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| TRUMP: Taking advice from Sox fans? |
It
must be. Because to listen to the presidential campaign strategy of Donald
Trump, he’s going to engage in political payback against the obscenely wealthy
Rickets family, which helped fund the unsuccessful effort to try to defeat
Trump in the Florida primary earlier this month.
AND
WHAT WILL that payback be? Possibly television spots that remind us of how
unsuccessful one of the Ricketts family’s business interests has been – as in
the Chicago Cubs.
Basically,
Trump is going to devote his time and energy to tell us that the “Cubs Suck!”
Which is what any devotee of Chicago White Sox ball games has been saying for
generations.
It
was last month that Trump used a Twitter account to imply the Ricketts family
was somehow conspiring against him with their political contributions and tried
to intimidate them by saying “they’d better watch out.”
Now,
Trump used an interview he gave to the Washington Post to say the Ricketts
family “ought to focus on the Chicago Cubs.” He also said, “I’ll start taking
ads telling them all what a rotten job they’re doing with the Chicago Cubs.”
OOH,
THAT’S REAL hard-hitting stuff. What’s next, he’s going to tell us that Domino’s
pizza stinks as well?
Now
I know some political observers are mocking Trump because of his timing – after
all, there are some baseball people who want to believe that 2016 is THE YEAR
that the Cubs will finally be a championship team.
Donald’s
so dumb, he doesn’t know the Cubs are good – is what they’re thinking. I’m not
willing to go that far. The Cubs may have come close last year to doing
something, but they still fell short. And it’s always possible that 2015 will
be the closest the Cubs come to achieving anything.
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| Am I the only one who thinks Tom Ricketts ... |
2016
could turn out to be a near miss.
SO
I’M NOT going to ridicule Trump because he said the Cubs stink. Heck, they have
been terrible for so many years, including several of the years that the
Ricketts family has owned the team.
What
I’m going to ridicule Trump for (not just his hair) is his thought that the
Cubs in any way are relevant during a political campaign. There are many people
who turn to following baseball (or any professional sport) as a form of escape
from the daily details of life.
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| ... bears a resemblance to Ted Cruz? |
Now,
Trump wants to merge them in a way that is bad. He could wind up turning people
off. He could wind up being the person who makes the Ricketts family look
downright sympathetic!
Heck,
for his own sake, Trump ought to hope that the Chicago Cubs aren’t the national
phenomenon that many of their fans believe the team is. Because if so, I could
easily see where Cubs fans would be so disgusted at their choice of a favorite
ball club being singled out to score political points that they turn on Donald.
CUBS
FANS WHO had thought of backing Trump would change their minds and vote for
somebody else. And those who were supporting someone else before will now
become vehemently in favor of that someone else.
Trump
thinks he’s bigger than the Cubs? Bigger than baseball? No politician is bigger
than pop culture. The Cubs could easily become the factor that takes down The
Donald.
Now
I don’t know how much Trump knows, or cares, about baseball. I’ve heard those
reports claiming that back when he was in prep school he played first base and
was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies.
I
also remember that late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner used to like
to invite pseudo-celebs like Trump to Yankee Stadium to add to the ball club’s
aura.
BUT
I’D SAY all the Ricketts family has to do in response to any baseball-related
attack on themselves is release the video of Trump and television commentator
Bill O’Reilly doing “The Wave.”
That
sight alone ought to show us just how un-presidential Trump truly is.
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