I think Joe Lockhart absolutely nailed it--“He only enjoys events that are about him. He doesn’t enjoy or really recognize something that’s bigger than him.”
Trump is a coward who knows in his 'gut' that the boos would be so loud you could hear them on the moon.
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Since his inauguration, Trump has only addressed crowds that were restricted to his supporters. The man is afraid to stand up in front of the general public. He is a coward.
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Lucky for everyone in the world that we won't have to see his fake-ness.
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He has soiled so much that we cherish about our nation. Is it too much too ask that he leave the national pastime alone?
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I guess its hard to claim to pitch the fastest curve ball ever in front of 200,000 people when you car has to take you out to the mound, the secret service has to help you up the mound, you throw the ball and ,well, it just doesn't fly.
All live to the nation
Yeah, better not
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He would need a golf cart to get to the mound and would blame Obama when the ball didn’t reach the plate.
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Baseball is America’s past time, not Russia’s.
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I’m sure everyone is relieved.
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No one asked him to throw out the first pitch, once again he has inserted himself to shine his own spotlight. The Nationals confirmed that he was never asked and that they had already invited and confirmed Chef and World Central Kitchen founder, humanitarian, Jose Andres. Unlike the current WH occupant, Andres is beloved and respected in DC.
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He sounds like a vain woman. He will look fat. He is fat. He is worried the boat will dribble over the plate. But good news for Nats fans!
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He's afraid he'll be booed like his best bud Rudy was at a Yankee's game last year.
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Oh how I’d love to go and let the corrupt scoundrel know just how I feel.
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He’s busy that day watching “Celebrity Apprentice” reruns on state-owned Russian TV.
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bone spurs in his foot preclude him from throwing out the first pitch
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Yes, Mr. President you will look fat- even before they put on the Kevlar. Yes, you will be booed. And yes, it will be finally obvious that you can’t even throw a baseball. That’s three strikes. Wish it was that easy to get you out.
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I'm glad he isn't there. He's a terrible person, a corrupt and treasonous president and anyway, there's no way he could toss a pitch far enough. The sooner the national disgrace is gone, the better.
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"I'll look too heavy and I don't like that." Everything about that remark is self-mockery. The fact that he doesn't know he's not supposed to say that out loud to the press is why we must get his candy-jar sticky chubby little baby fingers off the red button.
He's the only person on earth who doesn't know the president of the United States will look like a clown if he says that. And, horrifyingly, he IS the president. Go figure.
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There is no way he could get the ball from the mound to home plate...that’s the reason he won’t throw a first pitch. He’s afraid of looking unmanly.
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This is the best news regarding Trump I have heard since 2016.
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It would be so hypocritical if he attended a game, and had to stand at the singng of the Star Spangles banner, the anthem that represents the country he is deliberately trying to destroy.
He should be booed for the entire game !
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Make him look fat? That ship has sailed. Slowly and listing to starboard, but definitely long gone.
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Trump is fat, knows he's fat but wants to appear thinner. Fat chance at that. He's not athletic unless you consider his bad golfing to be athletic. Throwing out a pitch might aggravate his bone spurs so he'll have to decline.
And he's right about the protection he'd have to wear; he'll look even fatter and makes a really good target.
He said he would go on Sunday if the best-of-seven contest reaches a fifth game but even then would not throw the first pitch because he would look fat in the Kevlar vest he would have to wear.
“I don’t know. They’re going to have to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I’ll look too heavy. I don’t like that.”
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I don't think the issue is that President Trump would look fat in a Kevlar vest but rather our military does not make them in that size.
If FOX is broadcasting this, the last thing Donald Trump wants his base to see is him getting booed right off of the mound. They still think he is everyone's sweetheart.
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Thankfully he isn't playing. He would argue every call, claim the game has been rigged and never read the signs sent in from the dugout.
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There may be no higher stakes in professional sports than a Game 7 of a World Series.
But I’m praying for a sweep.
If the Manchurian Cantaloupe had any sense, he would, too.
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...And there was much rejoicing!
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No surprise. He has no class.
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If he could stack the stands, he'd be there.
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Good. He should be shunned everywhere!
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Lots of good excuses, both for and against Trump. The real reason is that he's too physically weak and fat to get a pitch over the plate and doesn't want to be embarrassed. That's every narcissists' worst nightmare.
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Trump is also the first US President in over 100 years without a dog in the White House.
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@Chippinggreen
That's the first thing I've heard in his favor.
