Mulder is among the few sportsmen who have chastised San Francisco in the past 12 months.
Following the shooting injury of 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall during an attempted robbery, former Major League Baseball player Mark Mulder took aim at the city of San Francisco on Saturday.
The city’s Union Square neighborhood was the scene of the incident. A 17-year-old who attempted to take Pearsall’s Rolex is said to have shot him. Erin, Pearsall’s mother, said that while Pearsall was wounded in the chest, the bullet left his body without striking any important organs.
He posted on X, “What an absolute hell hole of a city!” “The mentally ill Libs will still tell you how beautiful it is all while they get mugged and step in s—.”
Mulder spent nine seasons in the major leagues, split between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Oakland Athletics. In addition to becoming an All-Star in 2003 and 2004, he was the 2001 American League Cy Young Award runner-up.
He is not in the same vicinity as the athletes who have been critical of the city in the past year.
During the NBA All-Star Game, Charles Barkley took aim at the city.
Buster Posey, a former player for the San Francisco Giants, said that drugs and violence deterred prospective free agents.
On Sunday, Pearsall was discharged from the hospital. According to authorities, the 23-year-old was alone when he was approached by a suspect brandishing a pistol in the Union Square neighborhood just after 3:30 p.m. local time. Bill Scott, the chief of police in San Francisco, said that many shots were fired.
“A struggle between Mr. Pearsall and the suspect ensued, and gunfire from the suspect’s gun struck both Mr. Pearsall and the subject.”
The seized gun supposedly belonged to the suspect. According to Scott, the adolescent took the action on his own, and there was no sign that Pearsall, a football star, was the target of any kind.
In San Francisco, we hold people accountable in this way. At a press conference later on Saturday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared that robberies and other acts of violence of this nature would not be accepted in our community.
“Ricky Pearsall and his family are in our thoughts and prayers following this awful and infrequent tragedy at Union Square. He has a promising future, and I’m excited to watch him get better and return to the field.”
