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Jackie Bradley Jr. is one of three Boston Red Sox players to publicly state he will not be present when his teammates visit President Donald Trump at the White House this spring. Now the Gold Glove outfielder is taking to social media to explain his decision. Or perhaps more accurately, to correct people who he says incorrectly assumed his decision was politically or racially motivated. In a message posted to Twitter on Friday, Bradley adamantly states that politics didn’t play a role in his decision. He goes as far as to state it didn’t matter if it was Donald Trump...

The Red Sox have had enough. At a moment when racial tensions have escalated rapidly and the removal of Confederate statues acts as a flashpoint for violent and racially divisive protests, the Red Sox are ready to start taking down a symbol of their own racially tainted history.

Martha Coakley must be getting pretty desperate. See her latest add herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OM5udILoC4Disclaimer: it is a joke

Strike One: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists … They’re gone. They’re not there anymore.” Strike Two: “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?” Strike Three: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.” ... Let’s start with those three quotes above. The first, from a Jan. 11 debate in which Coakley called for a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, was defended by the folks at MediaMatters, who feel that she was not talking about...

But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….

Monday, August 2, 2004 Foul ball Posted: August 2, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Michael Ackley's columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which. By Michael Ackley © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com More proof you can't trust the media: When John Kerry threw out the first ball at the Yankees-Red Socks game, the radio play-by-play announcer calmly intoned, "And he throws a strike." Of course, the television replay showed the presidential candidate bouncing the pitch short of the plate. The looping throw was in...