Clemens is seen as a typical white male Republican; hypocritical on family values issues, like Gingrich.
DiMaggio was a old school.
Bill Clinton is seen as the baby-boomer irresponsible draft dodger than the Silent and Greatest generations did not like and that millennials mock as “Ok Boomer”.
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Joltin Joe was a old school, all right. A really old school.
What other college games has he attended? How did he get invited to this one?
Any chance that this was just a chance to exclude Jeff Sessions from the Presidential Box?
He was a old school white man. That is the truth.
A lot of them don’t like the Clintons. Period.
Most of the white college athletes, some of them are Republican-leaning as well.
Many NASCAR fans are white. They drink American beers and vote Republican.
Hillary Clinton is seen as a wife of the ex-president Bill Clinton, a Democrat. Most white Republicans did not vote for the Clintons.
NBA players are often black, while professional golfers are usually white. A knowing exception to this is Tiger Woods, a very famous golfer and a friend of the Republican US President Donald Trump, who is a white man.
Why is that?
NBA players tend to be liberal. But I wonder if some of the white NBA players tend to be more liberal like their black colleagues. Whenever a Republican is in office, the NBA teams always opt out of going. Whenever a Democratic president is in office, some white NHL or MLB players opt out.
Have you ever noticed how white people drive like this…
On this side of the pond, when George Osborne (who was then the Tory Chancellor) attended the Paralympics event I was at, he was loudly booed. Prince Edward was cheered at the same session probably mainly because people wanted to show they weren’t just booing everyone. Jeremy Hunt (then health secretary) and Theresa May were also booed at the paralympics, and David Cameron was heckled at one of the Olympics ceremonies he attended.
The Tory govt had brought in a lot of cuts that disproportionately affected disabled people so it wasn’t surprising they were booed at the Paralympics.
Same goes for sports where the participants and fans are more likely to be in groups that don’t support that particular politician or their party.
What’s surprising is Boris Johnson being booed at a cricket match in 2018. Cricket is mostly small-c conservative and the crowds are not generally rowdy.
And of course their political careers weren’t affected in the slightest bit.
Um, is he really seen as more of a draft dodger than Trump? That must take some cognitive dissonance. Pretty sure millennials would say OK boomer to Trump too.
Pro athletes are vastly more apt to be republicans, even black ones. Got to learn to live with that. We don’t need them to think very deeply, and maybe they will forget to vote.
Roger Clemens retired before Barack Obama was President, and won his second and last World Series when CLINTON was President, so maybe you meant Clinton?
They had a World Series in 2019?
Huh.
Can’t see the point, when the Dodgers don’t win the NL pennant, but you do you. MLB.
Errr, what? The stereotypical cricket fan is either a working class northerner or an Asian, neither group is likely to be a fan of Boris.
And the National front used to appear at matches and give a hard time to Black and Asian players.
The difference was that at the Cricket, the police was likely to actually take action.