Three Mets say they are ready to star
in an It Gets Better video if the baseball team decides to produce
one.
General manager Sandy Alderson,
outfielder Jason Bay and pitcher R.A. Dickey told
the New
York Daily News that they would welcome the opportunity to
star in such a video.
The
It Gets Better Project encourages gay teens to not cave in to
bullies, because life eventually gets better. The video campaign is
helmed by gay activist and Seattle alternative The Stranger
editor Dan Savage.
“Yeah, I would certainly do that,”
Bay told the paper. “I would be glad to.”
Three weeks ago, the
San Francisco Giants became the first MLB team to complete a video
for the campaign. Days later, the
Chicago Cubs announced they'll record their own video. Two more
MLB teams, the Boston
Red Sox and the Seattle
Mariners, followed suit.
“It is not my decision, but I
certainly would support it,” Alderson said. “It is a worthy
issue.”
A team official, however, nixed the
idea, saying the Mets wanted to address the issue in a more general
way.
“We had already been looking around
trying to find an organization to partner with on the bullying
issue,” the unnamed official said. “We are interested in
inclusiveness. If you target one specific subset, what about the
other groups that are bullied?”