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He’s terrified to throw out the first pitch. Nothing else to it.
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I love the Nationals almost as much as I love America, but if the front office invites that malicious coward to throw out the first pitch, I'll turn on the team faster than Altuve turned on that high and inside Chapman fastball.
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Did someone replace his full length mirror with a funhouse-variety type so that he appears to be a normal size to himself ?
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“I don’t know. They’re going to have to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I’ll look too heavy. I don’t like that.”
Does he honestly believe that he doesn't look "too heavy" already? Delusional Donnie.
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Come on, give him a break already. Play nice with our commander in chief. Let him through a soft fuzzy round peach out there. Certainly he's boasted about clutching them in the past. This may just make him feel at home.
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@Arthur
For the life of me I don't understand the criteria for allowing or disallowing my posts. Okay, well, it's up there. In addition, yes "through" is supposed to be throw.
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He won't show. He's afraid of Americans. He doesn't have the nuggets to show up at an event where he didn't pay or hand pick the audience.
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Unfortunately, there could be riots if he showed up. He has created so much hatred it would be foolish for him to attend.
If he ever had the nerve to do it, however, there should be mandatory silence. Let him throw the ball and leave without a single sound.
That would speak for itself.
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He should go. He's so delusional he would probably think all those people are there and cheering for him!
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Although Trump "Claims" that he was the captain of his baseball team when he was in college, there is old video footage of him throwing out a first pitch at a game, years before he ran for president.
It was pathetic, one of the worst looking throws I have ever seen.
Not only did it look like someone who was NOT a captain of a baseball team, it looked like someone who had never even thrown a baseball in his life!
It does not surprise me, that he's refusing to throw out any first pitches
It would be instantly obvious to the world, that he was never the captain of any baseball team.
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I don't see why so many commenters think Trump would be afraid of being booed at the World Series. After all, for his after-game activity he has already written a nocturnal emission for his mini-tweeter saying that the boos were from all the illegal immigrants brought in and bought tickets by the Democrats.
As to his appearance with a Kevlar toupee -- oh, excuse me, I mean vest -- he would simply note that it was an umpire's chest protector given him because he knew better than anyone what was a ball or strike, and that when the on-field umps went to a replay, it was Trump who was being consulted.
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The president says he has no plans to throw out the first pitch. Good thing because he was not invited to do it.
The Nationals wisely chose Chef Jose Andres who has done great work feeding victims of natural disasters via his non-profit World Central Kitchen. Much to be admired.
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"Missing from Friday's World Series Lineup in Washington: The President"
Good.
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He’s profoundly stupid, but he has enough street smarts and animal cunning to NOT attend. Imagine the booing and catcalls, NOT like his Loyalty Rallies. As far as Him throwing a Pitch - absolutely hilarious. Those tiny little hands couldn’t even fit around a baseball. Get Real.
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Considering the president is Trump, it doesn't surprise me one iota that he will not be there for the 1st game. However, to be honest, I'm really happy he'll be away, why, because it is a honor to be the one throwing out the ball. In Trump case he doesn't deserve this honor, he is an embarrassment to our nation. Am so happy he will not be there.
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I don't see why so many commenters think Trump would be afraid of being booed at the World Series. After all, for his after-game activity he has already written the nocturnal emission from his mini-tweeter saying that the boos were from all the illegal immigrants brought in and bought tickets by the Democrats.
As to his appearance with a Kevlar toupee -- oh, excuse me, I mean vest -- he would simply note that it was an umpire's chest protector given him because he knew better than anyone what was a ball or strike, and that when the on-field umps went to a replay, it was Trump who was being consulted.
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If Trump did show up there would most like be a riot. Trump would order ICE to deport all the Latino Astros and Nationals who are not American citizens. The entire fall classic would be ruined. Add to that if the Nationals would allow Trump to throw out the first pitch, Trump's throw would come up short, then he would blame it on the catcher. Baseball fans would be disappointed just like Stormy Daniels was disappointed.
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Trump won't attend a World Series game as their is no money or personal gain in it for him....like holding the G-7 at his Doral Resort in Florida or hosting dignitaries who are staying at his Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. What do you expect from a real estate con man interested in only making a buck for himself?
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Gee, I wonder if the thought of his son, Barron ever crossed his mind. Maybe Barron would like to throw the ball? Nope, it's ALL about trump, all the time.
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Barron? He’s got some handicap. Unless it was the kids true hearts desire that’s a cruel idea.
