Last summer, during a press conference about pitcher Danny Duffy’s DUI arrest, Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore went off on a surprising tangent about the danger of pornography. That lecture caught the attention of an anti-pornography organization called Fight the New Drug, and six months or so later, the team and the advocacy group have partnered on what the latter calls a “fight for love” but what someone else might call a crusade against porn.
Last weekend, Fight the New Drug showed up to Royals Spring Training to offer a presentation to 200 players, coaches, trainers, and staff members. Moore spoke, as did relief pitcher Blaine Boyer.
The presentation seems to have resonated with at least one member of the Royals organization. Fight the New Drug posted to Instagram a message from minor-league strength and conditioning coach Austin Womack, in which Womack described being addicted to porn in high school and college and said it was “an honor” to listen to Fight the New Drug founder Clay Olsen.
If you are wondering what any of this has to do with baseball or why an organization should care what its employees do (legally) on their own time in their own bedrooms, you’re not alone. Via the New York Post, here’s how Moore described it back in August, after Duffy’s DUI.
“We’ve done a lot of leadership stuff with our players,” said Moore, a devout Christian. “Very transparent about things that happen in our game. Not only with drugs and alcohol — we talk about pornography and the effects, what that does to the minds of players and the distractions, and how that leads to abuse of — domestic abuse, abuse of women. How it impacts relationships. We talk about a lot of things, and I don’t mind sharing them with you.”
Well, there you have it. The Royals are not big fans of pornography.
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