Baseball player apologises for racist and homophobic tweets

Major League Baseball player Sean Newcomb has apologised for a series of homophobic and racist tweets he wrote when he was a teenager, GayStar News reports.

The tweets, from 2011 and 2012, include: “This gay black kid won’t stop presenting about black hair… #iwanttoleave”

“Skinny n***a, big balls”

“I’m not lazy. #fag.”

The tweets resurfaced recently and were brought to his attention at a press conference following a winning game.

“I definitely regret it, for sure,” Newcomb said when asked about the tweets by reporters. “I just wanted to apologize for any insensitive material. It was a long time ago, six or seven years ago, saying some stupid stuff with friends.

“I know I’ve grown a lot since then. I didn’t mean anything by it. It was just something stupid I did a long time ago and I didn’t mean anything by it, for sure.”