Former Reliever, Minnesota Twins Bullpen Coach,Immaculate Grid Icon, and Patrick Mahomes Godfather LaTroy Hawkins posts his support for Pride Month
LaTroy has done this yearly for a while now
My fun story is I thanked him at TwinsFest (The official Twins fan event run by the Minnesota Twins, his employer) for his Pride Month posts and he said “thank you” paused, looked around to see if there were kids nearby, and went “I love posting it, it pisses them off, I dont give a fuck, I fucking love it”. Glen Perkins was next to him dying laughing
also want to point out he posted this AN HOUR AGO, our game started at 1:10 , he deadass posted this on the clock
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What’s the significant of the time? I’m OOL
He 100% posted this at target field
And I’m sorry, what’s the significance of that?
Hes shitposting on the clock as a major league coach
He’s coaching at the game. Probably said hold on fellas, posted this, then said ok back to work for our game that just started.
He posted it while he was on the field working lol.
This is FANTASTIC
Me if I was famous:
Hell yeah brother
I got to go on the field for batting practice at Citi when he was a Met, and it was right after he had passed Cy Young in career appearances. I congratulated him on that and he joked “probably the only thing I’ll pass him for”. Really nice and funny guy. Now I’m an ever bigger fan of his.
The quick scan for nearby kids before unleashing the most heartfelt profanity imaginable is what really sells this story. 😂
Read this as “TwinkFest” and was worried I missed one!
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(Sorry the Rangers’ owners aren’t more chill, hang in there!)
hell yeah brother
That rocks, good for him
Awesome. Love to hear it.
Blue Jays legend LaTroy Hawkins. Closed out half of our division wins since the strike.
And he’s out here still shutting shit down
Cubs legend Latroy Hawkins! Loved him with us as a kid.
Haha I was like “he wasn’t a Blue Jay for long, was he?” then realized you’re only talking about 2 division wins in that time 😜 more than some teams though!
Bro you didn’t have to say that lol
Hey, you implied it 😂
more than some teams though!
33 years and counting!
Mets legend LaTroy Hawkins!
Cubs legend LaTroy Hawkins
Rockies legend LaTroy Hawkins
He was here for the best Rockies season!
Yankees Legend LaTroy Hawkins, baby!
Brewers legend LaTroy Hawkins! Streets remember him and Saito pitching lights out for the Crew.
That’s horribly depressing as a Franchise since the strike was 31 years ago and he’s been retired for 10+ years
Mahomes and his wife probably malding right now
Maybe i’m mistaken but i thought it was only Brit Mahomes who leaned in that direction while Patrick remained politically neutral, at least to the public eye.
Yeah this is mostly me making an assumption that if you marry someone like that you’re probably at least pretty comfortable with their views and probably share them. But athletes are pretty head empty so who knows
I think Mahomes is smart enough to not be publicly political like that in an effort to protect his own brand (like, you won’t see him wearing red hats or all the other political merch, or posting on social media about political stuff), but yeah…
1000% agreed
If it’s just you and your wife in bed, and she’s a Nazi. That does reflect upon you.
“If there’s a Nazi in the bed and ten other people laying there talking to him, you got a bed with eleven Nazis.”
And a big ass bed
Or tiny Nazis
His name is Greg Bovino
As if the averaged Redditor wouldn’t bang a nazi if she was more than a 2⁄10
Just because you would doesn’t mean that depravity applies to the rest of us.
There’s no way you can believe mahomes doesn’t think like his wife lol
Mahomes can have literally anything he wants and he chose her grifting ass. Brit and Pats brother are the worst.
He’s rich so it’s kinda safe to say where he stands
His mom is ultra MAGA too. We don’t know with Patrick but it certainly seems one way
If Pride doesn’t bother some of y’all, then why the downvotes? How does Pride Month affect you in any way, shape, or form? Genuinely curious.
Well you see, anything that takes attention away from me, a straight white guy, for even one minute is indicative of the downfall of Western civilization.
American Dad: “I miss simpler times when white males had all the power instead of most of it”
“I was a straight man born into an upper middle-class white family, nobody gave me a chance!”
Lol, this genuinely made me laugh. As a woman, I find men who are allies far more attractive than bigots, but hey, that’s just me. 😅🤷🏻♀️
Women are attracted to men who see them as actual people? HAS WOKE GONE TOO FAR!?
but that’s not what the manosphere has been telling young men! you mean to say they’re liars??
omg I can’t believe Andrew Tate, the world’s most trustworthy guy, has not been entirely honest with me.
would you like a column in the Atlantic?
It’s funny, they’ll call others snowflakes but then meltdown when reminded that LGBTQ+ people exist.
The homophobes are a bunch of snowflakes that won’t comment, but they’ll downvote every single comment.
It negatively affects the political movement that they support and rather than thinking about what actual personal impact it has they see downvoting and criticising anything rainbow as giving “their side” run support.
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I’m supportive of pride month and I think it’s lame as fuck when players (or entire teams) opt out of it. But regardless of how I feel about that, I don’t come to this sub to see some random ex-MLB player’s social media post, I come here to see baseball being discussed
eBay Latroy Hawkins twins jersey
Bro you do not know how much ive tried to find one
My white whale is the Twins Turn Ahead the Clock LaTroy
https://imgur.com/a/QADZ89q
Turn ahead the clock is the best thing that has ever happened to baseball (imo)
Aside from ten-cent beer nights
That was the best thing to happen to America
Integration was ok as well
I loved Turn Ahead the Clock nights. Mariners did one with a maroon coloring and the logo was off twisted 15 degrees or so. It was always something teams would never end up doing, so it was cool to see them get imaginative
I still remember the 1999⁄2000 iterations. So much chrome and digital watch fonts
DHGate. Just customize the number and name.
