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Former President Donald Trump to attend World Series Game 4 in Atlanta

Former President Donald Trump said he plans to attend Game 4 of the World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros at Truist Park in Atlanta on Saturday.

“Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight,” Trump said in a statement Saturday, adding that he and former first lady Melania “are looking forward to a wonderful evening watching two great teams!”

He thanked MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and New York Yankees’ president Randy Levine for the invite.
Atlanta Braves CEO Terry McGuirk told USA Today on Wednesday that Trump will not be sitting with team or MLB officials and that the Braves will give Trump his own suite.

“He called MLB and wanted to come to the game,’’ McGuirk told the paper. “We were very surprised. Of course, we said yes.’‘

RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: October 30, 2021 at 05:43 PM | 52 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Addie Joss Posted: October 30, 2021 at 06:58 PM (#6050135)

Kind of like his idol at the 1936 Olympics.

2. Tom Nawrocki Posted: October 30, 2021 at 07:27 PM (#6050140)

One difference is that I think the 1936 guy was invited to be there.

3. they sit at the same 57i66135 and eat sometimes Posted: October 30, 2021 at 07:44 PM (#6050141)

probably just there to sell face paint.

4. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 30, 2021 at 08:36 PM (#6050150)

Makes sense. He's only spent the last year dumping on Georgia and MLB.

5. Tin Angel Posted: October 30, 2021 at 09:35 PM (#6050181)

Supporting MLB after they took the all-star game away from Atlanta? Sounds like a real beta cuck.

6. John Northey Posted: October 30, 2021 at 09:48 PM (#6050187)

I'm hoping he gets tons of boos if/when they show him on the screen. Ideally someone dumps a drink on him. I haven't watched the WS so far and this just keeps encouraging me to avoid it.

7. WKRP in Cincinnatus Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:05 PM (#6050190)

Lol

8. filihok Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:19 PM (#6050199)

Got his video op doing the chop to satisfy his followers

9. My name is Votto, and I love to get Moppo Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:27 PM (#6050204)

Rosario is just in the zone, wow.

10. WKRP in Cincinnatus Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:28 PM (#6050206)

Former Cubs great, Brooks Raley!

11. Jose Canusee Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:34 PM (#6050212)

Can imagine a Uecker-ish Lite beer commercial where he says "the good thing about being an ex-president is that you call up the front office and they give you a ticket". Then he sits in a luxury box and an usher says "no not this box Mr. President" and you see him go behind a closed door and hear "ump you're fired" then they pan out and it's a restroom.

12. the Hugh Jorgan returns Posted: October 30, 2021 at 10:40 PM (#6050215)

hey pan out and it's a restroom.

So you're suggesting Trump belongs in a restroom because he's a turd? That makes sense.

13. Rough Carrigan

Posted: October 30, 2021 at 11:12 PM (#6050247)

And Atlanta fans continue doing the tomahawk chop partly just to #### with the pretentious jerks who want to micromanage their lives.

14. GregD Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:19 AM (#6050306)

That’ll show those jerks who the real jerks are

15. bookbook Posted: October 31, 2021 at 03:27 AM (#6050314)

Doing the racism to #### with the libs.

It beats overthrowing democracy to protest imaginary election fraud, I suppose. But that is a mighty low bar, indeed.

16. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 31, 2021 at 09:29 AM (#6050319)

Kind of like his idol at the 1936 Olympics.

Jessie Owens is Trump's idol? Cool!

17. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 31, 2021 at 09:50 AM (#6050321)

That’ll show those jerks who the real jerks are

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all the GOP can offer its non-wealthy constituents.

18. Slivers of Maranville descends into chaos (SdeB) Posted: October 31, 2021 at 10:15 AM (#6050325)

Jessie Owens is Trump's idol? Cool!

Jesse Owens is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.

19. winnipegwhip Posted: October 31, 2021 at 10:42 AM (#6050326)

I heard he is going to a Wheat Kings game next.

20. Perry Posted: October 31, 2021 at 12:37 PM (#6050340)

I noticed they stuck him high up in the right field corner. Probably could have scored a better seat on StubHub, but I guess he doesn't have that kind of dough.

21. reech Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:07 PM (#6050343)

He thought the Tomahawk Chop was a Sieg Hiel and he was all excited.

22. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:08 PM (#6050344)

I noticed they stuck him high up in the right field corner. Probably could have scored a better seat on StubHub, but I guess he doesn't have that kind of dough.

