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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 04:06 PM Feb 2017

Baltimore Orioles' COO: No 1st pitch for Trump.

A Baltimore Orioles executive says he'd prefer President Trump not throw out a first pitch at Camden Yards without first apologizing for statements that could be viewed as problematic "from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability" standpoint.

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.

“You’re asking my personal opinion; I think it’s 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 wouldn’t be my preference to have the president come throw a pitch. But that’s 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
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Baltimore Orioles' COO: No 1st pitch for Trump. (Original Post) kstewart33 Feb 2017 OP
When the Klan has a league of their own Drumpf should throw out the first ball. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 #1
"When the Klan has a league of their own Drumpf should ..." left-of-center2012 Feb 2017 #4
Probably good for Drumpf. The baseball would look like a basketball in his tiny hand. strongermessage Feb 2017 #2
The O's played "This Land is Our Land" during 7th inning stretches last year underpants Feb 2017 #3
The US is at an all time low. lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #5
That means he will do it MFM008 Feb 2017 #6
I don't know...they're missing out Jamaal510 Feb 2017 #7
With that body, Mendocino Feb 2017 #8
Hmm.. llmart Feb 2017 #9
Funny that the Orioles are in this, Mendocino Feb 2017 #10

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
5. The US is at an all time low.
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 04:17 PM
Feb 2017



That these words should be directed at the leader
of our country indicates how low we have fallen.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
7. I don't know...they're missing out
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 05:33 PM
Feb 2017

on somebody throwing the first pitch who used to be "the best baseball player in New York"!

Mendocino

(7,430 posts)
8. With that body,
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 05:40 PM
Feb 2017

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.

llmart

(15,499 posts)
9. Hmm..
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 05:48 PM
Feb 2017

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)
10. Funny that the Orioles are in this,
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 06:01 PM
Feb 2017

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.

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