{"id":14651,"date":"2016-11-10T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2016-11-10T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:54:18","slug":"chicago-cubs-may-visit-white-house-obama-leaves-office-replaced-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/chicago-cubs-may-visit-white-house-obama-leaves-office-replaced-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs may visit White House before Obama leaves office and is replaced by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Chicago Cubs may visit White House before Obama leaves office and is replaced by Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Chicago Cubs may visit White House before Obama leaves office and is replaced by Trump:-<\/strong> The Chicago Cubs can\u2019t decide on whose White House they will be celebrating their World Series title in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In light of Tuesday\u2019s night shocking election results that left GOP nominee Donald Trump as president-elect, Theo Epstein, the team\u2019s president of baseball operations who publicly donated and supported Hillary Clinton, said he is \u201cstill processing\u201d the result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Obama, a South Side-native and noted White Sox fan, congratulated Chicago last week after they won Game 7 of the World Series, asking \u201cWant to come to the White House before I leave?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI know after he tweeted that out \u2013 and that was well before the election \u2013 there was a lot of interest from our players in taking him up on that invitation,\u201d Epstein said. \u201cThere was some momentum for it. So we\u2019ll see. Nothing has been finalized. But we\u2019ll see where it goes. It would be nice given his Chicago ties.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Unlike Epstein, Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta didn\u2019t need time to process much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ricketts family, who own the Cubs, have political ties, which Trump spoke about prior to election night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In March, Trump said the Cubs were run poorly and called out the family for spending money on pro-Clinton ads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI\u2019ll start taking ads telling them all what a rotten job they\u2019re doing with the Chicago Cubs,\u201d he said in March. \u201cI mean, they are spending on me&#8230; I\u2019ll start doing ads about their baseball team. That it\u2019s not properly run or that they haven\u2019t done a good job in the brokerage business lately.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After those comments, the Ricketts switched sides and financially helped the GOP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/chicago-cubs-visit-white-house-obama-leaves-article-1.2866719<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/chicago-cubs-may-visit-white-house-obama-leaves-office-replaced-trump.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs may visit White House before Obama leaves office and is replaced by Trump Chicago Cubs may visit White House before Obama leaves office and is replaced by Trump:- The Chicago Cubs can\u2019t decide on whose White House they will be celebrating their World Series title in. 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