SF Giants commentator compares gays to black people as ‘oppressed’ minority following Christian protest

San Francisco Giants sportscaster Mike Krukow vehemently defended the team’s Pride Night celebration in lengthy remarks after three pitchers wrote Bible verses on their hats.

Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote differing forms of “Genesis 9:12-16” on their Giants rainbow-themed hats last week, and veteran commentator Krukow says it was a big mistake.

‘The strength of this city is its ethnicity, its culture.’

Krukow’s diatribe came after hosts on radio station KNBR asked him on Tuesday if he had any thoughts on the protest. Krukow did not hold back, directly comparing the “gay community” to black Americans by referring to homosexuals as an oppressed “minority.”

“It’s hard to put it into perspective when you have so much emotion and so much of love for people who