[QUOTE=srobins;52028893]I'm the resident devil's advocate for Trump and even I think it's fucked to skip throwing the ceremonial pitch. Part of your job as POTUS is to serve as a cheerleader for the country, to promote some sense of morale and pride and community in the nation. Skipping one of the oldest American presidential traditions is a complete joke, especially for someone who actively criticized Obama for not being a proper presidential representative of our country.
[editline]29th March 2017[/editline]
Not to mention "he has a job to do, he's busy" is [B]bullshit[/B]. He's constantly golfing and even holding fucking [I]rallies[/I] despite having already won the presidency.[/QUOTE]
Yeah and he shouldn't be fucking golfing or holding rallies. He should sit his ass in the White House and do his god damn job.
But he isn't breaking with tradition though.
The tradition is that a president throws out a first pitch at least once over the course of their presidency. Not that they throw out the first pitch every year.
Obama, for example, only did it once while he was in office, and it wasn't even in the first year of his presidency.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;52029028]Yeah and he shouldn't be fucking golfing or holding rallies. He should sit his ass in the White House and do his god damn job.[/QUOTE]
For your safety, I must recommend you don't hold your breath on that happening either.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;52029058]For your safety, I must recommend you don't hold your breath on that happening either.[/QUOTE]
Would you prefer he be doing something political instead of golfing? lol
Remember when people gave shit to Obama about not wearing a flag lapel?
Wonder what those same people think of this.
probably afraid of getting memed on
rip 107 years old presidential tradition
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;52029058]For your safety, I must recommend you don't hold your breath on that happening either.[/QUOTE]
I don't expect it happen either. :v:
[QUOTE=snookypookums;52028377]Usually, this isn't a big deal to me, but when you [I]pass[/I] on a [B]107[/B]year old tradition, that is like dropping trou and pee-ing on the commoners.
What a jerk - I hope the Nationals win every single game of the season and make it because this clown didn't show up to throw the first pitch, they weren't tainted by his orangey cowardice and so, did well in the season.
Then, go back to the old one, making him look like the fucking exception. I hope there's a plaque somewhere in the Nationals stadium that just leaves that space blank or better yet, fills it in with "No name president" or something insulting.[/QUOTE]
Nah I think most people just hate him and this is another thing for them to shit on. I don't like him but seriously who cares? This is laughable at most, he is skipping on pitching a ball.
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;52029055]But he isn't breaking with tradition though.
The tradition is that a president throws out a first pitch at least once over the course of their presidency. Not that they throw out the first pitch every year.
Obama, for example, only did it once while he was in office, and it wasn't even in the first year of his presidency.[/QUOTE]
I feel like this is context that should have been in the OP, thanks.
For the sake of factual accuracy I feel this should be posted.
[QUOTE]Trump is not breaking a 100-year-old baseball tradition.
[...]
Heck, they were already irregular by the end of the last century. Bill Clinton did first-pitch honors several times, including in Baltimore. Ditto for the elder George Bush. But Ronald Reagan, according to Baseball Almanac, did not throw out a first pitch until April 1984 — his fourth chance. (He was scheduled to throw out a first pitch in 1981, but was sidelined by injuries suffered in an assassination attempt.) Jimmy Carter, according to the site, never threw out a first pitch while in office.
And before that, of course, baseball was gone from Washington for decades. In fact, the last president to throw out a first pitch in Washington in his first post-election spring was Richard Nixon — in 1969. That was 48 years ago! That’s almost half the length of this supposed 100-year-old tradition!
So the best way to quickly summarize this: President Trump on Monday is not doing something that presidents have occasionally done. And yet…[...]:
AJC.com: “President Donald Trump is breaking with a 107-year tradition by declining to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ Opening Day.”[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2017/03/29/no-president-trump-did-not-just-break-a-100-year-old-first-pitch-tradition/[/url]
In case he doesn't throw one pitch during his term, consider me disappointed. But we are not there yet.
but NOT doing it is the worst possible thing you can do, if you do it and fuck it up all you have to do it laugh it off
Once again showing he's a fucking idiot who cares more for his ego than anything else
Yeah, I was gonna say there's a "tradition" of Presidents throwing the first pitch at baseball games (Usually the more important ones, Opening Days, All Star Game, World Series Opener, etc), but if there was one for presidents throwing the first pitch in DC it ended when the Senators moved like 50 years ago.
Not to say he will do one, but he'll have plenty of chances to throw a first pitch this year and for the next three years. Obama "broke" this tradition as well, his first first pitch was at the 2009 All-Star Game.
Dredging up some old tradition that ended in the 70's and freaking out about Trump "breaking" this "107 Year Old Tradition" for a sport you probably don't give a shit about is just more justification for Trump supporters to keep calling media outlets fake news.
