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"I just can't do it": Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle declines White House invitation
cbsnews.com ^ | 11/2/19 | Sophie Lewis

Posted on 11/02/2019 1:11:03 PM PDT by a little elbow grease

The Washington Nationals will head to the White House Monday to meet with President Trump following the team's historic World Series victory. But pitcher Sean Doolittle won't be going.

"There's a lot of things, policies that I disagree with, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and widening the divide in this country," Doolittle said in an interview with The Washington Post.

"At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can't do it," Doolittle said. "I just can't do it."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: a little elbow grease
Ah, the principled intellectual speaks out

. What it comes down to, he just doesn't think Donald J. Trump acts Presidential enough.

41 posted on 11/02/2019 1:35:00 PM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Pussy. His wife wouldn’t let him


42 posted on 11/02/2019 1:35:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: a little elbow grease
"I just can't do it"

There is no "I" in TEAM.
43 posted on 11/02/2019 1:35:55 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: a little elbow grease
widening the divide in this country,

Leftard marxists/postmodernists are collectivists. They like to divide the country into opposing groups, because their goal is to start group warfare.

44 posted on 11/02/2019 1:36:26 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

He is a Useful Idiot.

The biggest idiot of all......that dumb shyte is too stupid to realize it’s not POTUS fault but the Demonrat Socialists that have kept this country in upheaval since the President won that’s the problem?? He’s a stain on that ball team. He’s too stupid to realize what he’s doing is only making him out to be the biggest dumbarse ever!!


45 posted on 11/02/2019 1:37:12 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

He is a Useful Idiot.

The biggest idiot of all......that dumb shyte is too stupid to realize it’s not POTUS fault but the Demonrat Socialists that have kept this country in upheaval since the President won that’s the problem?? He’s a stain on that ball team. He’s too stupid to realize what he’s doing is only making him out to be the biggest dumbarse ever!!


46 posted on 11/02/2019 1:37:13 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: a little elbow grease

And who now is being divisive? What a hypocrite. Typical liberal.


47 posted on 11/02/2019 1:38:37 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: a little elbow grease

NOBODY REALLY CARES. I know I don’t. We should all simply ignore such “virtue signalers”.


48 posted on 11/02/2019 1:39:01 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Jim 0216; a fool in paradise; JonPreston; Sarah Barracuda; unread; Rastus; LS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/sean-doolittle-and-eireann-dolan-may-be-baseballs-most-woke-couple/2018/03/27/646b32ca-2dda-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html
Sean Doolittle and Eireann Dolan may be baseball’s most ‘woke’ couple

(snip) —— WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sean Doolittle and Eireann Dolan almost wore nearly identical shoes to a photo shoot last week. Most major league players don’t argue with their wife over who gets to wear Birkenstocks that day. Most major league players wouldn’t have their local paper requesting a photo shoot to accompany a story about their work with Syrian refugees or LGBT pride night or an op-ed they wrote about veterans’ issues. Doolittle and Dolan are not most major league couples.

(BELATED BARF ALERT)


49 posted on 11/02/2019 1:39:20 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Enten
"For Dolan (his wife), a writer and graduate student studying religion at Fordham University, that style also includes clear support for the Black Lives Matter movement, increased gun control and other political issues."

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LOL ... she's a Black Lives Matter follower. Lord.

50 posted on 11/02/2019 1:43:01 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: bankwalker

ROFL!


51 posted on 11/02/2019 1:43:31 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

First pitcher documented to have an IQ lower than his ERA.


52 posted on 11/02/2019 1:43:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: rktman

Thanks!


53 posted on 11/02/2019 1:45:18 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

I’ve written this before. I was traveling from Atlanta to New York on a Delta Air Lines aircraft, after POTUS, Jimmy Carter has finished his POTUS term, The flight attendant got on the PA system and announced that Ex-POTUS, Jimmy Carter was on this flight and, he had requested to walk through the cabin and greet and say hello to passengers traveling with him, before the aircraft took off for JFK Airport in NYC.

I hated Jimmy Carter....politically...but when he came down the aisle shaking hands, I remembered what my father told me when I was a young lad. He had said to my brother and I, that if we ever came in contact with someone like a POTUS.....we should be polite and treat them with respect and dignity, even if we disagreed with them.

So...when POTUS Carter came to my aislw I looked him straight in the eye and spoke with authority...saying God Bless You Mr.President...and the POTUS responded with: God bless you...son!!!

Nothing more needs to be said!!! I am happy that the Nationals are headed to the White House. For one...it is the right thing to do and, our current POTUS was once quite the ballplayer himself...he knows the game inside and outside. I rooted for the ASTROs...but...the team (the Nationals) with heart & purpose won!!!

Congratulations, World Champions of Baseball, Washington Nationals. And as to your White House visit...the entire country will love you for doing the right thing!!!


54 posted on 11/02/2019 1:47:05 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Just a few more swings and a few misses to the mix. LOL!


55 posted on 11/02/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a little elbow grease

Screw him.


56 posted on 11/02/2019 1:49:02 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: rktman
"In June 2015, when the Oakland Athletics Pride Night received backlash from some fans for the team's support of LGBT rights, Doolittle and then-girlfriend Eireann Dolan bought hundreds of game tickets, which they donated to local LGBT groups, and raised an additional $40,000 in donations."

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..... what a guy.

/s

57 posted on 11/02/2019 1:49:36 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: be-baw

So if the Nats don’t pick up his option for an additional year, he can claim reprisal for his views and the media will bury him in leftist love.


58 posted on 11/02/2019 1:50:00 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: a little elbow grease

What a jerk! And he’s a lousy pitcher, too.


59 posted on 11/02/2019 1:50:41 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: a little elbow grease

This guy has no class.


60 posted on 11/02/2019 1:52:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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