I don’t know what’s more offensive: The fact that Matt Dermody is starting for the Red Sox today, or Chaim Bloom’s attempts to explain it away. As Sean McAdam wrote today for MassLive, Dermody tweeted in 2021 that gay people were going to hell, prompting his Japanese team to issue an apology, and, now, creating a 2023 headache for Bloom during an already tense Pride Month across the league. Here’s most of Bloom’s quote from the McAdam piece, emphasis mine:
“It’s important to us that he had taken the tweet down and important why he had done it,” Bloom said.