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Aside from the fact that the bloated, miserable, old sycophant can't throw a baseball, no one wants the presence of an illegitimate President contradicting the American institution of baseball.
God Bless America.
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My Dad at 90 is surely one of the last who attended the third 1933 game. He was five, and living with his parents in the district. He has always said his father taken could have taken anyone on the planet with him but he took a little boy. Last night I read the Senators roster to him and he named the position of every player. He remembered FDR threw out the first pitch. As he has taken to saying, “it was a different world then.”
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Trump can’t appear in front of a crowd that isn’t hand picked, the reaction would be overwhelmingly negative toward him.
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One of the greatest days in the history of baseball!
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Trump is afraid to show up and try to throw a baseball because he knows he couldn't.
He'd humiliate himself (yet again!) with a 5 foot throw. And then he'd blame Obama for doctoring the ball as part of a deep state conspiracy to make him look bad.
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Trump doesn't want us to see that he throws like a weakling.
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You know, people watch sports to get a break from life's stresses. Trump is a significant stress point, and should be kept away from sporting events, especially our beloved national pastime. Treason is not in the recipe for apple pie slices of Americana.
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Does the man not have a mirror? He IS fat. We see his fatness every single day. My guess is he couldn’t lob a baseball 60 feet if his life depended on it.
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The list of President Trump’s personality disorders incudes egomania. Trump has such an acute case he could not bear the booing of thousands of baseball fans. Who knows what would happen if he did?
It’s ironic that a president who so frequently insults people, groups of people, ethnic groups, countries, etc. is so thin skinned.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he said he was going to pull us out of baseball.
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@JM
Some of the players are immigrants, so expect a wall.
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He doesn't do anything that doesn't promote him or his agenda to get re-elected. Except maybe if it has to do with money. That's the only other thing he does. His son once said that the only color Don cares about is green. His presidency has shown that to be true!
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FDR probably threw out a more vigorous first pitch than the president* is capable of tossing.
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No great loss. Bring back Simone Biles instead - she was dynamite!
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The President of the United States should serve as a role model for all citizens and present the best s/he can be. Trump not only does not care well for his own physical health, but encourages others to follow suit based on strange ideas about exercise. Health and health care are priorities for any reasonable country, so I hope that his antipathy to exercise does not influence anyone else. Trump would look heavy on the field because he is heavy. It's fine to be heavy -- many great athletes are -- but he says he doesn't like it. So then why doesn't he get off the sofa and move? Burpees, Trump. 20 burpees. Right now.
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Predictable responses - he doesn't go so he's too fragile. And if he went, he'd be making it all about himself.
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I hope he attends.
I'm looking forward to the boos, the fights and the riots.
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This piece directly answers 3 of the 5 questions from the "Presidents and Baseball" category on the June 24, 2005 episode of Jeopardy!, and it alludes to the other 2. It was déjà vu all over again because I was a contestant on that episode. http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=411
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The little man can’t stand to be in a place where the crowds don’t cheer for him. Or where he isn’t the center of attention.
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Oh, just look at that happy smile on FDR's face! Even in the depths of the worst Depression the country has ever known. It makes you feel a little better just to see it. Even W., as pictured in this story, doesn't look as hostile and grumpy as DT usually does. Let's face it, more often that not, DT's dissatisfied with something or other and complaining about it, making all the rest of us feel grumpy, too. Don't think he will be much missed at the World Series......he's really not much of a sportsman, is he?
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@Piri Halasz
the way he cheats?
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@Adam S Urban Warrior Well, yes, but I wasn't thinking of that so much as the fact that his favorite games are those at casinos, where the odds are always with the house and those few people who are smart enough to beat those odds are persona non grata. He has to have the odds with him and he's never satisfied when they're not, even when a playing field is level. He complains to the skies even when that playing field is level, as though he were already losing....which is sort of the classic profile of a sore loser...maybe he can't quite forget that he got nearly 3 million fewer votes than Clinton....
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Those alleged Bone Spurs that got him well outta ‘Nam must be acting up just a bit. Save the Secret Service and Nats fans the hassle. Thank you Not My President for staying far, far away.
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I think he's afraid to show us the ineffectiveness of his throw. He might look weak or, more likely, ridiculous. To a man like Trump, this cannot be tolerated. He is a person, so he says, with super strength. Since tv cameras don't lie, and sports fans are extra critical, best not to show, rather than show and decline the opening pitch, which would have the same effect of questioning his super strength. He's using his super wisdom again.
