Dodgers' Rich Hill responds to Donald Trump's tweet criticizing Dave Roberts

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A day after the Los Angeles Dodgers lost Game 4 of the World Series, starting pitcher Rich Hill denounced President Trump's critical tweet questioning the Dodgers' strategy.

He said Trump should be more concerned with Saturday's shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue rather than decisions made by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

“There was a mass shooting yesterday," he told reporters. "The focus, in my opinion, of the president is to be on the country, and not on moves that are made in a World Series game.”

Trump was scorned for tweeting about the World Series hours after the synagogue massacre, and he was accused of insensitivity.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/10/28/rich-hill-president-trump-dodgers-world-series/1802518002/

[Blue_true]

1. A manager who has watched a player over 162 games know a lot more about that player

than an armchair idiot. Good response by Hill and also a classy response by Roberts also.

[Xipe Totec]

2. He has the attention span of a drug addled gnat with ADD. nt

[iluvtennis]

3. Rich Hill is spot on. Trump should worry about remedying the hate crimes that his political

platform has incited. All in 1 week, we had:

* MAGABomber try to take out Democrats with pipe bombs
* 2 black ppl murdered in Kroger store in Kentucky for being black (the murderer tried a church 1st, but it was locked up)
* 11 Jewish ppl murdered in Pittsburgh synagogue simply for being Jews

But, naw, he wants to talk about the world series.

[Snake Plissken]

4. How's Trump's USFL team doing these days?

Oh yeah I forgot he bankrupted that too ... never mind.

[AdamGG]

7. Trump was the one that pushed the USFL to move from a spring schedule to the fall instead

They were successful playing in the spring (and would have continued to be), but Trump was the primary force that pushed them to go head to head against the NFL with a fall schedule. That was a matchup they were bound to lose. I've wondered if Trump was a secret agent for the NFL owners, crashing the USFL for them, or if his decision making was truly that bad. He probably didn't care if the league crashed, but hoped that in the end, the Generals would get merged into the NFL.

Either way, he's a backstabber or incompetent - I think both.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

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9. Was what Rich Hill said Perfect or

or what?!

[SunSeeker]

10. Yes, though it is sad that he has to say it.

We have the most unpresidential President in our history.

[Cha]

11. trump's the anti-Christ.. that's what

makes it so brilliant when so many people famous and otherwise are speaking out truth to Power, and showing they know more about being human and presidential than trump would in a million years.

[lame54]

6. I hope Trump lost a couple of hotels on the game

[Cha]

8. PERFECT!!!! Thank You, Rich Hill!!!!

[Jamaal510]

12. K&R