MLB players call on Puerto Rico governor to resign over leaked text messages

Several Major League Baseball players on Wednesday called for the governor of Puerto Rico to resign after hundreds of leaked documents between the governor and other officials featured homophobic and sexist language.
Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism published nearly 900 pages of private messages between Gov. Ricardo Rossello and several other government officials. In one message Rossello calls one New York female politician of Puerto Rican descent a “w--e” and described another as a “daughter of a b---h.” One chat also makes vulgar references to Latin pop star Ricky Martin’s homosexuality.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans on Wednesday marched in San Juan demanding that Rossello resign.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez, St. Louis Cardinals’ Yadier Molina, Houston Astros’ Carlos Correa and Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora were among those also calling on Rossello to resign.
“This post is for my people! This is to say that politics and sports should never be in the same conversation, but today is a day in which it is necessary,” Hernandez wrote on Instagram.