Main League Baseball crew the New York Yankees introduced Thursday that its Twitter feed would publish tweets specializing in gun violence following the mass capturing at an elementary college in Uvalde, Texas—a lot to the frustration of some followers.

Forward of its sport on Thursday with the Tampa Bay Rays, the baseball crew introduced it might not be giving play-by-play updates on social media because it often does.

"In lieu of sport protection and in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Rays, we can be utilizing our channels to supply details in regards to the impacts of gun violence," the Yankees mentioned in an announcement. "The devastating occasions which have taken place in Uvalde, Buffalo and numerous different communities throughout our nation are tragedies which can be insupportable."

The Tampa Bay Rays additionally introduced that they'd be doing the identical and issued an announcement condemning the assault on the Robb Elementary college that resulted in 21 deaths—19 kids and two lecturers.

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Some sports activities followers have been outraged by the New York Yankees discussing gun violence on their Twitter web page. Above, Marwin Gonzalez #14 and Aaron Choose #99 of the Yankees react after scoring within the sixth inning in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Area on Might 26, 2022, in St Petersburg, Florida. Julio Aguilar/Getty Photos

Whereas the vast majority of tweets to the Yankees gave the impression to be constructive, some sports activities followers took problem with the baseball crew talking a few matter that's thought of extensively political.

The Insurgents podcast host and activist Jordan Uhl shared a few of the reactions from followers, saying there have been "absolute meltdowns taking place within the Yankees replies."

Some followers demanded that the Yankees' Twitter web page solely tweet in regards to the baseball sport and defended the usage of weapons, claiming they'd be unfollowing the web page.

Former New York Mets participant Leonard Kyle Dykstra replied to one of many tweets from the Yankees and dubbed the "woketard" sheep.

"F*** these woketard sheep staff who by no means performed the sport who're joyously accepting orders from the evil, corrupt ones to leverage the game for 'the agenda' and who're ruining an amazing legacy for the followers these of us who truly performed the sport on the highest degree," Dykstra tweeted in all caps.

Non-profit conservative information media watchdog Accuracy in Media additionally responded to Yankees choice to tweet about gun violence, tweeting: "Oh the irony. New York is lecturing us about gun violence."

Los Angeles Felony Protection Lawyer David Wohl additionally requested that the sports activities crew keep on with baseball moderately than conversations about weapons.

"Semiautomatic sporting rifles, which you falsely label 'assault weapons' are additionally much more helpful in self-defense when on is attacked by a psychopath with a lethal weapon. Stick with baseball you hacks," he tweeted.

Following the capturing, the controversy over gun management in america has been reignited. President Joe Biden addressed the difficulty in a speech on Tuesday following the college capturing in Uvalde and mentioned it was time America stood as much as the gun manufacturing business. Biden additionally mirrored on the frequency of mass shootings in America in his speech.

"It has been 3,448 days—10 years since I stood up at a highschool in Connecticut—a grade college in Connecticut, the place one other gunman massacred 26 individuals, together with 20 first-graders, at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty," he mentioned. "I'm sick and uninterested in it. We've got to behave. And do not inform me we will not have an effect on this carnage."

Newsweek reached out to the New York Yankees for remark.