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This has nothing to do with anything but the double standard that exist in the media. There have been many players who have skipped out on WH visits in the past with no attention, at least not the attention this is getting.

Of course it has nothing with someone knocking around a black object with a stick and keeping that black object from reaching it goal. I digress.

Red Sox player Manny Ramirez;

Manny celebrated like a kid when he was finally minted an American citizen, running out onto the Fenway field while waving a miniature American flag, but he didn't have much use for George W. Bush. After the team won the World Series in 2004, Ramirez skipped the team's visit to the White House. Johnny Damon covered for him that time, explaining to the president that the slugger's grandmother was sick. When he skipped again after the '07 victory, Bush wasn't hearing any excuses. "I guess his grandmother died again," the president quipped.

Now that hypocrite should have gotten press for his snub. He just became an American Citizen and he snubs a White House visit, TWICE!

And so did this guy.

Theo Epstein was conspicuously missing from both White House visits in 2004 and 2007 when Republican President George W. Bush was in office.

You see the pattern here, I could go on. It's not the snubbing it's the President that is snubbed that makes the difference.