Let’s see how Storing the baseball junkie spins this one.
Apparently, Donald Trump, a grown-ass man who lives in the White House and can launch nukes at will, got so jealous of the hype around Dr. Anthony Fauci throwing out the first pitch for the Washington Nationals last week that he spontaneously announced that he would be throwing out the first pitch for the Yankees. So there!
When the Washington Nationals announced that Fauci would be throwing out the first pitch at Thursday's season opener against the Yankees, it was widely seen as a snub of the president, who was booed by the team's fans last year when he attended the World Series. So Trump took revenge by getting rid of fans entirely with his spectacularly bungled coronavirus response. And even that wasn't enough for President Counterpuncher.
"Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees," Trump said on Thursday as Fauci was warming up. "And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I'm doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium."
And by "I think I'm doing that," he meant "I hate sharing the limelight, so I'm going to bigfoot Fauci's moment by making spombleprofglidnoctobuns up again." Both the White House and Yankees organization were taken completely by surprise, since no invitation had ever been discussed.