“I can’t even say it with a straight face but the more I think about it, I should just let the kids play,” Bumgarner said. “But I just … I can’t. … They want to let everybody be themselves, then let me be myself. That’s me.”

As a Doyers fan who thinks Bumgarner is a talented but ridiculously thin-skinned jerk, I actually agree with his take: "Let me be myself."