{"id":177306,"date":"2019-10-27T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/27\/i-dont-care-about-the-world-series-but\/"},"modified":"2019-10-27T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:56:00","slug":"i-dont-care-about-the-world-series-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/27\/i-dont-care-about-the-world-series-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Care About the World Series, But \u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BApHB0sngpw\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>I am Amused<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The fact that Donald Trump showed up to game 5 of the world series, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/oct\/27\/donald-trump-booed-world-series-lock-him-up-chants-baseball\">the crowd booed and started chanting, &#8220;Lock him up,&#8221;<\/a> is something that I find intensely amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economicclub.org\/sites\/default\/files\/transcripts\/Trump%20Transcript.pdf\">Donald Trump once claimed<\/a> he was courted by several major league baseball clubs in his youth but turned them down because they couldn\u2019t offer him enough money. On Sunday, baseball got its revenge. <\/p>\n<p>The President attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/oct\/27\/world-series-game-5-houston-astros-v-washington-nationals-live\">Game 5 of the World Series between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros<\/a> at Nationals Park, a short journey from the White House. When Trump was shown on the video screens in the stadium he was loudly booed by fans. That, perhaps, was predictable: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and both Bushes were all booed while attending baseball games as President. What came shortly afterwards was a little more personal in a city that is heavily Democratic as cries of \u201cLock him up!\u201d rang out, a reference to the chants about Hillary Clinton used at Trump\u2019s rallies in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0Oa6HXQ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0Oa6HXQ.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>I wish that I could have seen his face when this happened.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, I can:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Amused The fact that Donald Trump showed up to game 5 of the world series, and the crowd booed and started chanting, &#8220;Lock him up,&#8221; is something that I find intensely amusing: Donald Trump once claimed he was courted by several major league baseball clubs in his youth but turned them down because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,374,486,503,401],"class_list":["post-177306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}