The Boston Red Sox may have had their supposed spring training cancelled due to the lockout, but a minor league affiliate of their made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Brett Netzer, a minor leaguer for the team, was released after an absurd series of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic tweets.

Brett Netzer's Twitter meltdown began with a sudden admission of him being racist. Here's what the Red Sox minor leaguer had to say to a Twitter user calling him racist.

“I am a racist. I do sometimes make assumptions based on a person’s race/ethnicity/culture. Glad that is out of the way.”

https://twitter.com/BrettNetzer/status/1497646611014590464

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What followed was a barrage of tweets that completely destroyed any hope of the Netzer getting a job… anywhere. He disparaged Red Sox personnel chief Chaim Bloom, claiming he was a “bad actor” that “sold his soul to the sodom and race groups”.

Netzer would then ask for the Red Sox to release him, a request that was immediately granted. However, the attacks didn't stop there, as the ex-minor leaguer would go on to launch homophobic, racist, and anti-Christian tweets after news of his release were leaked. Initially, people speculated he might have been hacked, but Netzer himself would disprove those claims.

The Red Sox organization isn't going to miss Netzer at all. He was a career minor-league player who never broke about the Double-A leagues. Whether this was his idea of getting fired by going scorched earth against everyone or just his true thoughts, the organization was right in quickly cutting ties with this PR nightmare.