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Please do not let Trump near Nats Park during the Series. He will bring nothing but negative vibes and distraction to this historic moment. Let’s stay focused on what’s important here — a Nats victory.
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Let's be honest. If he was going we'd all be screaming that he has no place there, its disgraceful for him to be there etc...
Wasnt it michele obama who said, "when they go low, we go high"? And then members of our party felt it should be "when they go low, we go lower". Well, we certainly have gone lower and we wrap it in sanctimony. We wrap it in the call out that only we know "what is right". And we shout it from the top of our soap boxes. And we refuse to let others voice any opinion different from our own. We shout them down on college campuses and we force organizations to cancel speakers because we dont want to even hear them speaking their opinions.
Ok so I am an older moderate liberal. But where oh where is our party going? Without a doubt our most progressive members are anti-capitalism and anti-democratic. Our extreme factions (antifa) is without doubt fascist. They wear masks and inflict physical violence on innocent and even old people. Does this not reek of KKK? Of nazism?
We speak of being a woke society and that those who dont agree with everything we say are blinded by their own evil. Well, I have news for all of us. While there's plenty wrong with the GOP and staunch conservatives, and while trump is the least "presidential" president we've ever had, we really arent any better than they are. And until we come to that realization and act accordingly we are not woke. We are just the same as those to whom we show all our pent up hate.
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I’m sure Faux News will have something negative to say about this. Oh wait, that would only be if the President was a Democrat.
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He was asked to throw out the first lie.
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He’d look fat in the protective vest? He means “fatter.” And drat! Fox is televising the game so he can’t claim fake news.
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Any President that can't throw out a baseball, can't be bothered to, is NOT AN AMERICAN!!!
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I wonder if the true reason he didn't serve in Vietnam was because the vests would make him look fat!
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I'll bet he doesn't even know how to throw a ball and he doesn't want to be labeled a sissy by the millions who would see it on TV and retweeted for posterity. Especially by his macho MAGA base.
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He would have to bring in Bill Barr to prove that his throw in the dirt was actually a strike.
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Forget about looking fat in a Kevlar vest. He knows he has no arm and that he’s look ridiculous bouncing a throw to the plate. Probably twice. To a chorus of boos.
That would have nothing to do with a lame pitch.
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Typical. He is the first to spit in the face of honor and tradition in this country. It sickens me to see how he has such utter disregard for the values,morals and respect for what has made America beautiful. He stands for everything ugly and disgusting. He is what America does not represent.
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He'd rather be out on the south lawn, tossing a ball around with his youngest son, Barron, right?
Fer shure.
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He says he's concerned about how he would look in a kevlar vest; I would wager that he can't throw a ball.
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@Paulie52 In fairness to the guy, he apparently played first base for the team from the 'military academy' he attended for secondary school. I have no idea how he played and asking him about it is pointless since he'd certainly lie - but I think the record shows that he did play. Although let's note that at that level (or even sometimes in the majors - looking at you Steve Garvey) first base is oftentimes a place where you try to hide a guy who can't throw.
Anyway, we can all be glad that his pinched mug and bizarre coif won't mar the occasion.
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@Paulie52 - I would wager that they couldn't find a kevlar vest with that many Xs on the label. And if they could find one that big, I would also wager that he would not be able to carry the weight.
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Perhaps our less-than-fit President is afraid of looking weak when ne has to roll onto the field in a golf cart.
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"I'll look too heavy" ???
As opposed to his current appearance?
Apparently a mirror must also be "fake news" to Mr. Trump.
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“I’ll look too heavy. I don’t like that.” This is like someone asking, "Do these jeans make me look fat?" Answer, "No your fat makes you look fat."
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Better that than the emperor appear naked.
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First pitch, he’d argue with the call and say he got it over the plate. It’d be fun to see him kick dirt and get ejected.
Y’re outta here!
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Proves Trump is anything but a true American.
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I am sure that the crowd will be full of thoughts for trump.
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Unfortunately for Trump, Alabama doesn’t have a MLB team...
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none of his minions have told trump that he already looks fat.
grew an inch between physicals so he wouldn't be classified as obese.
could always try to lose the weight but that would require discipline and not being able to twitter every waking hour.
actually, his tweets are so full of errors that he might be doing some of them in his sleep.
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There are limits to Trump’s America first.
What’s the line?
