Dodgers fans see all that is wrong with MLB in pathetic Buster Posey 'press conference'

Even Los Angeles Dodgers fans' ears perked up when the San Francisco Giants abruptly announced on Tuesday that president of baseball operations Buster Posey would be speaking to the media.

There were any number of issues Posey could've addressed. Just the day before, Rafael Devers put himself back into the viral news cycle when he refused to be replaced with a pinch-runner in the bottom of the ninth of a one-run game. The Giants went on to lose, sinking them deeper into fourth place in the NL West (which is really last place, because the Rockies don't count).

Nothing has worked out for the Giants this season, and they already expect to be sellers at the trade deadline. Posey could've talked about that, or Devers, or taken some accountability for how bad his team has been or how strange his hiring of manager Tony Vitello was.

Any of that would've made more sense than what Posey actually did.

He gave a short, prepared statement on the Giants' Pride Night controversy, which caused a stir over 10 days before. He took no stances and offered no specifics. He sort of just ... acknowledged that there was a controversy, before insisting that he would only be answering baseball-related questions from that point on.

Some writers in the scrum did their due diligence and pressed Posey further on the Pride Night issue. He refused to engage, but didn't shy away from providing insufficient answers to other questions. He was asked if Devers would play that night: "Yes, I think." He was asked if Devers should speak to the media more: "Everyone should be themselves." He was asked about Vitello's place in brewing clubhouse strife: "Tony has the locker room."

Why did he even bother calling the press conference?

Buster Posey embarrassed Giants further over Pride Night controversy

The Dodgers do not have a perfect track record when it comes to how they stage their Pride Nights and reach out to LGBTQ+ fans, because baseball as a whole hasn't figured out how to hold the traditionalism of the game and the undeniable political leanings of everyone from its owners, players, and fans alongside the existence of queer fans.

Baseball, as a whole, doesn't know how to reconcile that we even exist. Teams are afraid of isolating their dominant audience by embracing a minority, but they are not prepared to be brought to task by that minority when they deserve to be.

But San Francisco is home to the highest percentage of LGBTQ+ adults of any metropolitan area in the United States. The Giants have more of a responsibility to their LGBTQ+ fans than perhaps any other team in Major League Baseball.

Posey spent the entirety of his playing career in San Francisco and was a beloved member of three Giants championship teams. He's spent almost two decades living in one of the gayest cities in the country.

With all of that in mind, Giants fans are and should be upset about how Posey has chosen to represent not just himself but his team. They deserved a better explanation than the nothing they got. Queer fans as a whole deserve better than everything we've gotten this season. And it's yet another reason why the Giants continue to sink to the bottom of the division as they search for the identity they lost over a decade ago.

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