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Box Scores Show Trump Lied His Ass Off About Being a High School Baseball Legend

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  1. No Worries

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    Trump was well below the Mendoza Line and well below his weight.

    Box Scores Show Trump Lied His Ass Off About Being a High School Baseball Legend

    Here’s a shock—President Trump, who has repeatedly boasted about how great he was at baseball in high school and how he could totally have gone pro if he’d wanted to, actually pretty much sucked at it. Slate has managed to unearth nine box scores from Trump’s time at New York Military Academy, which showed a four-for-29 batting record in his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons, with three runs batted in and a single run scored. Trump’s batting average in the nine games Slate found box scores for stood at a disappointing .138. Slate asked The Athletic’s Keith Law, a senior baseball writer, if Trump’s numbers sounded like those of someone who could have gone pro. “You don’t hit .138 for some podunk, cold-weather high school playing the worst competition you could possibly imagine,” Law said. “It’s absolutely laughable. He hit .138—he couldn’t ****ing hit, that’s pretty clear.”
     
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  2. Andre0087

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    Trump lied? No way!
     
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  3. deb4rockets

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    Defining a pathological liar
    A pathological liar is someone who lies compulsively. While there appears to be many possible causes for pathological lying, it’s not yet entirely understood why someone would lie this way.

    Some lies seem to be told in order to make the pathological liar appear the hero, or to gain acceptance or sympathy, while there’s seemingly nothing to be gained from other lies.

    This description should be branded on Trump's forehead!
     
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    The foxy spin:
    You are fake news again! Many great mlb players have had bad hitting averages,
    Roger Clemens. .173
    Roy Oswalt . 154
    Justin Verlander .100

    Are you saying those are not great players?
    Be grateful, Trump could have played professional basbeball in any era, 1897 or 2020! Hater.
     
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    100 bucks says if he’s questioned about this he claims he was a pitcher throwing 95 at 15.
     
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  6. SamFisher

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    I really hope the fact that he's been exposed here gets through his protective bubble. Like the Lincoln Project should do an ad here. It needs to go on Twitter. Some real director should get involved in it.

    This could be the thing - and the mass death, misery, and destruction due to his incompetence and narcissism - that incapacitates him to the level where his handlers finally invoke the 25th Amendment.
     
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    "Lots of people tell me I could have gone pro ..great genes.. even mike lindell was amazed"
     
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  8. superfob

    superfob Mommy WOW! I'm a Big Kid now.

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    I heard he scored four touchdowns in a single game.
     
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    My favorite part is the lie about having a pro tryout with Willie McCovey, which led to him giving up baseball...the same Willie McCovey who was already playing for the Giants and is 8 years older than Trump.

    To borrow a quote: "The Giants took a look at them both…McCovey, the 6’2", lean lefthanded power hitter from Mobile, Alabama, and Trump, the 9-year old phenom from Queens. It was a bold gamble by the Giants, and they were roundly booed by fans for their signing McCovey."
     
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    Trump was better than Bo.
     
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    DAMN YOU PEOPLE!

    Do you have any idea how hard it is to play baseball with bone spurs?

    Trump is practically superhuman. No one has ever seen anything like it!
     
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    Uncle Rico...lol
     
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  13. SamFisher

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    LOL, that was my favorite too. I personally renounced basketball when the Knicks drafted Patrick Ewing #1 in 1985. I was sitting there in elementrary school, playing in the YMCA league, and first I was angry, when they took him instead of me.

    Then I realized, well, maybe my 4 foot whatever 60 lb self is not going to be able to handle this guy in the post, so it's time to go in a different direction. After which I became one of the most successful individuals of all time. That's what they say.
     
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    Never heard of his boasting about baseball, but not surprised. They should find the other kids in the boxscore and interview them about how they remember Trump the athlete.
     
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  15. SamFisher

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    The original long form investigation on this is a must read. It's too bad they just handed out the Pulitzer's.

    https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/donald-trump-baseball-high-school-nyma.html

    Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?
    The president has long claimed he could have gone pro. We looked into it.

    tl;dr: he was average to sucked according to all evidence and made everything up
     
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    I like the way he is so athletic yet cant go to military because of bone spurs
     
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    U aint lyin' you aint tryin'
    -Art of Dealin Wit Chumps
     
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    How many games did he play? Nine or is that just a small sample size meant to manipulate the average?
     
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    Actually athletics can cause bone spurs...
     
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  20. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Those were the only 9 box scores the writer could find in his research.

    The most telling lie is Trump saying he was at a try out with Willie McCovey since Willie is 8 years older and had been in the majors for 5 years when this supposed try out would have occurred.
     
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