[GregNH]

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.

[BluH2o]

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.

My recollection is vague on this, but didn't John Elway skip out on a WH visit back in the day when the Broncos were winning Super Bowls? That was during Clinton's second term.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

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.

Exactly right.

[Varda]

You are absolutely right and James Harrison agrees.

"Harrison will bypass the traditional ceremony, just as he did when the Steelers were honored by President George W. Bush at the White House in June 2006.

"Why is it a big issue now that I'm not going if it wasn't a big issue the last time?" Harrison said Tuesday after an offseason practice." ESPN

[GOPsterinMA]

The sportsradio stations here were in full-on Touette’s mode...GOOD!!!

God Bless You, Tim Thomas!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

It was mentioned on the radio yesterday that Larry Bird skipped at least 1 WH championship ceremony as well during the 1980’s.

Snub RR? FU too, Larry. The next time I’m in Faneuil Hall and I walk by your sneaker “memorial”, I’ll have a phlegm chunk to deposit on it.

[Impy]

I never heard one word about Fanny Ramirez or Epstein skipping both WH visits.

Guess ESPeeN didn’t find it newsworthy.

Then end of Fanny’s career including his short stint in Chicago was an embarrassment.