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FOR and trump mentioned in the same article?
My how the USA has fallen.
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@Louis J , at least it wasn't in the same sentence!
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I wonder if he could get to the mound without a golf cart
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Imagine
trump rides a golf cart to the mound
His hair and extra long tie blowing in the wind
He takes the ball in his tiny hands
Pockets the ball (to sell as memorabilia later)
Gets back in the cart and rides off to the cheers of Faux Nuz, Lindsey Graham and Jim Jordan exclaiming it was the greatest pitch in the history of the World Series.
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We Nats fans are praying with all our might that the Nats sweep so he doesn't have the opportunity to do or say something embarrassing to spoil the Nats' season.
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@apparatchick And there will be yet another major sports team champion not invited to the White House!
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@apparatchick I’m not a national fan and I’m hoping they sweep so I don’t have to see him on tv any more than necessary
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Trump and a profitable baseball team doesn’t match up. Better he show up at a failing franchise.
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Unlike the people at his rallies, a World Series crowd will not be handpicked to guarantee nothing but Trump toadies. And he's not secure enough to risk appearing where the audience gives him what he deserves, a Bronx cheer.
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If tRump insists on degrading the World Series with his presence, the crowd should show him the moon when he enters the stadium.
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The minute he touched the ball, it would go flat. And it doesn't even have air in it.
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I suspect he will not show up because he is certain the crowd will boo him worse than the Yankee fans who booed Giuliani on his birthday. No amount of body armor can protect Mr. Trump from that psychic damage.
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@Ben - Or the time Mike Pence went to see Hamilton. Ouch!
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Wait a minute ---- didn't Trump once say that, when he was young that he was so good at baseball that he could have gone "professional"?
Was that Lie #12,432?
And, did anyone think to ask him what position?
"Third"? Where he was born and thinks he hit a triple?
And what team?
"The Moscow Muskrats"?
Yeah, he's "professional" quality, alright!
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I’m Certainly not a Trumper. Nor was I a Bush supporter. But for New Yorkers, I’d say Pres. Bush throwing out that first pitch in the 2001 WS (right after 9/11) was a huge moment.
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This line -- "Even without the president ... Friday night’s game stands as a landmark moment for a city cursed by the baseball gods for generations" -- suggests Baker doesn't know D.C. fans or his audience. If so, he'd never have inserted the phrase "even without the president" -- as if Trump appearing at the ballpark would somehow elevate the importance of the game. Trump showing up will diminish the joy of it, so if he shows at all, I hope it's for game 5 (if there is a game 5), when Jose Andres will throw out the first pitch (and throw a bunch of shade, too).
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He does play golf. It's claimed, however, that he cheats wildly. In a ballgame, the TV cameras couldn't be focused on him enough to make it worth his while. If he goes to the Sunday game, the network will fall over itself to provide split image pictures, I'm sure.
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Aw now, maybe his bone spurs are playing up...
Actually, instead of booing it would be better if he were greeted by dead silence, not a squeak, not a murmur until he left the stadium.
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@D. Knight
The tremendous cacophony of boos would be more awe inspiring than dead silence.
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@D. Knight
I think hissing would be the most appropriate means of greeting him.
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@D. Knight - They could throw potatoes at him.
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I can’t imagine Trump sitting still without access to Fox News for the 3 hours that the game would likely last. Nor do I believe that he has a clue about the nuances of the game. And all those foreign born players?
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Does he ever do anything where he's not the center of attention?
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No surprise that Trump doesn't plan to attend the World Series in DC, nor throw the ceremonial first pitch. It's not only his self-consciousness about wearing a Kevlar vest, nor his narcissistic desire to be the center of attention (and adulation) at work here.
Can any of us name an occasion when Trump hosted a concert or recital at the White House? Or attended the theater or a musical production? (Recall that it was Pence who endured opprobrium at a performance of _Hamilton._) Or hosted a major literary figure at a White House dinner? Or held a White House reception for any of the nineteen US scholars who have won the Nobel Prize during his presidency?
Trump has NO INTEREST in anything that even vaguely smacks of culture, whether "popular" or "high."
There is a word in Ukrainian for such a person that seems particularly apropos: _nekulturnyy_.
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How can we possibly be surprised? Such disappointing conduct for a President of the US in so many areas. Shameful.
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Good thing the Nationals were smart enough to not invite him. The man would have been drowned by boos. The biggest boos ever. The most boos. All the beautiful boos. Sad!
