Ryan Brasier Posted Video Mocking Former Celtics Coach Tearfully Talking About Racism After Red Sox Refused To Play On Thursday (Then Cowardly Deleted It When Asked About It)

It's good to know which players on your favourite baseball team support a man who is infamous for his racist, sexist, and xenophobic comments and behaviour, who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by at least 25 women and underage girls, who expresses a desire to maim, gas, and pierce the flesh of immigrant families, who separated nearly 70,000 infants and young children from their parents and imprisons them in concentration camps (thousands of whom were sexually assaulted), whose deliberate and premeditated actions have led to deaths of over 200,000 Americans in only six months, and who still refuses to do anything to stop the spread of a deadly virus, who has spoken more than 20,000 lies in his 3.5 years in office, who has committed hundreds of other vile, obscene, deranged, and criminal acts (such as disseminating Soviet propaganda, doing canned bean commercials from the Oval Office, and rigging an election in broad daylight), and who takes such unabashed pride in his staggering ignorance of everything.

I like knowing how Ryan Brasier sees the world and the names of the people he respects. ... And I can be glad when he's off my team.

John Tomase (NBC Sports Boston) reported that Brasier retweeted a video mocking former Celtics coach Doc Rivers discussing racial inequality.

After [I] asked [on Friday morning] why he had posted the video, Brasier deleted it from his timeline. He did not respond to requests for comment through the team. ...

The Red Sox had decided not to play [on Thursday night] out of respect to Jackie Bradley ...

Around 9 p.m. ... three hours after the Red Sox and Blue Jays issued a joint statement decrying America's "continued police brutality and social inequity," Brasier retweeted a video from conservative commentators The Hodgetwins entitled, "Doc Rivers crying over Jacob Blake."

An emotional Rivers had choked up on Tuesday while discussing the latest case of police brutality after a white Wisconsin officer shot Blake seven times in the back in front of his children. ...

The Hodgetwins video mocked Rivers as a puppet. "I feel like I'm watching a puppet show," one of the brothers said. "It looks like somebody's got you on some strings. Somebody's got to be pulling your strings. You can't be that naïve." ...

That video was one in a flurry of retweets from Brasier, who also linked to a Donald Trump campaign video claiming the president had delivered on a promise to bring real change to our nation's cities, retweeted the president claiming that, "The Ten Most Dangerous Cities in the U.S. are ALL run by Democrats, and this has gone on for DECADES!" and linked to multiple videos of UFC founder Dana White supporting Trump and decrying efforts to defund the police. Brasier left those tweets up, which he had posted during the Republican National Convention. ...

Until Thursday night, Brasier hadn't made any overtly political tweets or retweets since May, when he retweeted praise of Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott. ...

While Brasier is entitled to his beliefs, the timing certainly raised eyebrows ... just a day after no teammates except backup catcher Kevin Plawecki had inquired about how [Bradley] felt in the wake of growing player unrest across other sports.

Also good to know Plawecki has empathy. I'm not sure what the hell is wrong with Bradley's other 26 teammates.