But the Mets also had a habit of showing opposing players on the kiss cam – their image framed inside of a heart – as a gag. “We apologize for doing so and no longer will include players in the feature”.
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New Yorker Etan Bednarsh, a lifelong Mets fan from the moment he saw catcher Todd Hundley hit a home run, first witnessed the gag in April at a Mets game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Said Bednarsh: “I’m thrilled”. Let’s use this as an opportunity, I’d say to the Mets.
The maneuver, likely meant in jest, was blasted by many through social media until the team announced Wednesday the kiss-cam was not the hill it wanted to die on.
Bednarsh, a diehard Mets fan, told HuffPost Live Thursday that he doesn’t remember the Mets featuring two players on the Kiss Cam until this season. Now they’re cleaning up in-game entertainment so fans won’t want to leave. Don’t just stop doing that.
“Tell me what the joke is without getting back to the basic sentence that the joke is the idea of two male athletes kissing, or two men kissing”.
Over the 2015 season – in which the Mets have climbed to first place in their division – others joined in, calling the team “imbeciles” and “homophobic”. One other diminished attribute I think was required to do along with complaints is in fact how we won’t notice the sumo rebel advertisement now at which 2 different people in exaggerated right up “fat suits” will come upon one another. Bean, who is openly gay, went to camp to train the team and its staff on how to be more LGBT-friendly, CBS Sports reports.
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“It’s no secret sports is still a really rough place for LGBTQ players and fans,” Bednarsh said to CNN this week.
