Breaking Tradition, World Series Champion Cubs to Visit White House Before Obama Leaves, Avoiding...
Source: Mediaite
Breaking Tradition, World Series Champion Cubs to Visit White House Before Obama Leaves, Avoiding Trump
by Joe DePaolo | 1:56 pm, January 11th, 2017
Just four days before President Barack Obama leaves office, the World Series champion Chicago Cubs are going to pay him a visit in a break with recent tradition which dictates that the champions visit take place during the next season.
NBC Chicago first reported that the Cubs, who broke their 108 year World Series drought by finally breaking through this past November, will visit the outgoing President on Monday just days before the Inauguration of his successor, Donald Trump.
Obama a longtime fan of the Cubs crosstown rivals, the Chicago White Sox extended the invite on Twitter immediately after the Cubs secured their dramatic Game 7 victory.
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KGBot001
(42 posts)Freethinker65
(10,034 posts)onetexan
(13,056 posts)major snub
underpants
(182,868 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)wouldn't you grab a chance to visit Obama instead?
onetexan
(13,056 posts)not to O. Of course i'd take O over the idiot any day
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)be all about snubbing the slimy orange idiot when the alternative is seeing Obama. Just guessing the problem of Trump, Yuck! probably opened the door to discussion of what they would WANT to do.
underpants
(182,868 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)Trump is all about breaking tradition. It should make him happy.
progressoid
(49,996 posts)riversedge
(70,282 posts)unblock
(52,302 posts)eh, they'd probably snub him too. well i'm sure he can find some russopublican field team to visit him.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)Some of them are hot!
/s
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)unblock
(52,302 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)aggiesal
(8,922 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)Afromania
(2,770 posts)but today, for the first time ever, and against personal edict on the matter.. I have a 2nd/backup favorite team in a major sport.
GO CUBBIES!!!!!!!!!!
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)And, Hillary's supporters, as well.
aggiesal
(8,922 posts)are bigly Republicans.
I believe one of the Ricketts clan is the governator of Nebraska(?).
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I believe one of the brothers is governor.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)...are GOP supporters.
hibbing
(10,107 posts)And his inherited monied idiot son is my governor and is going to do his best to replicate what has taken place in Kansas.
Peace
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)breaking with tradition and not meeting with Gump.
I can easily see the Dodgers snubbing the Shitbag when they win the title next season (hehe).
sheshe2
(83,855 posts)I am so happy that they will see Obama in the White House.
And it is the perfect snub. GObama
Coventina
(27,164 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,361 posts)The Cubbies broke a curse and Obama is going to make sure that a new curse doesn't fall on them from Cousin Itt when he starts talking nonsense like he did today at his presser.
sheshe2
(83,855 posts)'sides, I doubt any team would have a shirt bigly enough for the orange one, if they did they can give him the #0000.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,361 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)but he has class.
Trump is going ot be FUMING. Waiting to see if he calls the World Series champs "losers."
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,570 posts)skylucy
(3,740 posts)wryter2000
(46,076 posts)Visit a real President.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/opinion/forum/here-s-why-athletes-shouldn-t-visit-the-trump-white/article_45c2056a-d859-11e6-86c5-13bbebc77b47.html
. . .The sports world has shown in the last year that it is developing a new kind of consciousness. The best way to extend that in the months ahead is for no team to ever grace this White House with its presence. No one is required to visit; it is not written in any rule book or collective-bargaining agreement. Athletes have a choice, and the choice should be to just say no to going to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, unless its with a picket sign in their hand.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts). . .that cannot be ignored or explained away.
The only other option as Zirin said is with a picket sign in their hand.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)Sports are perhaps the closest thing this nation has to a true meritocracy, and reflect this nation's diversity. Can't see athletes from a wide variety of backgrounds wanting to visit a narrow-minded, regressionist racist.
1965Comet
(175 posts)"the Cubs have always been so overrated...Sad"
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Thank you, Theo! Thank you, Laura! Thank you, President Obama for extending the invitation to them the night they won! I assume it will be web-streamed, and I can't wait to watch!
Part of the reason they broke with tradition is that a number of players won't be back next season. Having the visit during the offseason will allow all of those players to make the trip.
murielm99
(30,755 posts)I've been a fan for fifty years, and thought I would never see them win a World Series.
I am going to thank Laura only. The rest of them are trump scum lovers.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)murielm99
(30,755 posts)He is smart in many ways, then.
Go Cubbies!
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)(No relation to the treasonous Koch Brothers.)
dhill926
(16,351 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)are probably big Hillary supporters. Don't want my picture with them anyway-- such losers. Sad!"
Mister Midnight
(50 posts)They know to avoid rubbish!
WestCoastDem42
(65 posts)Given President Obama's Chicago ties and the daunting specter of going to the White House and being greeted by PEOTUS Cheeto this is totally understandable.
former9thward
(32,066 posts)This is more fake news. There is no reason why he would want to avoid Trump.
ProfessorGAC
(65,140 posts)Epstein was a vocal supporter of both Obama and Clinton.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)So we're now at the point we call it fake news simply because it doesn't validate our biases? Wonderful narrative you've created.
former9thward
(32,066 posts)Lack of it does not seem to cause problems with any theory....
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)I'm so happy to see this.
I was very disappointed, however, to find out that Cub owner Tom Ricketts and family are tRump humpers and paid for anti HRC advertising at the end of the campaign. It is tough for me to reconcile. I love the Cubs so much.
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)Hopefully teams snub the visit over the next 4 years. I could see a lot of guys abstaining from the trip.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Baseball is the only escape I see these days.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)..in all seriousness, it is only fitting that they meet with their "favorite son", the President who lived for years in Chicago.
George II
(67,782 posts)Jimbo S
(2,959 posts)his fragile ego.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Being a Tribe fan I would hope that if they had won they would have done likewise.
So kudos Cubs, Orange guy will never be my president either.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)he's probably going to be thrilled by their visit.
4lbs
(6,858 posts)Cheeto Face grope and drool over them.
Cheeto Face: "Well, Mrs. 'ballplayer name', I have a bat and some balls you can play with...."
Oakenshield
(614 posts)It's only natural the Cubs wanted to visit the White House while there was still a genuine President of the United States residing in it. Ask a child if he/she would rather see a real lion or a cardboard silhouette, they'll choose the real thing every time.
maddogesq
(1,245 posts)Snark snark.
Karma: It's a what's for dinner.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)burrowowl
(17,644 posts)Cha
(297,513 posts)gets trumpee's goat.. tweet on that ya big whiner. They dissed your ass.
Mahalo, DonViejo
And, President Obama must be so grateful and Delighted!
world wide wally
(21,753 posts)MistakenLamb
(535 posts)considering the Ricketts connections and donations to Trump. I know not all of the Ricketts are Trump supporters but good for them for meeting Obama and not Trump.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Good.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)I was so excited about the win. Then days later it all came crashing down when we lost the election and all that was in my mind when I saw the Cubbies symbols around my city was how evil money including ricketts money got him elected.
The whole city had a weird feel too it those weeks. There was crazy excitement when the cubs won then several days later the city felt like it went into a deep depression.
I guess the ricketts could have told the Cubs they would have to be traditional and wait for Trump.
But, like others say Laura and Theo are on our side.
And PK Wrigley was a horrible person.
lark
(23,147 posts)Very, very, successful troll of "his orange spitefulness".