Why is TFG going to a World Series game in Atlanta??

[RamblingRose]

Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend a World Series game in metro Atlanta this weekend, potentially bringing his ongoing feud with Major League Baseball to Truist Park in the midst of the team’s first appearance in the championship round in decades.

Braves chief executive Terry McGuirk told USA Today that Trump called the league to request tickets to attend Saturday’s game against the Houston Astros.

”We were very surprised. Of course, we said yes,” he told USA Today, adding: “We are apolitical. We’re open to anyone coming. It’s great that he wants to come to our game.”

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/trump-plans-to-attend-world-series-game-at-truist-this-weekend/D5366GZGOJGQHKG246V5MFZNAI/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Maybe he's bring his new BFF

Herschel Walker? Neither one of them lives there.

[geardaddy]

2. Maybe he likes doing the racist "Tomahawk Chop"

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. This - he praises the Atlanta team for not changing their name

and has attacked a member of the family who own the Cleveland Guardians and is running for the GOP Ohio senatorial nomination:

Former President Trump took a shot at Ohio state Sen. Matt Dolan (R) on Monday — hours after he entered the race for the state’s open Senate seat — over the recent name change to Cleveland’s baseball team, which is owned by his father.

“Anybody that changes the name of the once storied Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be running for the United States Senate representing the Great People of Ohio,” Trump wrote in a statement sent by the Save America PAC.

The former president wrote that the Atlanta Braves — another MLB team — and the Florida State Seminoles — a college university mascot — have not changed their monikers, yet Cleveland decided to do so over concerns of sensitivity regarding Native Americans.

“Despite this, a man named Matt Dolan, the son of the owner of the team, said he is against Cancel Culture. Do those two things really work together?” Trump wrote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/573121-trump-takes-shot-at-new-gop-candidate-in-ohio-over-cleveland-nickname

(Of course, the Cleveland name change is not "cancel culture" in any definition - they cancelled no one and nothing. They changed a name of something they own. But Trump is too dumb to think that through, and his followers as well.)

[geardaddy]

35. Thanks for posting that info.

[Botany]

3. This will not end well for Trump. He lost Georgia.

[Casady1]

7. I disagree

I live in Atlanta and he is going into the area in metro Atlanta which is his biggest fanbase. He will be cheered and we will hear the Brandon cheer.

[Tommy Carcetti]

25. Unfortunately, the Braves abandoned the City of Atlanta for some plastic monstrosity in the suburbs

All as a not-so-transparent effort to appeal to a mostly-white fan base. There's not even a public transportation link from the stadium to the city, which seemed by design.

I used to like the Braves, but that move really soured me on the team.

[themaguffin]

26. Look, I hate the move & live minutes from the new ballpark, but it's very close to the city and also

it's not unique. Many teams play outside of city limits.

[Tommy Carcetti]

28. Actually, the Braves' stadium is the second furthest from the center of their home city.

Link to tweet

The only team further away is the Tampa Bay Rays, and that assumes Tampa as the home city, even though they play pretty close to the center of St. Pete, which is a fairly sizeable urban city of its own.

The next two teams--Yankees and Mets--still play in highly urbanized environments within their city.

[geardaddy]

37. The Twins play in downtown Minneapolis

And what is the asterisk for in that graphic?

[Casady1]

27. and many other people

me being one. As you know they did a big marketing survey to see where most of their fans are and it turns our it is Cobb County. I-285 and I-75 is the worst spot for traffic in Atlanta. I live in Gwinnett and I'll be damned if I am going across 285 to see a ballgame. There were plenty of ways to get to Turner field not so with Truist park. Face it Baseball players and the owners are the most republican of all sports. Fans are tied between Football and baseball as the most republican. He will be cheered at Truist. Glavine is going to Mar-a lago to support Herschel Walker and Smoltz is antivax.

