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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore Orioles' COO: No 1st pitch for Trump.
John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos and the Orioles' executive vice president and chief operating officer, said on a Baltimore-based podcast that divisive rhetoric and actions during Trump's campaign and since his swearing-in require that the president re-double efforts to embrace all members of the community.
Ultimately that decision is with the ownership group as to what major politicians and political figures and societal figures they want to invite, Angelos said, per the Washington Post. "I know that the administration has taken a lot of criticism for its controversial positions; I think more so perhaps for statements made both during the campaign and since the administration came in concerning things that are considered to be problematic from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability. People in those communities have been spoken about very negatively by a candidate and now president.
Youre asking my personal opinion; I think its really incumbent upon any individual who leads the country to step away from those types of statements, to apologize for those statements and retract them. And then to turn the page, and then to move forward in embracing their community, all parts of that community. Until that happens, it wouldnt be my preference to have the president come throw a pitch. But thats up to the ownership as to what they would like to do there.
Link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/orioles-exec-trump-apology-before-first-pitch/ar-AAnjXNm?li=AA54yf
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Light the first cross?
strongermessage
(283 posts)underpants
(182,271 posts)Angelos is okay with me.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)That these words should be directed at the leader
of our country indicates how low we have fallen.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)as a measure of revenge............
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)on somebody throwing the first pitch who used to be "the best baseball player in New York"!
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)I doubt Trump could throw even a 30 foot pitch and He wouldn't suffer the indignity to having the distance cut down. Now Pres William Howard Taft threw a short little toss from the stands to a player, but he weighed 325...so there is that.
I'll wager a bet that the obese orange turd weighs that much too!
Re: the article - the owners will have to deal with nobody in the seats if they decide to let him throw out the first pitch.
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)majority team owner Peter Angelos is a life long Democrat with a background as a workplace and liability rights lawyer. Maybe the Nationals didn't want Trumpkin either.