Holy based
If Cocks could fly my mouth would be an airport
“Come again?”
“Oh, they will.”
Rockies absolute legend. Love this guy
My Quick Pitch King
Blake Treinen and Alex Call are proud straight guys to stand together and embraced each other to show the world how secure they are about themselves and extra effort to not wear those rainbow hats they’re definitely and totally not gay and would never have those type of thoughts when they slap each others butts in the clubhouse.
More than that they are showing how much they love God (the Father) and Jesus. Everyone involved of course is male.
And we just unveiled a permanent memorial for Burke and Bean. Someone go check on Treinen’s Charlie Kirk hat ☠️😂
The way I look at it, it’s just baseball but in the bigger picture of things. Imagine some “closeted” gay players or fans in those backward states learn about about the Burke memorial when they visit Dodgers stadium and they’re like Hey Bubba, how come your Dodger fan now, I thought we’re here all cheering for the Texas Rangers, what’s a matter with you?
He can be like, nah, the Ranger don’t do it for me. I’m free now. j/k
Kershaw somewhere punching the air
Massive W
cant spell latroy hawkins w/o wins
Baaaased
Support the lgbtq community always!
Big ally energy!!!
Always liked him, yet another reason.
LaTroy has always been a real one
LaTroy has a spot in my heart. And now it’s bigger. GG buddy.
🫶🏼 👑
Goat
All the support is appreciated as a queer fan 😭
I met him at spring training his final season with the rockies, he was incredibly nice. I was down there with a group of kids that were going through cancer treatments, he took me into the clubhouse and gave me a free hat and signed bat. Super kind man.
Great move. A few years ago Toronto had to deal with a pitcher who decided to be a homophobic ass during pride.
I was at the next game he played. I’m sure it’s an absolute coincidence, that with the roof open, we could see the CN Tower light up with rainbow pattern the second he put a foot on the mound
God I remember shitposting about LaTroy Hawkins on the SomethingAwful forums back in the day. He’s been goated forever
I always waited reluctantly for pride month to roll around and see all the hateful comments but now it’s kinda fun to see homophobes get so much hate and pride get louder.
TIL LaTroy Hawkins is Patrick Mahomes’ godfather.
This is not the first time LaTroy Hawkins has posted this.
I miss him in the booth of Twins games. Dude stirs the pot like no one else.
Kershaw fell to his knees in the parking lot of a canceled Morgan Wallen concert
Ok
W Hawkins
Hell yeah! Was fortunate enough to chat with LaTroy a couple years ago before a game in Cleveland (back when they’d let fans in for visiting BP) — super cool dude. Ended up talking with us for about 20-30 minutes and gained a ton of respect for him. That’s increased exponentially after seeing this!
Nice
What a boss
Awesome!
Proud he was briefly a Giant
Love this and love him for this.
#BASED
hated to be the 7778th upvote because 7777 looked cool but couldn’t upvote this fast enough 🌈
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Already liked this guy. Now I like him more.
Brb digging out my Latroy Hawkins Gary Railcats bobblehead
I got this dude’s premier prospects foil card. That’s all. Sort of a shame that was a standout from my peak openings back in the day.
Cubs and Gary, Indiana legend LaTroy Hawkins
Ok I forgive him for temporarily stealing paul o Neill’s number
#ForeverGiant LaTroy Hawkins
Blue Jays Legend!!! 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
King
God dammit, stop making me like the Twins.
Brewers legend
Based on
Orioles legend
GOD SHIT LATROY
Based
Thats like, 70% of the Dodgers
I went to a fair few games when he was playing for the twins. Legit.
Basedbasedbased
Incredibly based
Holy shit, that is an immaculate grid legend. Will be adding him my Dotel, Kimbrel, and Tavarez rotation of relievers who have been everywhere. Honorable mentions to Dick Mountain and Bartolo
Throw Billy Hamilton in there
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Legend.
Brave
And?
People don’t realize how important this shit is. Simple but strong and effective. Especially in these macho sports cultures. Just became bigger fan of Latroy.
End of the day does anybody give a shit either way? You think the pandering is changing anybody’s mind? You think a homophobe is going “Wow Latroy Hawkins has a rainbow flag in his social media! Maybe I’ve been wrong this whole time!”
Visibility and support are meaningful, yes
Yeah took an L from a guy that has 20K more karma than me. Who is the antisocial one, Me or the guy that lives on the internet? Lmao
I’m pleasantly surprised about all the Pride posts here this year!
You’re surprised that Reddit is filled with supportive pride posts? Lmao
Yeah honestly even if you support them why would you be surprised one of the leftist capitals of the Internet is putting out pride month propaganda?
Propaganda? There’s nothing wrong with people wanting to be proud of who they are. We deserve to exist, and we deserve to express ourselves.
Well if you ask the average Redditor on a main sub like politics, they’ll say Reddit caters to conservatives.
Which is a special level of delusional, so on par for the average Redditor
Their definition of caters is “They’re allowed to exist” lol
Looks like you’re one of the people who’s going to have a super uncomfortable month.
I originally wrote my post and stand by it thinking about last year’s Jackie Robinson Press release: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1k06hxj/mlb_2025_jackie_robinson_day_press_release_is/
I truely was not expecting as many Pride Posts as there are.
Blake Treinen
