President Donald Trump hosted the 2024 World Series champions — the Los Angeles Dodgers — at the White House on Monday, but as he stood to give remarks, he couldn&#8217;t resist taking potshots at a few unnamed U.S. Senators who were on hand for the event.
&#8220;I’m thrilled to welcome to the White House very special people&#8230; very talented people,&#8221; Trump said of the California Major League Baseball team.
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President Trump congratulates the 2024 World Series Champion, the LA <a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dodgers</a>, on a legendary season.⚾️
“I’m thrilled to welcome to the White House very special people&#8230; very talented people.” <a href="https://t.co/eXBAfZYKp9">pic.twitter.com/eXBAfZYKp9</a>
&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1909300018600616243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump smiled as he jabbed at the senators who were present, saying, &#8220;Others — we have a couple of senators here. I just don‘t particularly like them, so I won&#8217;t be introducing them!&#8221;
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🤣 PRESIDENT TRUMP: &quot;We have a couple of senators here. I just don‘t particularly like them, so I won&#39;t be introducing them!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6ju1bnQmQi">pic.twitter.com/6ju1bnQmQi</a>
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Trump carried on with his remarks after a brief pause as the audience laughed, saying, &#8220;Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team —&#8221;
Loud laughter broke out again, and when it died down, the president commented, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think it was that big a deal, actually &#8230; Washington.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the course of this amazing season,&#8221; Trump began again. &#8220;The members of this team &#8230;&#8221;
Later on, Trump asked Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts whether star player — and National League MVP — Shohei Ohtani was &#8220;good.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s like a movie star,&#8221; Trump said, laying out a list of Ohtani&#8217;s accomplishments and record-breaking statistics. &#8220;He&#8217;s got a good future, I&#8217;m telling you &#8230; Is he good?&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s only getting better,&#8221; was Roberts&#8217; reply.
&#8220;That&#8217;s scary for a lot of people,&#8221; Trump quipped.
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President Trump on Shohei Ohtani: &quot;Is he good?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dodgers</a> Manager Dave Roberts: &quot;Only getting better.&quot;
Trump: &quot;That&#39;s scary for a lot of people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FjGxx7p1hj">pic.twitter.com/FjGxx7p1hj</a>
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During the ceremony, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw presented President Trump with a Los Angeles jersey emblazoned with the Trump&#8217;s name and the number 47.
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw presents President Donald J. Trump with a 47 jersey. ⚾️ <a href="https://t.co/dqOM7bfamy">pic.twitter.com/dqOM7bfamy</a>
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&#8220;Mr. President, we have a gift for you as well,&#8221; he said, reaching for the jersey. After he handed it over, Trump held it up so that the crowd could see.
Following the team event, Trump even invited Ohtani to visit the Oval Office. &#8220;It’s a great honor, you’re an amazing athlete and person,&#8221; he told the star player.
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Happening now behind the scenes, President Donald Trump welcomes Los Angeles <a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dodgers</a> Shohei Ohtani to the Oval Office…
POTUS: “It’s a great honor, you’re an amazing athlete and person…” <a href="https://t.co/LUUCspxFgu">pic.twitter.com/LUUCspxFgu</a>
&mdash; Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) <a href="https://twitter.com/Scavino47/status/1909282785355088306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump Introduces 2024 Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Can’t Resist Throwing A Few Barbs

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Series</a> scored its highest ratings a Game 5 has seen in years when the Los Angeles Dodgers won the championship 7-6 against the New York Yankees.
On Wednesday night, the Dodgers-Yankees final game averaged 18.6 million viewers across all Fox Sports platforms, including the broadcast network, Fox Deportes, and streaming services, with the main broadcast network having an audience of <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/world-series-2024-tv-ratings-best-7-years-1236050038/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18.15 million</a> people, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Dodgers&#8217; victory also ended up being a seven-year high for the game since 2017, when the Houston Astros had a seven game victory over the Dodgers with an average audience of 18.93 million.
As a whole, the entire series gave Major League Baseball its fourth largest audience baseball has seen since 2010, trailing only behind the 2016 series with nearly 23 million viewers, 2017&#8217;s 18.93 million viewers, and 2011’s 16.5 million viewers. All three of those series went a full seven games.
This year&#8217;s series averaged 15.81 million viewers over the entire five nights of nail-bitting action on the field, with the first three games in Los Angeles and later to New York as the Dodgers led the series 3-0. However, it was the Yankees who scored a massive win in the fourth game, 11-4, to take it to a fifth game where the Dodgers scored a victory on Wednesday night.
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The year&#8217;s series ended up being a huge draw for viewers in Japan, and it was the first time ever that viewership was larger there than in the United States, driven largely by Japanese-born Dodgers pitcher/designated star hitter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greatest-day-in-baseball-history-dodgers-star-sets-new-mlb-milestone">Shohei Ohtani</a>, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-series-ratings-soar-in-japan-thanks-to-ohtani">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
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The 2024 World Series goes in the books as the most watched Fall Classic since 2017 <a href="https://t.co/Xfxqyygn6M">https://t.co/Xfxqyygn6M</a>
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1852472020841193851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
The ratings for the second game of the series between LA and NY scored 15.9 million viewers in Japan, while the viewership in the U.S. fell to 13.8 million, making it the second biggest TV market for the series, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shohei-ohtani-lifts-world-series-tv-ratings-japan-record-1236047222/">data</a> from the Major League Baseball and Fox Corp’s sports division, THR noted.
Due to the 16-hour time difference, the first two games of the World Series, which were held in Los Angeles, aired in Japan on Saturday morning and Sunday morning. After game one, the Dodgers came away with a 6-3 victory over the NY team and LA also scored a 4-2 victory in game two.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-series-ratings-soar-in-japan-thanks-to-ohtani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Series Ratings Soar In Japan Thanks To Ohtani</a>

