In a mystifying development, people who apparently are baseball fans starved for the game’s return are joining a #BoycottMLB movement on Twitter. They’ve waited months for the return of the game they love, and now that it’s almost here, they want to boycott it.

1. Opinion: #BoycottMLB brigade is not the kind of fans
baseball wants
Christine Brennan, USA TODAY 14 hrs ago    
In a mystifying development, people who apparently are baseball fans starved for the game’s return are
joining a #BoycottMLB movement on Twitter. They’ve waited months for the return of the game they love,
and now that it’s almost here, they want to boycott it.
Why would people who love baseball do such a thing? Apparently, some of them are angry that Dr.
Anthony Fauci is throwing out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ home opener Thursday evening.
Many others are unhappy that a few San Francisco Giants took a knee Monday during the playing of the
national anthem.
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2. © Ben Margot, AP San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler kneels during the national anthem prior to an exhibition game against the Oakland Athletics.
These people might call themselves baseball fans, but they really are little more than ideologues. They don’t
like science, aren’t big fans of knowledge and despise the Black Lives Matter movement – or some
combination of the three.
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President Donald Trump, never one to be left on the sidelines when there is trouble afoot, didn’t personally
join the #BoycottMLB brigade but did add his own special brand of fuel to the fire:
“Looking forward to live sports, but any time I witness a player kneeling during the National Anthem, a sign
of great disrespect for our Country and our Flag, the game is over for me!”
A question: Isn’t this the man who defends the Confederate flag and is fighting to keep U.S. military bases
named for traitors who fought against this country?
A prediction: Trump is not going to be watching many sporting events this summer and fall.
If you have lived through the last eight weeks in America, how could you possibly be surprised by the
Giants’ peaceful protests? Wherever sports have been played since the Memorial Day death of George
Floyd, in the United States and abroad, athletes have taken a knee, so of course baseball players are going
to kneel.
Once the NBA and WNBA get started, kneeling will be commonplace, assuming the anthem is played
beforehand. And if high school, college and pro football is played this fall, well, let’s just say Trump is not
going to be happy.
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The urge from Trump and the Twitterverse to hold onto these last vestiges of another time – a whiter, sexist,
intolerant time – has been rebuffed by people who, interestingly enough, know a bit about fan behavior,
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