primarily based in Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston.
A message was remaining Tuesday night time trying to get remark from the crew.
Osterman reported common supervisor Connie May perhaps sent the tweet, and the gamers spoke to her right after the video game.
“The GM tried using to defend her tweet by indicating it came from a good spot in her heart and that she was happy of us taking the subject and getting in a position to unite, so to talk,” Osterman told the Chronicle.
“This crew is very united. We were very pleased to consider the discipline, and it would have been a platform for exhibiting that sports can continue on. Nevertheless, it was hijacked by being political.”
