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jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:27 PM Oct 2018

The Red Sox should visit the WH for the traditional celebration

Normally I think sports teams who win championships should not be forced into the traditional meet-and-greet with Donald of Orange. But in this case, the Sox should make an exception. The whole team needs to visit the Oval Office for the traditional photo opportunity, bring him a Sox jersey with the number 45 on it and his name on the back, and serve a traditional New England luncheon of baked scrod and white clam chowder.

This has nothing to do with respect for the sacred traditions of our national pastime and everything to do with the fact Trump despises the Red Sox, who issued his Yankees a 15-run shellacking in Game 3 of the ALDS.

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The Red Sox should visit the WH for the traditional celebration (Original Post) jmowreader Oct 2018 OP
I don't think they should go. 45 would just use it as a photo op. AJT Oct 2018 #1
Ugh, what a horrible thought. Croney Oct 2018 #2
Kind of doubt that an invite will be forthcoming, anyway. MANative Oct 2018 #3
Spanky will need to invite them first. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #4
Nope. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2018 #5
Not really RhodeIslandOne Oct 2018 #6
Maybe they should bring him a jersey MontanaMama Oct 2018 #7
And...at his next NAZI rally he'll be talking about how the SOX BEGGED him Bengus81 Oct 2018 #8
Red Sox fans to celebrate with World Series winners in parade Wednesday... asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #9
Join in with Steph Curry and Lebron James and Colin K....a sports trifecta. libdem4life Oct 2018 #10
I'm pretty sure the first Puerto Rican manager to ever win the WS would say ... malchickiwick Oct 2018 #11
Cora was asked about this at the post game conference. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2018 #13
NO flotsam Oct 2018 #12

AJT

(5,240 posts)
1. I don't think they should go. 45 would just use it as a photo op.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:30 PM
Oct 2018

And faux news would sell it as a positive thing.

MANative

(4,105 posts)
3. Kind of doubt that an invite will be forthcoming, anyway.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:37 PM
Oct 2018

He'll make some excuse to avoid honoring them.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
4. Spanky will need to invite them first.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:37 PM
Oct 2018

I'll be mildly surprised if he does, especially after that idiotic tweet the other night.

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
8. And...at his next NAZI rally he'll be talking about how the SOX BEGGED him
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:43 PM
Oct 2018

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to give them an invite to the WH. Watch for it...............

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
10. Join in with Steph Curry and Lebron James and Colin K....a sports trifecta.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 01:46 PM
Oct 2018

Basketball, football and now baseball. And explicitly say why. He's a lunatic on the loose. Make Our Sports Heroes Great....again, and again and again and again.

He's further sullied himself with sliming our American pastime over and over...National Sports. That's the only kind of Nationalist I want to see...black, brown, Asian or white.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,862 posts)
13. Cora was asked about this at the post game conference.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 02:52 PM
Oct 2018

He said, and I paraphrase, "this is not the time to talk about this". Cora, when he was hired, had one demand in his salary (he is amongst the lowest paid managers, btw) and that was a commitment by the RS to send relief supplies to his hometown in PR.

Yeah, I don't think Cora has any interest in showing up at Trump's WH. A lot of the players are from the PR/DR/Aruba, etc. pretty sure they will follow suit.

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