Aubrey Huff blasts ‘politically correct’ S.F. Giants for shutting him out of reunion
Former San Francisco Giants star Aubrey Huff won’t be welcome at a reunion of the 2010 World Series team following his controversial online comments on social and political issues, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“Earlier this month, we reached out to Aubrey Huff to let him know that he will not be included in the upcoming 2010 World Series Championship reunion,” a statement released Monday by the team says, according to The Mercury News.
“Aubrey has made multiple comments on social media that are unacceptable and run counter to the values of our organization,” the statement continues, according to the publication. “While we appreciate the many contributions that Aubrey made to the 2010 championship season, we stand by our decision.”
That evoked a strong reaction from Huff.
“Quite frankly, shocked. Disappointed,” Huff responded, The Athletic reported. “If it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be having a reunion. But if they want to stick with their politically correct, progressive bullsh*t, that’s fine.”
In a post to Twitter, Huff claimed he was told he’d been banned for his support of President Donald Trump. He defended his other controversial comments as “satirical and sarcastic,” describing them as “locker room humor.”
“We live in a country that is under attack,” Huff wrote on Twitter. “Society is desperately trying to take away our 1st Amendment, our freedom of speech and our freedom of political association.”
Huff, now 43, batted .294 with a home run and 4 RBI in the 2010 World Series, Fox News reported. He also played on San Francisco’s 2012 championship team.
He has come under fire for online comments, including one in which he said he trained his sons to fire “head shots” with their guns in case Bernie Sanders won the 2020 election and another in which he suggested the U.S. kidnap Iranian women to “feed us grapes,” The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
A San Francisco radio host cut short an interview with Huff about the reunion Tuesday morning when the retired player doubled down on his comments about Alyssa Nakken, hired by the Giants as the first female major-league coach, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Expounding on his belief that women should not coach traditionally male sports such as baseball, Huff added, “I wouldn’t want to coach women’s sports. Women are tough enough to deal with anyway,” according to the publication.
After a few more exchanges about the appropriateness of Huff’s comments, host Joe Fortenbaugh on 95.7 FM told his engineer, “Hang up on him. We’re done,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
This story was originally published February 18, 2020 at 7:35 AM.