pitcher is trying to move the batter off the batter box out of the strike zone, rather. go ahead and explain that metaphor for how it applies to what we re seeing so far, howard. what spicer is saying the press talks a lot about holding president trump accountable. he says we ll hold you accountable when you get something wrong and we ll push back hard. president trump has a twitter account and knows how to use it. some of this is built up resentment from the campaign where the press wrote off candidate donald trump and they feel it. he had a good day yesterday. he met with labor leaders, bipartisan leadership on the hill but repeated the business about millions voted illegally in the election. something he can t prove. the new york times puts up headlines it s a lie, falsehood.
steadily fallen. last year s series was the lowest rated series ever. that s the chart on the right. andrew mccutchen says the sport is dying in economically challenging communities. he laments few kids idolize baseball players the way he once did. major league baseball teams know it has problems keeping people s attention. they instituted new rules including a batter keep one foot in the batter box. with young people and people of color increasingly tuning out, many say it has to do more if they want to reclaim the mantle of america s past time. joining me to discuss this chicago tribune editor clarence paige and from the games tonight richard justice, correspondent for mlb.com. richard, i ll start with you. how much sense of panic is there inside of mlb about all of the trends we have been talking about? well it s the first thing on
the president panders to extreme left wing of batter box. on the other end msnbc had a different take. the president pitches no-hitter. and then cnn went a different way altogether. it was equal opportunity bashing but a lot of laughs held all around. what was your favorite part? well n the headlines he showed that we didn t show was the one about july 3, 1776, you know, independence dead. but if you notice, if you looked who the story was written by, helen thomas, the longest serving white house correspondent which was pretty biting and it rippled through the hall as people focused in on it. i wonder why helen thomas left? what did we do to scare her away? one of the funniest jokes was about the jonas brothers who were all around washington and mothers were busy taking
news on the subject, willie, my favorite subject, his first pitch. roll it. whoo! whee! roll it. a few weeks ago i was able to throw out the first pitch at the nationals game. and i don t know if you saw it but i threw it a little high, a little outside. this is how fox news covered it. the president panders to extreme left wing of batter box. on the other end msnbc had a different take. the president pitches no-hitter. and then cnn went a different way altogether. i was just asking how can you get a volcano in iceland? isn t it too when you think of a volcano, you think of, like, hawaii, and long words. you don t think of iceland. you think it s too cold to have a volcano there. i guess that s why they re the most trusted name in news.
together and obviously had a hard fought battle and you learn certainly at the national level politics isn t easy. you know, this year i have experienced my share of disappointments. for example, i had my heart set on the nobel prize for physics. but hey, you can t win em all. speaking of undeserved honors, a few weeks ago, i was able to throw out the first pitch at the nationals game. and i don t know if you saw it, but i threw it a little high and a little outside. this is how fox news covered it. president panders to extreme left wing of batter box.