Did the TV cameras pan to him at all? And if they did, then when was it?

23. reech Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:10 PM (#6050345)

Did the TV cameras pan to him at all?

Since it was Fox, I am surprised they didn't send Joe Buck up there to blow him.

24. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:15 PM (#6050346)

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all either party can offer anybody.

Fixed.

25. .

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:22 PM (#6050347)

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all the GOP can offer its non-wealthy constituents.

I'm in my usual "pox on both their houses" position on this, but it sure looks an awful like it's the leftists starting the "culture war" here.

Those of us old enough can remember Jane Fonda and Ted Turner chopping away from the front row during the early 90s World Series including at least once with Jimmy Carter himself sitting right next there by them. There was certainly an element then that bemoaned the chop, but the difference then is that there wasn't a media ecosystem driven by clickbait and perpetual round-the-clock emotional outrage, performative or otherwise. Repeating, it's not really my cup of tea -- very few things that big mass crowds of middle-aged middlebrow white people do are -- but it's also not really that big a deal.

26. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 01:41 PM (#6050349)

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all either party can offer anybody.

lol

27. they sit at the same 57i66135 and eat sometimes Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:03 PM (#6050353)

He thought the Tomahawk Chop was a Sieg Hiel and he was all excited.

i'm not gonna post the video, but it is a quite a stretch to say that he was excited.

28. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:04 PM (#6050354)

And Atlanta fans continue doing the tomahawk chop partly just to #### with the pretentious jerks who want to micromanage their lives.

Yep. And if they’re going to have the mentality of bratty 12-year-olds, that’s fine, as long as they don’t insist on being treated like adults when it comes to, say, voting,

29. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:07 PM (#6050355)

So...people who do the chop shouldn't be allowed to vote? Right. Sure.

Trump is a jerk, and he does this stuff solely to trigger people like you. And, boy, ain't you triggered!

Thank you for your cooperation.

30. they sit at the same 57i66135 and eat sometimes Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:15 PM (#6050356)

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all either party can offer anybody.

when i go to a restaurant, noone chainsmokes half a carton of cigarettes at the next table while i'm trying to eat my meal. #liberalnannystate4lyfe

31. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:16 PM (#6050357)

Grievances and culture war bullshit is all either party can offer anybody.

Fixed.

Whether you agree with it or not, the Democrats are at least trying to pass a spending bill right now that would benefit millions of Americans. I personally don't like everything that was in there (i.e. free community college), but it's at least something that's intended to help the citizens of this country. Yeah, the left gets into the culture war stuff, but it's not the party's entire modus operandi the way it's become for the GOP.

32. .

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:17 PM (#6050358)

And, boy, ain't you triggered!

They should just get off the internet for a few days and clear out the dopamine. They just sit around seeking out things that are going to put themselves into emotional tumult ... so they can then come and seek therapy from the other tumulted on the internet. It's a strange phenomenon, to say the least -- though certainly good for the pocketbooks of Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and the like.

33. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:32 PM (#6050361)

They should just get off the internet for a few days and clear out the dopamine. They just sit around seeking out things that are going to put themselves into emotional tumult ... so they can then come and seek therapy from the other tumulted on the internet. It's a strange phenomenon, to say the least -- though certainly good for the pocketbooks of Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and the like.

But enough about Republicans.

34. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:33 PM (#6050362)

Trump is a jerk, and he does this stuff solely to trigger people like you. And, boy, ain't you triggered!

Thank you for your cooperation.

Governance by nanny-nanny-boo-boo. Congrats, you really should be proud.

35. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 31, 2021 at 02:36 PM (#6050363)

The party of personal responsibility cannot be held accountable for their own behavior and rhetoric when people do outlandish things like suggest they shouldn't be such insidious ########.

36. .

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 03:15 PM (#6050365)

The party of personal responsibility cannot be held accountable for their own behavior and rhetoric when people do outlandish things like suggest they shouldn't be such insidious ########.

You're not suggesting anything; you're trying to ban them from doing something.

37. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 31, 2021 at 03:58 PM (#6050378)

Both sides always believe the other side is the bulk of the problem. (And that includes me; I consider myself center-right because I think the wacko Left is worse than the wacko Right, albeit only slightly.) The TV news networks and social media titans have made billions of dollars off this.

the Democrats are at least trying to pass a spending bill right now that would benefit millions of Americans.

Yeah, the millions of Americans who put them in office in the first place, with plenty of pork for the lawmakers themselves. (The GOP is no better, of course.)

