But it's a no-win in the current climate. Most of these guys are not that politically engaged and baseball skews whiter than the NBA and NFL so you get a lot more Aubrey Huff/Curt Schilling/Tony LaRussa types in the League, so they very likely have been normalized to it to a certain degree. Sean Doolittle is very much an aberration.

I think most guys just want to stay out of the politics, but you can't really do that in 2019. There's really no neutral out there, maybe there never was but the perception of it has vanished. Steve Kerr talking about immigration but not China becomes a thing. I am not old enough to remember if John Thompson took shit for being on the SI cover with Reagan at the time, but I never heard about it since.

Regardless, I'm sure Kurt Suzuki just got himself a bit part in the next Kevin Sorbo/Dean Cain low budget feature.