[QUOTE=Kecske;52029124]For the sake of factual accuracy I feel this should be posted.
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2017/03/29/no-president-trump-did-not-just-break-a-100-year-old-first-pitch-tradition/[/url]
In case he doesn't throw one pitch during his term, consider me disappointed. But we are not there yet.[/QUOTE]
Just because it hasn't been an annual occurrence doesn't mean it isn't a 107 year old tradition. From the article in the OP:
[quote]The tradition of presidents throwing ceremonial first pitches dates back 107 years to when William Howard Taft opened the Washington Senators’ season in 1910. Since then, 13 presidents have thrown out a ceremonial pitch at a baseball game. Every president since Ronald Reagan has taken part in a ceremonial first pitch during his first year in office. [/quote]
[QUOTE=Paramud;52029260]Just because it hasn't been an annual occurrence doesn't mean it isn't a 107 year old tradition. From the article in the OP:[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Every president since Ronald Reagan has taken part in a ceremonial first pitch during his first year in office.[/QUOTE]
So he still has until the World Series ends in November to not break this sacred tradition. I know you guys don't actually give a shit about baseball, but its a long fucking season.
Thought the title was "Trump decides to throw ceremonial bitch fit".
[QUOTE=Paramud;52029260]Just because it hasn't been an annual occurrence doesn't mean it isn't a 107 year old tradition. From the article in the OP:[/QUOTE]
How did he break it then? Even if he has to throw in his first year (which would make it a 33 year old tradition) he still has 8 months to do it. Taft did it in his second year.
This is not a tradition I would say is scandalous to skip. Disappointing? Very. But ultimately wrecking? Nah.
It seems he hates to be in the true public as he prefers rallies where he won't have the feared likelihood of people laughing or booing at him. He wants to be viewed as "Teflon" Don in a tunnel view instead of "tissue thin" Don in an open field.
How un-American.
This aligned with all the shit he's up to just makes him sound comically evil.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52028461]But he's in the GOP, the party that gives the most shit about tradition[/QUOTE]
Is this the War on Baseball?
[QUOTE=Keelwar;52028353]Trump honestly seems determined to destroy his approval rating. He's a celebrity, shouldn't he care about PR?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure from the very beginning he said something along the lines of "I'm not in this to make friends."
He's probably afraid of someone trying to shoot him. Being the worst president ever tends to put a target on your back.
Am I alone when I don't give a single fuck about baseball and think this is another nontroversy?
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;52029055]But he isn't breaking with tradition though.
The tradition is that a president throws out a first pitch at least once over the course of their presidency. Not that they throw out the first pitch every year.
Obama, for example, only did it once while he was in office, and it wasn't even in the first year of his presidency.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this seems like a big non-story (or at least "non-scandal") for me, having read nothing but OP's article.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52028811]I don't give a shit about baseball, in fact, I'm looking forward for e-sports to kill it off for good but trump is not presidential at all. He is extremely disconnected from the american people, his office, and reality.
And his tower isn't ivory, it's gilded
[t]http://cdn-image.travelandleisure.com/sites/default/files/styles/tnl_redesign_article_landing_page/public/1479327961/trump-tower-penthouse-sofa-PENTHOUSE1116.jpg?itok=bEAMJ2w3[/t]
Although I guess that cheap shit covered in a thin layer of gold to make it look nice describes him well[/QUOTE]
Why on earth would competitive video games destroy baseball? And why should it?
The fact that he isn't actually breaking tradition is something that has been bothering me about Trump news recently.
There's plenty ALREADY wrong with the current administration, why do news agencies have to keep drumming up relatively innocuous stuff like this to make it seem like it's FUBAR in washington? It's reminiscent of the bullshit fox news would spout about Obama, but coming from the other side.
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52029241]but NOT doing it is the worst possible thing you can do, if you do it and fuck it up all you have to do it laugh it off [/QUOTE]
lmao can you imagine people just ignoring the botched throw from trump? the memes would be off the charts. in terms of PR i'm pretty sure trumps doing the right thing.
it's just throwing a ball anyway, i'm unsure half of you would care nearly as much if it wasn't trump.
[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;52030049]lmao can you imagine people just ignoring the botched throw from trump? the memes would be off the charts. in terms of PR i'm pretty sure trumps doing the right thing.
it's just throwing a ball anyway, i'm unsure half of you would care nearly as much if it wasn't trump.[/QUOTE]
I don't think anyone cares about the act itself, it's just that this is yet another in a long line of Trump breaking tradition for no real reason.
[QUOTE=Paramud;52030191]I don't think anyone cares about the act itself, it's just that this is yet another in a long line of Trump breaking tradition for no real reason.[/QUOTE]
He isn't though
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