If Aubrey Huff is hoping to sell any copies of his upcoming book in San Francisco, he may want to shy away from tweeting about politics in the future.
Huff was blasted on social media after posting two now deleted tweets, praising President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, and the protests that followed last weekend. Here are the Tweets in question as screen-shotted by SFGate
Oddly, Huff’s comments were centered around weekend protests, when most people are off work. People wasted no time pointing this out, and reminded Huff of a certain weekday parade he was involved in in 2010.
@aubrey_huff how do you feel about people attending a parade on a Wednesday?
— Alex Pavlovic (@AlexPavlovic) January 30, 2017
Dude, you pulled a thong out of your pants in front of SF City Hall on a Wednesday. https://t.co/Gh8JdphALj
— Jen Mac Ramos (@jenmacramos) January 30, 2017
.@aubrey_huff pic.twitter.com/OenadcewCH
— MLB Insider Dinger (@atf13atf) January 30, 2017
Other responses mostly centered around Huff, who proudly claimed that he no longer works, not being all that good at his old job.
Aubrey Huff was a career .147 hitter on Sundays so you’d think of all people he’d appreciate people not doing any work on Sundays. https://t.co/3FJjqEMzb9
— Dave Lozo (@davelozo) January 30, 2017
Aubrey, many protest in their free time, when they are not working; you might remember this as the 2011 MLB season https://t.co/9jbMw1yB6h
— RUTHLESSCRITIQUEHULK (@Hegelbon) January 30, 2017
everybody out protesting today had a higher WAR than you did in 2001, 2009, 2011, and 2012. https://t.co/ssy50R2TYJ https://t.co/t1pHOXeQl5
— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) January 30, 2017
Aubrey Huff, of the-disappointing-return-for-ben-zobrist and perpentually-dunked-on-by-twitter fame pic.twitter.com/3xQuo4QNxj
— ? (@VanHicklestein) January 30, 2017
Hi Aubrey Huff! I protest and I have a bunch of jobs! I’m a panelist on MLB Network and host on FS1, two places that didn’t hire you. https://t.co/4KkNJHtWPm
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) January 30, 2017
At least you don’t have to worry about this kind of stuff hurting your HOF chances. ? https://t.co/1QqzQsTSk2
— Barry M. Bloom (@Boomskie) January 30, 2017
Some pointed out the irony that Huff was able to financially benefit from the actions Curt Flood, a former player who fought and organized protests for free agency in the late 1960s.
everyone stop protesting and do your job. so anyways, i’m a millionaire because of curt flood https://t.co/J30dmL5T6k
— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) January 30, 2017
Curt Flood protested. MLB Players protested, on strike in 1972, 1981, 1985 and 1994- but you got the money from it https://t.co/WxogB2DkbO
— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) January 30, 2017
Hey, @aubrey_huff, I see $57.8m in career earnings. Did players protest for free agency or were you just special? pic.twitter.com/E2gFeCEE2v
— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) January 30, 2017
And finally, there was this.
Presented without comment. pic.twitter.com/R1KdqRsyVJ
— LOLKNBR ? (@LOLKNBR) January 30, 2017
Huff’s book, “Baseball Junkie: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of a World Series Champion,” is set to be released Wednesday.
