Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle, a supporter of LGBTQ rights, on Monday tweeted a thoughtful thread addressing how athletes should approach social media mistakes of their past.
The thread comes one day after teammate Trea Turner became the latest in a string of baseball players who have had vulgar, racist or homophobic posts on Twitter unearthed.
“It sucks to see racist and homophobic language coming from inside our league - a league I’m so proud to be a part of that I’ve worked really hard to make a more accepting and inclusive place for all our fans to enjoy,” Doolittle wrote in the first of nine tweets.