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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Top 10 Reasons Donald Trump Is Refusing to Throw Out the First Pitch of Baseball Season [View all]
These are the top 10 reasons Donald Trump is refusing to throw out the first pitch of the Nationals' baseball season.
10. Gesture would implicitly condone actions of Cuban players who helped Ted Cruz's dad shoot President Kennedy in the head
9. Hands too small, can't grab ball
8. Unclear where ball should be grabbed anyway given that it doesn't have a (fill in the blank)
7. Players are too old and too male to make for good locker-room sleazeball creeping
6. Upset that Obama beat out Mike Trout for ISIS MVP award despite worse advanced stats
5. Disappointed when someone told him there are no Trump University alums playing in the game because Trump University didn't have a baseball team and was, in fact, a high-pressure sales scam rather than a real institution of higher learning
4. Presence of actual, complete, non-imaginary wall in outfield makes him jealous
3. Can't sleep because he keeps seeing this on the inside of his eyelids every time he tries to get even a moment's peace. By God, her visage haunts his very dreams
2. Would probably be booed mercilessly given that he has an extremely low approval rating and would be appearing in a city in which he only got four percent of the vote anyway
1. Still upset about 1947 integration of the major leagues
Thanks for reading! Number two is probably the real reason. Also number one.
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The Top 10 Reasons Donald Trump Is Refusing to Throw Out the First Pitch of Baseball Season [View all]
Heartstrings
Mar 2017
OP
Didn't he brag about being the 'best' college baseball player, in the entire country??
Siwsan
Mar 2017
#6
Sean Spicer's Top 10 Reasons that Donald Trump is Not Throwing Out the First Pitch
Chiyo-chichi
Mar 2017
#23