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Atlanta Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb apologized Sunday for a series of offensive tweets he sent as a teenager, calling them "some stupid stuff.''
The 25-year-old Newcomb spoke less than an hour after nearly pitching a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The tweets were sent in 2011 and 2012, when Newcomb was a senior in high school.
One tweet included a racial epithet that was part of a rap lyric, and several others contained gay slurs.
"I just wanted to apologize for any insensitive material,'' Newcomb said. "It was a long time ago, six or seven years ago, saying some stupid stuff with friends.''
Sean Newcomb of Atlanta Braves 'regrets' offensive tweets
During Tuesday's All-Star Game, Hader's first as a big leaguer, tweets he sent as a 17-year-old surfaced -- messages filled with racist, homophobic and misogynist sentiments. Hader discovered the reporting of the years-old messages after his outing, and he answered hard questions about them after the game.
"[The last four days] haven't been good," Hader said. "I regret the mistakes that I made in the past. That doesn't resemble the person I am now."
Hader expressed enough contrition in his postgame comments Tuesday that neither Major League Baseball nor the Brewers decided to suspend him. Instead, he was ordered to undergo sensitivity training
Josh Hader apologizes to Milwaukee Brewers teammates for tweets
There are some hard core racists in MLB. I would guessing there are a lot more Hader's and Newcomb's in MLB.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...newcomb-old-tweets-homophobic-slur/860510002/
Here are Newcomb's actually tweets.
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