World Series Switch
I like baseball.
I watch college ball obsessively and go to lots of Tides games. But I’m a fan without a major league team to call her own.
Weird, I know.
Fact is, I’ve never lived in a city with big-time baseball so I have absolutely no MLB loyalty. My dad was a Red Sox fan, but that didn’t rub off on me. Neither did his loathing of the Yankees.
Many of my pals are Washington Nationals fans, so it seemed natural to pull for the Nats during the Series. Plus, first baseman Ryan Zimmerman is a hometown boy who played at UVa.
For this newly minted Nationals bandwagon fan, the first two games were fun. The second two, not so much.
Then Sunday happened.
On the same day Donald Trump announced that American special ops had killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the president and first lady took in a World Series game and the Nationals fans erupted in boos and chants of “Lock him up.”
It’s their right, of course. Just as it was my right to switch teams after the game was underway.
I couldn’t resist Tweeting about my anger at a baseball game being hijacked by politics. Lots of folks agreed.
Twitter also reminded me that Nationals fans are not typical Americans.
Many are well-heeled Washingtonians - Northern Virginians and Marylanders - who could afford $1,000-plus tickets. Chances are the stands on Sunday were stuffed with highly paid bureaucrats, consultants and lobbyists.
In other words, swamp people.
They thought they were sending the president a message with their behavior. In reality, they sent one to the rest of the country.
The sight of thousands of Washington elites booing the President of the United States on the day a barbaric enemy was killed will make a terrific Trump 2020 campaign commercial. Count on it.
Where most of us come from, you don’t boo the president. No matter who he is.
These fools have no idea how bad they looked.
Oh, and guess what? Being an Astros fan is fun. I highly recommend it. Their bats were hot. Their pitching was superb.
Meanwhile the Nats looked hapless in game five. Karma, maybe?
Two words for tonight:
Go Astros.
