Five glaring reasons why Major League Baseball should immediately stop celebrating Pride Night | Jon Root

For years, Major League Baseball has promoted Pride Nights as a way to celebrate and support the LGBTQ community. After multiple teams in the early 2000s held "gay days" and LGBTQ awareness nights at their ballparks, including the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, by 2016 more than a dozen MLB teams were hosting official Pride Nights. Now every team except the Texas Rangers hold a Pride Night each season.

Pride Nights became a norm in MLB as a way to acknowledge...