David Price wanted his followers to see a tweet about ‘the white Sox’ going to the White House
Price has previously said he would not go to the White House because the trip fell during the season.
The Red Sox are scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday, but a number of high-profile team members, including manager Alex Cora and right fielder Mookie Betts, won’t be there.
Many Red Sox players of color have said they will skip the ceremony at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The Athletic columnist Steve Buckley noted this in a tweet Sunday and wrote: “So basically it’s the white Sox who’ll be going.”
On Monday, David Price quote tweeted Buckley’s words to his 1.8 million Twitter followers and said that he felt more people than Buckley’s 38,200 followers should see what Buckley wrote.
I just feel like more than 38k should see this tweet… https://t.co/BtbK0DNPQc
— David Price (@DAVIDprice24) May 6, 2019
Later Monday, Price told The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier that he shared the tweet because it was “an insensitive tweet that needs to be seen by more people.”
David Price clarified his meaning behind the Tweet/retweet: ‘It was an insensitive Tweet that needs to be seen by more people. That’s what it was.’ https://t.co/g0rFXemllv
— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) May 6, 2019
Price reportedly told MLB Network’s John Heyman in April he had one reason for not going to the White House.
“‘It’s baseball season,’ was all Price said about that,” Heyman tweeted on April 18.
