Billy Bean, MLB Ambassador for Inclusion, and other Major League Baseball officials will meet with Josh Hader over the tweets which surfaced Tuesday night.
Now, a lot of the talking indicates they may well state he could be an ambassador for the league for social media responsibility.
But it is clear, especially if you read the MSN/USA Today article on the subject, that there are strong words being bandied about here.
Milwaukee is a very racially-charged city, and it is not clear at all as to whether he would be able to pitch there after some of those Tweets or whether protests or worse would follow. It is almost-certain that the series with the Dodgers will be the first look to see whether this is possible.
It is not implausible, even still, that he may be forced to go elsewhere before the deadline. That may involve his teammates (to whom he is also required to meet on Friday), or the city of Milwaukee itself -- which has many African-Americans who will attack the first "White Boy" they see if so inflamed. (I know from my experience in the city itself for four years, in which I was attacked as such at least twice!) Stay tuned.
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