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That they’d pick Trump for president over Democrat Hillary Clinton – who’s actually a Cubs fan.
JUST
A THOUGHT put into my head when I learned that Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne
Conway was spreading thoughts about, letting people learn of the story that the
FiveThirtyEight.com had published during the weekend headlined “The Cubs Have A
Smaller Chance of Winning Than Trump Does.”
The
website that likes to reduce everything that happens in our society down to
mathematics wrote its piece back when the Cubs were one game away from losing
the World Series. Who’d have figured Cleveland could be unable to win one more
game in three tries?
Now
that the Cubs have that World Series championship, Conway would like for us to
think that Trump can overcome all the obstacles that various polls have shown
stand in between Trump and the presidency.
Such
as all those groups of voters that Trump has gone out of his way to demonize so
that he could gain the political support of conservative ideologues and other
crackpots in our society!
WHAT’S
FUNNY IS that earlier this year, Trump tried putting some distance between
himself and the Ricketts family, the wealthy people who own the Chicago Cubs
and were once among the Republican types who publicly were denouncing Donald.
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But the two sides have clearly made nice – what with the Ricketts family elder making sizable contributions to political action committees that are trying to get Republicans to overcome the contempt they may feel personally for Trump.
Although
one of those political action committees is a group trying to get Latinos to
take seriously the notion that they should cast ballots for Trump – even though
Latinos have been amongst the groups that Trump has most vehemently demonized
to try to get himself nativist votes.
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Although the Latino Decisions group based in Miami recently came out with its own study saying that Trump likely was going to take about 18 percent of Latino votes come Tuesday – which will make him the weakest GOP presidential candidate ever when it comes to that segment of the electorate!
SO
WHAT’S THE deal? The Ricketts family is now willing to blow the good will they’d
gain from a Chicago Cubs victory by getting in bed with Trump?
Or
could it be that the Ricketts family doesn’t realize the potential good will
that could come from having their ball club be the preferential choice of the
occupant of the Oval Office.
The
Chicago White Sox certainly managed to gain some national attention from the
fact that Barack Obama always vocally referred to himself as a fan – to the
point where he ticked off Major League Baseball when he insisted on wearing his
White Sox warm-up jacket when appearing publicly at an All-Star Game rather
than a more-neutral jacket touting the game itself.
Do
they not want a “President Hillary Clinton” who would think nothing of donning
the baby blue of the Cubbies in public and talking up her own childhood memories
of following the ball club?
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OR
DOES TRUMP, whose own baseball loyalties seem to be tied to being seen sitting
next to New York Yankees former owner George Steinbrenner at Yankee Stadium,
have some dirt that he really can use on the Ricketts family – as he hinted way
back in March?
Speaking
of Obama, I did find it intriguing that he issued his own statement
acknowledging his Sox ties but also congratulating the Cubs and offering to
have their White House visit take place before he leaves office in mid-January.
Which
would be odd, since the official visit of World Series winners usually takes
place the following spring, which would let presidents Clinton or Trump be the
one who gets to look dorky while trying to leech public attention off the
ballplayers.
Does
Obama want to steal this moment from Hillary? Would it wind up being a joint
Obama/Clinton appearance with the Cubs? Or is Barack trying to ensure that it
won’t be a President Trump that gets a moment of glory being seen in public
with the baby Bruins?
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The fact that one-time baseball star Pete Rose signed that particular ball for Donald Trump is probably enough reason not to vote for him to be president. Particularly since it makes me wonder how much Rose charged Trump for his autograph, which may well be his most reliable source of income -- unless you really thought much of Rose's performance as a sports commentator during World Series broadcasts!
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