Giants Pride Night and the conversations we’re not having

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The San Francisco Giants' Pride Night controversy and all the subsequent fallout can be blamed on many things (and, quite frankly, have been). But if there is one throughline from the seeds of discontent that sparked it to the interactions among media members attempting to make sense of it, it's that the entire episode can be traced back to a lack of direct communication.