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Chicago White Sox minor league pitcher Anderson Comas came out publicly as gay on Sunday. The 23-year-old, who started his career as an outfielder, spent last season as a pitcher with the ACL White Sox, the team’s rookie-level affiliate in Phoenix.
“This may be my most personal thing I ever share and it’s that I’m proudly and happily part of the LGTBQ+ community,” Comas wrote. “I’m also a human with a great soul. I’m respectful, I’m a lover, I love my family and friends and that’s what really matters.
“I enjoy my work a lot. Being a professional baseball player is the best thing that happened to me so I just wanna say something to those people that says that gay people can not be someone in this life. Well look at me, I’m gay and I’m a professional athlete so that didn’t stopped me to make my dreams come true. I’m doing this [because] I wanna be an inspiration for those like me out there [fighting] for their dreams. Please don’t listen to those stupid things that people say about us. Fight for your dreams, believe in yourself and go for it.”
White Sox assistant general manager Chris Getz praised Comas in a statement on Sunday afternoon, and said he first came out to the organization last year.
“I was very pleased that he was comfortable sharing with us in player development.” Getz said. “I also was happy at the reaction across the organization, which as you would expect was to support, help and congratulate a teammate. With his social media post today, we are all so proud of Anderson and that he is comfortable sharing such an important personal part of his life so openly.”
Comas has spent his entire six-year career in the minor leagues, and hasn’t played higher than the Single-A level. He spent time as an outfielder until last season. He has 81 RBI and seven home runs in 179 career games at the plate. Comas is the latest professional baseball player to come out as gay. Bryan Ruby did in 2021 while with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, which made him the first active professional baseball player to do so, and San Francisco Giants minor leaguer Solomon Bates followed him last year.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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