Posted on 03/15/2025 5:29:19 AM PDT by Libloather
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series, securing their second title in the last five seasons after the 2020 title. Since that 2020 win came during an election year, the team made the traditional ceremonial visit to the White House under the Biden Administration. Though it's unclear if Joe Biden knew who the Dodgers were, where he was at the time, or what sport the team plays.
As the 2024 title also came in an election year, the Dodgers should now be set to visit the White House under the second Trump administration. And some opinion writers are very, very unhappy about it.
An article recently published in the Los Angeles Times made the case that the Dodgers should decline the invitation to the White House because it's coming from Donald Trump. And because Los Angeles County has a lot of Democrats in it. Seriously.
"So what should we expect the hometown World Series champs to do in 2025?" wrote Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier. "The logical time for a Trump-Dodgers rapprochement would be in just about a month, when Los Angeles will be headed to Washington to play the Nationals starting April 7. Don’t bet on it."
"All in all, it’s hard to imagine the Dodgers agreeing to a celebratory photo op with the president right now," they continue. "Los Angeles is not just Dodger blue, but Democrat blue. The president lost L.A. County by 33 percentage points. In his feuds with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump has threatened to withhold fire disaster funds without concessions… The World Champion Dodgers should stand up to, not next to, the president."
All because some left-wing voters and maybe a few players can decide for the whole team, even if some players, like say, reliever Blake Treinen, would be...
(Excerpt) Read more at outkick.com ...
Being against the idea of the imperial presidency I don’t think such visits should not take place.
The White House needs to ban all Lost Angels Slimes reporters from entry onto any Government property in the District of Corruption. They are America haters.
Excellent reminder!
Let’s Go Mets!!!
Any advice from the Los Angeles Times you know it’s a 180 degree deal.
Yeah I remember that abomination...
Thanks 👍👍👍
(Let’s Go Mets!!!)
dead has a classic.....
True of whole west coast.
Mets? Sounds like a town in France.
And Gov. Nuisance lost 33% of LA to wildfires.
I have no idea who won last year’s World Series.
Trump should invite the team to Mar-a-Lago.
I heard the Eagles had a pretty good time at the WH
I want to see Shohei Ohtani and the other Japanese players do a polite bow to President Trump.
“Los Angeles Times Column Says Dodgers Should Decline Trump White House Invite”
STOP STOP yer breakin my heart.
The Metropolitan Club. Better?
Left out “delusional effete crybaby” for Dreier description.
How can someone be a DEMOCRATIC socialist? Doesn’t socialism “top-down” rigidly control the behaviours of the populace “for the greater good”? How can that be fully democratic? It’s an oxymoron. Like “down escalator”
Well, there's your answer. Must have been difficult for them to find room for this story among all the illegal alien sob stories they print on the front page.
Don't know of a single person that still subscribes in So Cal - and a generation ago, everyone got the LA Times (I used to help a friend deliver the LA Times when we were in high school and it was the rare house that didn't get an LA Times thrown on the driveway).
I stopped subscribing in 2000 -and would have been sooner if not for the crossword puzzle.
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