MLB to look into umpire tweet referencing gun, Trump critics

[left-of-center2012]

Commissioner Rob Manfred says Major League Baseball will look into a politicized tweet by umpire Rob Drake that referenced a rifle and critics of President Donald Trump.

Drake posted this message to Twitter on Tuesday: “I will be buying an AR-15 tomorrow, because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020”

The tweet has since been deleted.

Manfred spoke at Minute Maid Park on Wednesday night before Game 2 of the World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.



https://www.apnews.com/9132f013d4724f8ead06e43374282a5f

[Aristus]

1. Oh my; I can only wonder what the hell a 'cival' war is.

Dare I hope someone who can't spell correctly doesn't know which end of the gun is which?

[left-of-center2012]

4. "... what the hell a 'cival' war is."

Hmm?

Cival is an archaeological site in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands, which was formerly a major city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the present-day Department of Petén, Guatemala.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cival

[orwell]

2. Houston we have a problem...

... I love the smell of toxic masculinity in the morning...

[oasis]

3. "Impeach my president"??????

[Baked Potato]

5. Off base

With no balls

[USALiberal]

6. The union will protect him. Nt

[stopbush]

8. I doubt it.

[empedocles]

7. The sub rosa firing of this jerk would be for stupidity

[MarcA]

9. drake's version of an oldie.

Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd.
Buy me some ammo and an AR-15,
I don't care if Those People never come back.

So it's root, root, root for the tyrant,
if he doesn't win then it's Cival war.

For it's Bam! Bam! Bam! your dead
at the ole ball game.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Ironically, he's kind of lucky he said this during the WS

because there's no way the league takes action on it until after the series and everyone's attention is back on the goddamned NFL...