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@Jeremy Amen bro!!!
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I had the good fortune to meet George H. W. Bush at the 1992 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Diego. I was a Baseball official at the time and was part of a group escorting the President and his good friend, Hall of Famer and San Diego native Ted Williams during they're visit. Mr. Williams was throwing out the first pitch during the pre-game ceremonies and Mr. Bush was going to join his friend on the walk out to the mound. At the time, Mr. Bush was in the midst of a heated Presidential campaign. As he escorted Ted Williams to the pitcher's mound for the first pitch, boos rained down from the crowd and I remember thinking at the time, "It's a baseball game. Is it really necessary to boo the President?" After coming off the field and while waiting for the National Anthem to be played, he deadpanned to an aide, "Gee, I wonder why they booed Ted so much." Everyone doubled over with laughter and he offered just a wry smile.
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My father remembered that when Hamilton Fish, an isolationist congressman, was introduced before a Redskins game in 1941, he received the loudest booing my father said he ever heard.
Too bad Trump can't go for the record.
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The Nats will not miss the bad luck Trump would bring to the party. He is brave to go to the game. He will be booed. Count on it.
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The optics of having sixty thousand people screaming epithets at the President would be something that even his alternative reality re election team would have trouble handling as scenes on You Tube go viral in minutes with millions of views. And all to be endlessly played into 2020. So, no - Trump won't be going.
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Come on Bernie, Joe and Elizabeth! DC is your adopted town. Go out and press the flesh which is what one-way Don won’t do unless he stacked the audience with friendlies.
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“He only enjoys events that are about him. He doesn’t enjoy or really recognize something that’s bigger than him.”
That sums it up.
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He has truly set a new tone for what being president means for the people as a whole. I didn’t support Bush but felt good about the president being another fan for one game. Same with Obama. It used to not matter, it was the president. Donald got his wish. We can no longer say “the president will attend”, it’s become “Trump will attend” or thankfully not attend. He does not appreciate the symbolism of being president of a Union.
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Participating in this tradition requires the ability to laugh at oneself and to take a little harmless bruising from the public. Trump, in his endless, adolescent need to fit the image of a hypermasculine stock character, constantly reveals his deep-seated insecurities. If he weren’t so destructive and dangerous to the nation, I’d feel sorry for him.
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@Andrew M.
Hyper masculine indeed. I'll bet he's never been in a fight in his life. He's the kind of guy who'll cry if confronted.
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He won't show up because it's not about him. This is also the first White House in more than three generations that hasn't staged performances or talks from nationally recognized artists, poets or writers.
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Steve
Thanks for this comment.
Kudos to the Bushes, Clinton,
and Obama for engaging with
Artists and Performers in the
White House.
With the gang of culturally bankrupt grifters occupying the
WH we now know
what the world would look like culturally if the Germans had won WW2.
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I am grateful that the president has no interest in the World Series, or any public event in which he does not try to become the center of attention.
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I was at game 3 of the series in Yankees stadium in 2001 when George W Bush threw a strike from the mound. Grown men had tears rolling down their faces given what we had been through in the weeks before.
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@Mkm ironically if trump was to be at tonight’s game I would have tears in my eyes but for an entirely different reason:(
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@Mkm Yeah, we were all New Yorkers then.
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Wild pitches, strikeouts, stolen bases, signal stealing, force plays, and errors. Trump should feel right at home at a baseball game.
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@Hobbs - my favorite comment! Priceless.
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@Hobbs Not sure what position someone of Trump's "stature" he should field--I know there is a short stop, but is there a fat stop position too? If so, insert fatso--ipso facto.
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He'll end up saying that the Secret Service wouldn't let him go.
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He can't release the first pitch. His own person's under audit.
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@Chris
could be true but the reality is they'd probably like to encourage him to show up.
gotta give it trump.
it's one of the few times he's shown self awareness
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Of course not. He can't behave for that long, and it isn't all about him anyway.
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He knows that will be a hostile crowd. Just like the White House correspondents dinner. Trump simply can't handle rejection.