We were once a country that went places and did things. Now, we go nowhere and do nothing, and we blame each other for it.

Sigh.

38. .

Posted: October 31, 2021 at 05:01 PM (#6050384)

We were once a country that went places and did things. Now, we go nowhere and do nothing, and we blame each other for it.

Zuckerberg and Dorsey and whatever Sulzberger is now publishing the Times absolutely love a captive audience sitting at their computers or on their phones doing nothing but drooling with outrage and looking for the next dopamine hit. From a purely soulless business perspective, they've done a masterful job at creating one. It's run the country into the ground, but, hey -- the business of America is business.

39. 185/456(GGC) Posted: October 31, 2021 at 06:09 PM (#6050388)

Not sure if it's a good thing, but there has been a uptick in manned spaceflight.

40. 185/456(GGC) Posted: October 31, 2021 at 06:20 PM (#6050390)

I just admit, though, that dopamine is some strong ####. When I was an active poster here, I would normally make pretty milquetoast comments. But I would refresh constantly to see if someone replied. I told myself it was proper nettiquette.

41. 185/456(GGC) Posted: October 31, 2021 at 06:44 PM (#6050394)

And, there being no like buttons here, if Repoz linked something I wrote, I'd judge it by the number of comments it generated. I was one sick puppy.

42. The Duke Posted: October 31, 2021 at 07:49 PM (#6050398)

There is a video of him laughing while the crowd chants “let’s go Brandon” to him. It was quite endearing. A man of the people.

43. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 31, 2021 at 09:10 PM (#6050410)

Not sure if it's a good thing, but there has been a uptick in manned spaceflight.

It's a good thing all right. I've given up on seeing a man on Mars in my lifetime, but maybe we can return to the damn moon before I die? Pretty please?

44. The Duke Posted: October 31, 2021 at 11:12 PM (#6050449)

Were we ever on the moon? I’d say with a 99% probability because those reflecting mirrors are still there and there is debris and footprint and Land Rover Evidence from later flybys, but I’d bet we no longer have the capability to do that. We just had a billion dollar ship burn to a crisp because our naval crew had not been trained on how to put out a fire.

Our time is gone - if you want to see a man on the moon, the Chinese are your best bet

To this day I think only about 10 people have walked on the surface of the moon

45. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: November 01, 2021 at 12:07 AM (#6050458)

Putting much, if any, attention on getting another guy on the moon would seem like a vanity project in current times, regardless of who was in the White House. I care much more about things like climate change that I do about ever seeing anyone ever walk on the moon in my lifetime.

46. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: November 01, 2021 at 06:14 PM (#6050584)

I care much more about things like climate change that I do about ever seeing anyone ever walk on the moon in my lifetime.

Well, of course you do.

47. Perry Posted: November 01, 2021 at 06:37 PM (#6050591)

Did the TV cameras pan to him at all? And if they did, then when was it?

Couldn't say, I haven't been watching. The clip I saw was posted on Twitter, looked like it was taken on someone's phone, but he and his entourage were pretty much in Uecker seats.

48. The Yankee Clapper Posted: November 01, 2021 at 07:01 PM (#6050600)

Did the TV cameras pan to him at all? And if they did, then when was it?

Trump was briefly on camera, with Joe Buck noting he was in attendance, once in the early innings. No chop action, and IIRC, the broadcast didn’t ever focus on the crowd doing the chop, a far cry from the heyday of Jane Fonda & Ted Turner. I wasn’t paying rapt attention, although more than some apparently, so I may have missed something.

49. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick

Posted: November 01, 2021 at 07:56 PM (#6050611)

Thanks, YC. I was playing in a pool tournament and only one of their TVs was showing the ball game.

I definitely remember Turner and Fonda chopping all during the 1991 postseason, although Fonda quickly apologized after she got some flack for it.

Mostly, though, I remember camera shots of Fonda sleeping during the game.

50. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: November 01, 2021 at 08:03 PM (#6050612)

Well, of course you do.

One of the more interesting things about Facebook connecting you with older people you would otherwise get to avoid is seeing them both be very proud of their grandchildren while caring #### all what kind of condition the planet will be in for those same kids a generation from now.

51. Best Dressed Chicken in Town Posted: November 01, 2021 at 10:04 PM (#6050640)

A rat done bit my sister Nell
And whitey's on the moon

52. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: November 02, 2021 at 07:20 AM (#6050661)

A sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it
And yet we're sending people to the moon

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