[Initech]

45. Oh man I hope so!

[RamblingRose]

4. and they complained about politicizing baseball. He's no longer pResident and has no ties to Georgia

[Steelrolled]

6. I think the Atlanta Braves are best to just stay out of it.

If he wants to come, fine, if not, fine.

[jimfields33]

9. I agree. Why should he not go to a game? Big deal.

Tom next to the stadium may go to the game and no media coverage. Trump is a civilian. Nothing more.

[greenjar_01]

17. Just an ordinary civilian who calls up the league for tickets to the World Series

Ho hum tra la. "Hi, Major League Baseball. This is Donald from next to the stadium. I'd like tickets to the World Series, please, for me and my entourage."

[jimfields33]

29. Lol. Point taken.

[RamblingRose]

5. I guess he's Herschel Walker's date.

[Mz Pip]

40. That was my guess.

He wants the attention, too.

[MineralMan]

8. Don't Know; Don't Care.

[bluedigger]

10. If they are apolitical they should have directed him to the scalpers.

[SergeStorms]

32. Right. Buy a ticket like everyone else.

You know he's looking for a handout and will sit in the owner's box. Then he can lean out and wave to his adoring fans.

[RamblingRose]

41. "World Series sticker shock: $1,000-plus for standing-room-only tickets"

He'll use campaign funds to pay for the tickets.


https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/world-series-sticker-shock-1000-plus-for-standing-room-only-tickets/2QUXVEY4V5CEJKZHSXKYGM2LUU/

[eShirl]

11. because he wants to be booed on live national TV

[malaise]

13. To be arrested for attempting to overthrow the Georgia election results?

[Deuxcents]

14. Does he have to pay for the tickets?

Who pays for his security detail? Extra cop detail for traffic?

[Steelrolled]

16. I don't know, but presidents and ex-presidents show up at

baseball games now and then, so I imagine they have a system for it.

[MacKasey]

15. He can imagine that they are all cheering for him

[Steelrolled]

20. LOL. Trump loves attention and ratings, and

the common factor between people who love him and people who hate him is that they both can't get enough of him (even DU it seems). I don't know, but I imagine he is living his dream.

[RamblingRose]

18. The Braves should give Governor Kemp tickets to the same game & make them sit next to each other

[RamblingRose]

21. throw Stacey Abrams in the suite too & I'd watch that over the game

[spanone]

19. TeeVee face time.

[LiberalFighter]

22. If they were really apolitical he would only receive a regular ticket.

[frogmarch]

23. He thinks he'll get a standing ovation.

That's why he's going.

[FakeNoose]

38. He'll get boo'd on national TV

Why isn't he going to Houston? They're playing World Series games there too.

[BannonsLiver]

24. He's using sports to stay in the public eye and I assume, he thinks it will generate buzz

Don Jr and the one that eats glue will be at some barbaric UFC thing soon.

[sarcasmo]

30. TFG is craving attention.

[Kid Berwyn]

31. Arrest him.

“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump says, according to audio of the call. “There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/in-recorded-call-trump-pressures-georgia-official-to-find-votes-to-overturn-election-idUSKBN2980MG

[maxsolomon]

33. He smells free publicity and a national audience.

He doesn't give a flying fuck about baseball. He only cares about golf because he can schmooze and "make deals" on a course.

Will the broadcasters show his fat fucking traitor face on screen? Probably.

[East-A-Squared]

34. To make it all about him.

[budkin]

36. Will they let him on the loudspeaker to complain that he "won" Georgia?

I think he's gonna get his ass boo'ed again.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

39. Because he's a fucking attention whore

My apologies to whores by comparing them to the orange blob.

[Initech]

44. Attention whores are the worst kind of whores!

[KentuckyWoman]

42. he's trying to use a winning team as a prop.

and hog the attention.

Because 3 yr olds are more mature than TFG

[Dorian Gray]

43. Oh cool!

Hey Braves Chief Executive Terry McGuirk, I'd love to get some tickets to a world series game. Since you're cool with anybody coming, thought you'd love to send some tickets my way. kthanxbye