John Gibbons caught the ire of social media following his postgame comments Tuesday when he said, “I guess we’ll come out wearing dresses tomorrow," referring to a new rule that he feels made baseball softer.
People called the comment misogynistic, saying he was degrading women, but Gibbons feels people took his comment too serious. When he was asked about it Wednesday, Gibbons didn't apologize.
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"It was meant as a little humor," he said, via the Toronto Star. “My mom, my wife and my daughter found it kind of funny and they know me.
"I do think the world needs to lighten up a little bit."
He continued.
"I know who I am and I know where my heart is," he said. "What I do is I show up every day and do the best job I can and try to treat people the way I want to be treated and for the most part I think I do that. But it amazes me in the world nowadays, simple things you try to calm a situation, add a little humor to something and it gets thrown out of whack. You live with it."
