White House ceremony honoring Red Sox awkward from the startMore awkwardness at the link.
The White House Thursday morning sent out a scheduled post on its website stating, “President Trump Welcomes the 2018 World Series Champions The Boston Red Socks to the White House.’’
I am not making this up.
Red Socks.
In a time-honored and now-controversial tradition, a portion of the Sox gathered at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Thursday and heard laudatory remarks delivered by President Donald Trump. The president spoke for nine minutes (my favorite moment came when he asked Steve Pearce how his season was going), called upon Chris Sale, J.D. Martinez, and Sox owner John Henry to make remarks, then thanked everybody and gave the Socks entourage a tour of the Lincoln bedroom.
UPDATE AT 3:50 PM - A commenter points out the obvious, and that is this: the Boston Globe / Dan Shaughnessy coverage of Boston sports teams at the White House is a function of the occupant of the Oval Office. If it's a Democrat, the primary focus is on the player(s) who do not attend and what bad people they are. If it's a Republican, the focus is on the President and what a 'thorny issue' this is and how the players involved should 'start distancing themselves from some of his polarizing policies'. Good to know Obama never had any polarizing policies!
And yet Tim Thomas was crucified by Dan's paper for not going in 2011.
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1,000% correct; I should've put that in originally. Will update now, and thanks!
ReplyDeleteDouble standard...the hypocrisy....
ReplyDeleteHonestly, this whole "honoring of champions at the White House" needs to end. If every one of these is going to focus on who goes or doesn't go, what food is served, any perceived divides or slights, etc., then there's no point to the charade.
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