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There are almost all one-liner comments here. Usually, VP Mike Pence or some other underling goes where the President is not wanted. However, he (the whitest of white) will noit be there either. Who cares? I'm a Yankee fan, anyway. I have watched a total of 0 seconds of the World Series. The Astros are getting hammered and the rightly. Not sour grapes, simply "water will always seek it's own level", as my brother used to say. The Yankees/Astros series could have gone either way with a single called strike or called ball, or a single hit; all any one of which going either way. IMy point being the ALCS was way too close. Look at the Astros in a few years, they will be "too long in the tooth"., whereas the Yankees are filled with young pitchers and sluggers, playing great all aroiund. They have much to look forward to. For the Astros, it may be a very long time before they get back to the World Series, as both teams (in the WS) are way too old. Not much to look forward to, but hey; I already wrote this!
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@Easy Goer Sorry about the Yankees; that was a tough way to lose. And I'm a Phillies fan; I'm still bitter about losing the World Series in 1993 from the homerun of Joe Carter
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@Valerie
LOL
Hey, I'm a Dodgers fan.
We got robbed!
But Trump is a loser. Hey, what can I say?
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Losing 4 games to 2 isn’t all that close.
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They'd have to build some see through cage around him because someone would throw a beer at him. I'd be surprised if Trump even knows how to play baseball.
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@markd
you seem to be unaware that he's said he was the best baseball player in new york.....don't know if he meant nyc or the state.
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Don't think anyone has asked him to throw out first pitch. Doubt he will be asked.
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@antimarket He might get there on three or four bounces, the fat bag of doughnuts.
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@antimarket
His pitch is usually for something like cheap steaks, and those pitches should be thrown out.
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What would you expect from a person who does not experience any joy, or maybe even any happiness at all? MLB is better off, he'll find a way to drag baseball down as he does with everything else.
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10,000 recommends.
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Biden needs to be there Game 3 or 4 (hopefully there is no game 5).
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Have not read one complimentary comment here.
I agree ---- with all of them.
Period.
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I can't think of anything more American than baseball, and anything less American than Trump.
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game 5, huh? Obviously the President is praying there is no game 5.
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@Jack
Praying?
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@Jack Nats fans are too.
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It's a good call, unless he wants to hear boos, whistles and Bronx cheers when the camera shows his face. When was the last time he was actually in public?
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@Portola
doug ford, the premier of ontario, was heavily booed at the toronto reception downtown after the raptors won the nba title.
he still hasn't recovered from it.
happened at several public events.
he's a little choosier now.
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Presidents should work, not waste time and money on security at things like this. We have enough debt!
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Yes, he should work. Perhaps you could tell him that.
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@David
Since when has this president ever worked? He doesn't read briefings and his schedule is littered with "executive time."
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@David yeah and Republicans created most of it.
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It's not the uniform that will make him look heavy. Has he looked in a mirror lately? He is NOT the picture of health or fitness. Again, he exhibits no sense of reality, as is illustrated in everything he says and does. He is the epitome of everything a human being should NOT be.
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Stephanie: When I read that line about the Kevlar vest making Trump “look heavy”, I had to laugh. He’s not heavy, he’s FAT, and no amount of overcoats or corsets are going to disguise that fact. What can he expect - his diet is full of mainly processed fast food, full of unhealthy fats and carbs. Plus those “extra” scoops of ice cream - yes Donnie, all this plus no exercise except running your big mouth constantly will pile the pounds on.
That old Carly Simon song “You’re So Vain” certainly is appropriate in this situation because, indeed, it’s all about HIM. He’s just a vain old fat man who doesn’t believe what his mirror is showing him. I almost feel bad for Melania ...
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"He said he would go on Sunday if the best-of-seven contest reaches a fifth game but even then would not throw the first pitch because he would look fat in the Kevlar vest he would have to wear."
Oh brother, give me a break already.
"He would look fat in the Kevlar vest"?
Let's keep things real here. He probably has never thrown a baseball in his entire life and doesn't want to look foolish or embarrassed. THAT I could stand behind for a justification. But "looking fat"?
The arrogance never lightens up.
How incredibly rude of the president to not even attend a World Series game, especially one in which is being played by the Washington Nationals.
Do we have proof of his American citizenship?
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@Marge Keller I don't want trump to come to the Nats Ballpark. Sure, there will be supporters among attendees but there also will be fans like me to BOOOOO him. Given his penchant for divisiveness, let's not stain this awesome World Series with his presence.
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@Nell
I concur.
I LOVE baseball.
It's about as American as anything I know.
Why make this incredible series about HIM?
The World Series is about the Nats and the Astros and their amazing fans!
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@Marge Keller You bet! Let's Go Nats!!!
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On the day that heads of state compete to give the most glowing praise for the great Elijah Cummings, Trump runs from a baseball game.
