Trump knocks Dodgers' pitching change: 'Big mistake!'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY AVERY ANAPOL - 10/28/18 07:33 AM EDT

President Trump late Saturday night fired off a tweet commenting on World Series Game 4, saying it was a "big mistake" for the Los Angeles Dodgers to pull pitcher Rich Hill.

Link to tweet

Social media users criticized the timing of Trump’s tweet, which came hours after at least 11 people were killed in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

“I think you meant to say: I am having a real difficult time sleeping tonight,” wrote one user.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a frequent critic of Trump, tweeted: “Is tonight when [Trump] became our President? Or was it when he said ‘there are some very fine people on both sides’ at the white nationalist mob event in Charlottesville?”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413505-trump-comments-on-baseball-game

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And conversely if the Dodgers finished the game with Rich Hill and did worse,

Trump would have criticized THAT decision.

And BTW, 11 Jews died less than 12 hours before the game by way of assassination. Doesn't have Trump have higher priorities than being a wannabe baseball manager?

[Ohiogal]

2. Ho hum, just another day for the Dump bubble

.... when's my tee time, John Kelly? ........... and go fetch my umbrella off the tarmac.

[Achilleaze]

3. THE republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief* spouting advice for other dodger losers

Sad.


* aka Comrade Dirty Donny (R)

[INdemo]

6. Could you emagine Trump participating in sports or going thu boot camp?

He would have been the guy that could never get over a low hurdle let alone the obstacle course..
Could you see him going up the rope climb wall..? The drill Sgt. would have been screaming at him all the time.

[Cold War Spook]

11. Your post reminds me of Vincent D'Onofrio (Pvt Pyle) in Full Metal Jacket.

Same ending would be nice. I know that we would then have Pence but at least he is not crazy.

[INdemo]

12. Yep I was thinking about that when I was drafting my post Your comment was

right on ...LOL

[The Wizard]

4. And now he's promoted himself

to world's foremost baseball authority. Of course he has no information to support his speculation other than what his thought disordered mind can conjure.

[AKing]

5. 20/20 Hindsight...0/0 Foresight

[gibraltar72]

7. Well he was the best baseball player in New York after all.

[KayF]

8. this is his way of saying

he's just clarifying that the concern he expressed earlier, those were just things they made him say

[Maxheader]

9. Dementia boy never heard of planning ahead...

Like keeping a pitcher fresh for later games, by not working
them into later innings

[oberliner]

15. Later games?

[Racerdog1]

10. Like this fat fucking orange turd

Knows anything about baseball. Bone spurs, remember. Fat tub of shit.

[BlueStater]

17. He apparently was a talented pitcher when he was young and actually in shape.

But I don't know if I believe that, considering nearly everything about the bastard is a damn lie.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Who asked you, Trump

If you can't say anything nice, just shut the fuck up. We're tired of your whiny-ass bullshit.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. In a World Series

you rarely let the starter go 9 innings. He might be needed in Game 5,6 or 7. You trust your bullpen to get the job done.

There are certain accepted ways of doing things, no matter how much sense they don't make to an airhead. In hockey, for example. You're into triple overtime. All the players are tired. Tired players make mistakes that cost games. The only two rested players in the building are the backup goalies. Yet the starters are never pulled for fatigue. It would be bad karma, almost start second guessing before the game was decided.

[Cicada]

16. A lot of moneybal type statistical reasoning looks dumb to fans

The odds you will give up runs increases after so many pitches. How well you did in past innings isn’t what matters. How well you are likely to do now is what matters. The late great Amos Tversky, so fucking smart they gave his partner Daniel Kahneman the Nobel prize after Amos died, taught us that people falsely believe trends are very likely to continue. In reality a lot of streaks are just accidental. The coin comes up heads ten times in a row does not mean eleven is likely. That’s Donald Chumps error here.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Trump thinks he is a bigly baseball coach too, along with future Nobelist & Mt Rushmore item. . . nt

[Mr.Bill]

19. Add Baseball

to the list of things Trump knows nothing about.

[Calista241]

20. I think it's ridiculous we're disparaging him being a baseball fan and making a comment about

the World Series.

Obama used to have an entire show on ESPN called "Barakatology" where he would pick a bracket for NCAA March Madness. It was kind of a huge deal, and people used to go around saying they beat Obama's bracket or got their asses kicked.

There are plenty of other things to pissed off about, and focusing on this while we're trying to get independents to vote for us doesn't look good IMO.

[Chitown Kev]

21. If this were any other president at any other time in history

this would be an OK tweet...