Confirmed by @Nationals : Trump not scheduled to throw out the first pitch if there's a Game 5...

[demmiblue]

Confirmed by @Nationals: Trump not scheduled to throw out the first pitch if there's a Game 5 of the World Series. Instead, he'll watch @chefjoseandres-- a critic who pulled out of Trump's DC hotel -- throw the ceremonial pitch

From the press release: "If a Game 5 is necessary, the Nationals will welcome chef and humanitarian José Andrés to throw a ceremonial first pitch. Named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in both 2012 and 2018, Andrés is an internationally-recognized...

...culinary innovator and founder of World Central Kitchen. In January 2019 Andrés opened a World Central Kitchen on Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C. to feed federal workers who were furloughed during the government shutdown." (h/t my @cnnsport
colleagues)

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

1. I can hear the booing already

Trump doesn't appear in public. All his rallies are private events with the attendees heavily screened (if not outright hired) and anyone insufficiently enthusiastic about Needy Amin can be ejected. Nationals Stadium will be an actual, honest-to-goodness public appearance. I predict it doesn't go well; not just Trump's opponents are hoping for a Nationals sweep.

[Wounded Bear]

7. He'll probably sit in the owners box...

and use VIP access. They'd be well served not to even announce his presence.

[gratuitous]

9. You're probably right

For all the legend-in-his-own-mind delusions, being out in public just isn't something Trump does.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I wanted to see him fall on his ass.

Bummer.

[brewens]

3. I agree. He might not fall on his ass, but there is no way he could look anything but ridiculous

out there. He'd get booed massively as well.

[demmiblue]

6. ...

[smirkymonkey]

14. God, he's disgusting.

Look at that revolting POS.

[Initech]

12. He's too top-heavy, he'd fall on his face before his ass.

[thinkingagain]

4. He couldn't have thrown the ball anyhow

He’d have to have someone do it for him. Because he wouldn’t know how.

[rsdsharp]

10. I defer to no one in my hatred of Trump but he actually CAN throw.

There is video of him throwing out the first pitch in a minor league game, and he smoked a strike right down the middle. Admittedly that was 15 years ago, and he wasn't wearing body armor, but he did well.

The only thing I ever approved of GW Bush doing was throwing out a first pitch well. I believe that was in 2001 when he was at the height of his popularity. Trump won't do it because he knows there would be crescendos of boos.

[thucythucy]

5. Must be his bone spurs acting up again. nt

[Norbert]

8. Now I want to see the Nats sweep with no game 5

[Brother Buzz]

11. WOW, Jose Andres throwing the first pitch is a pointed stick in the orange anus' eye

Hats off the the Nationals for their choice!!!!

[blaze]

13. Yes!!!!

They already won me over with the whole Baby Shark thing....

But bringing in Jose Andres is epic shade!!!

I might have to go buy some Nats gear.