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He looks in. Gets the signal. Nods. Goes into windup. Kicks. and releases pitch.
Curiously, the ball disappears between mound and home plate. Everyone watching is befuddled. There's nothing there. Nothing.
He walks back to the dugout. He tells no one in particular it was the best pitch ever thrown out at the beginning of a ballgame.
He disappears into the tunnel. After he's gone everyone wonders what it was that happened while he was on the field.
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@Ama Nesciri I think you won the internet.
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@Ama Nesciri in a shocking announcement the best first pitched ball at a World Series game goes on sale Saturday morning
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Trump’s appearance at any game of the Series just doesn’t feel right. Here we have two excellent teams competing under rules they honor; and all around, perhaps ignoring underlying business elements that may compromise sport, it’s clean. Why have that spoiled? Trump cannot undo what he’s done as president, so harmful to our being one people ... even considering the good fun and gentle banter that go with favoring different teams that provide good American spirit.
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He has been “missing from the Presidential Office “ since the day he was elected. Why would Friday be any different? Besides, his very negative karma will cause a loss on Sunday. That’s my prediction anyway.
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@Cliff R He'd end up in Colorado...because he has a wall there.
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I personally dislike 45 very much, but I think we would all get quite a laugh out of watching him throw a baseball.
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Thanks. I laughed out loud.
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He should go out and throw the pitch. Coming from someone who can't stand the guy, Trump had a genuine chance to be a transformational president being an outsider elected to the office, but by eschewing any small effort to appeal to the whole country instead of his base, he's landed himself where he is. Isolated and reviled. Traditions are a strength, not a weakness.
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He doesn't want to attend because he knows, deep down, that he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
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Seriously, who really cares? The man taints everything he touches, and can never subordinate himself to anything for which he is not the center of attention. Sweep or not, here's hoping he stays at home.
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Wow. I was looking for a Nats sweep, but now I’m hoping for five. I’d love to hear the fans’ vernal appraisal of this soon-to-be ex-president. A DC chorus of the Bronx cheer. What a mope.
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Of course he won't be there, he'd be booed incessantly and there's no Sean Spicer to claim he was wildly cheered...
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That’s right Jeff. He’s afraid of being booed.
Booed at the World Series for America’s pastime. And on prime time national TV.
Coward.
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He's hoping for a four game sweep, so he won't get booed until the fans go hoarse.
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@X
We’re all hoping for a four game sweep. NO ONE wants to look at it.
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His absence during the traditional “first pitch” speaks volumes about the current occupant of the White House. He thinks he’ll look fat and get booed. I would understand his feelings if he was an eleven-year-old, but is his ego so fragile that he can’t deal with people who don’t like him?
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@Commentary
Yes, his ego is that fragile. He probably would look fat, but that's because he IS fat. In the picture of George W. Bush from 2001, he doesn't look fat; either because it really isn't necessary to wear a Kevlar vest and he's not wearing one, or because it doesn't add all that much bulk.
I think Trump is also afraid he would embarrass himself throwing out a pitch. And he probably would, because he's too lazy and unmotivated to practice at it.
And yeah, he wouldn't be able to deal with the booing he's pretty certain to receive. I mean, look at the reception Bryce Harper got when he played there with the Phillies. Tough crowd!!
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@Commentary "Is his ego so fragile that he can’t deal with people who don’t like him?"
I mean...yeah.
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@Commentary
yes indeedy!
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There can't be any place in the US where Trump is less beloved by ordinary residents than Washington, DC, where taxation without representation is still the way things are.
Enjoy the game, everyone.
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@Howard I'd say San Francisco gives DC a run for their money.
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This is why I'm hoping for a sweep, even if it means that Jose Andres won't get to throw out the first ball for Game 5. It would be worth it to shut Trump out of the picture entirely. And make my DC relatives very, very happy.
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This sounds like a good reason for the Nats to finish the series sweep.
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trump SHOULD stay away- this is America's game and is (for the time being) everything trump is not.
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If he shows up, everyone who disapproves of him should turn their back on him, very publicly. He'd get that.
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That's O.K. We don't need Trump ruining baseball, too. He's done enough damage everywhere else.
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I, for one, am extremely grateful that the stadium tonight will be a trump-free zone.
Go, Nats!
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Believe it or not - the World Series, or anything else, will survive quite well without the presence of Donald Trump.
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@MIMA
There is literally nothing, that is not improved by his absence.
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