Red Sox Player Loses Mind In Racist Twitter Rant, Gets Released

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It was hard to find an image of Brett Netzer. Netzer, you see, is a minor league baseball player for the Boston Red Sox. Well, at least he was.

Netzer was released by the Red Sox on Sunday after a series of racist, distasteful tweets, one of which included a very matter of fact admission: “i am a racist.”

Being that he was a career .263 hitter… and a player who never sniffed the majors … it should come as no surprise that Netzer whiffed in a big way on this one.

Yeah… probably not going to survive that one, bro.

The 25-year-old started his odd rant Friday when he attacked Boston executive Chaim Bloom, questioning his Judaism and calling him, amongst other things, a fraud.

What followed were derogatory tweets that covered all bases: the LGBTQ community, African Americans, Jews, and others.

Seemingly begging for his release, Netzer tweeted: “i am a racist. i do sometimes make assumptions based on a persons race/ethnicity/culture. glad that is out of the way.”

https://twitter.com/BrettNetzer/status/1497646611014590464

After noticing his tweets and confirming his account had not been hacked, the Red Sox quickly sent the third-round pick of 2017 packing.

Chad Jennings of The Athletic tweeted the news that Netzer had been released “after a series of racist, homophonic, anti-Semitic posts on Twitter.”

Rather than slow him down, the newfound joblessness prompted Netzer to continue his reckless run through social media.

https://twitter.com/BrettNetzer/status/1497654154789072896

“I’ll go along with racist and homophobic, but anti-semitic? thats too far. bloom is a hypocrite and an embarrassment to any torah-following jew,” tweeted Netzer.

Bro… this is a bad look.

You are going to have to come with something stronger than your account getting hacked to get away from this one.

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