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Several people were arrested in Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series on Wednesday for the eighth time in franchise history.
Following the win, crowds took to the streets, with some becoming violent and looting stores, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7.com/post/several-arrests-made-after-violence-looting-breaks-los-angeles-following-dodgers-world-series-win/15492082/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Six people were arrested after a crowd broke into a Nike store downtown and stole merchandise. A total of 12 people were arrested during the night.
There was also video of people throwing objects at police officers after they were told to leave an area, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dodgers-world-series-crowds-bus-burned-arrests-a42e1c2b4a069cb6cf3c92572000ecbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Officer Drake Madison told the AP that people were arrested for failing to disperse, receiving stolen property, and commercial burglary.
Just after midnight, a “hostile crowd”  surrounded a city bus. Metro officials told ABC that the bus driver and five passengers on board were able to evacuate before the bus was set on fire.
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Fireworks set the bus on fire. <a href="https://t.co/FDq5sqhtc7">pic.twitter.com/FDq5sqhtc7</a>
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&#8220;Metro is disappointed and angered by the senseless act of vandalism on one of our buses following the Dodgers World Series Win earlier this evening,&#8221; the agency told the outlet in a statement.
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Even though a bus was set on fire, no arrests were made in that incident.
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Several streets were also taken over downtown, forcing police to use less-lethal munitions to control the crowds that became hostile and violent, Madison told the AP. Madison added that over the next couple of days, police will try to identify who was responsible for additional crimes.
The Dodgers will hold a parade on Friday to celebrate their win over the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-dodgers-world-series-parade-b50eef167a230b92b29ae725f69f2236" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The parade will be followed by a celebration at Dodger Stadium, but because of the timing of the events and inevitable downtown traffic, fans won’t be able to attend both events.
The World Series began on a high note, with Freddie Freeman hitting a grand slam in Game 1 to give the Dodgers their first of three straight wins in the series. The Yankees won Game 4, but the Dodgers came back to clinch the series in Game 5. Freeman was named the series’ Most Valuable Player.
The series was not without controversy, however. During Game 4, Yankees fans were ejected from the game for interfering with a catch made by Dodgers star Mookie Betts. Betts caught a foul ball hit by Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres, but a fan reached over the wall and tried to pry the ball out of Betts’ glove, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-yankees-fans-pry-ball-from-mookie-betts-glove-during-game-4-of-world-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Another Yankees fan then pulled on Betts’ arm, causing him to drop the ball.

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-yankees">New York Yankees</a> fans were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night after interfering with a catch made by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> star Mookie Betts. 
The incident occurred during the first inning when Betts ran toward the right-field wall to catch a foul hit by Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres. Betts caught the ball in foul territory, but then video footage showed a fan reaching over the wall and grabbing Betts&#8217; glove. Another spectator pulled on Betts&#8217; arm at the same time, causing the ball to pop loose. An umpire ruled that Torres was out due to fan interference.
Video footage of the incident immediately began circulating on social media, prompting outraged reactions. 
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&quot;Well, A for effort.&quot;
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Former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz, now a FOX Sports broadcaster, said the fan “won’t be watching the game much longer.”
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Video footage showed both fans being escorted out of the stadium. On their way out, the men exchanged high-fives with other Yankees fans, and one of them told The Athletic reporter Rustin Dodd that the fan was a “hero … it’s a championship game.” 
The ejected fan was identified by ESPN as a Yankees season-ticket holder who said he had prepared for that situation in advance. “We always joke about the ball in our area,” the fan said after the game, per the outlet. “We’re not going to go out of our way to attack. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up. Someone defends, someone knocks the ball. We talk about it. We’re willing to do this.”
Security reportedly told the two men they were not permitted to come back for Game 5 on Wednesday.
Betts did not have much to say about what happened, responding to teammate Tommy Edman calling the behavior “unacceptable” by saying, “We lost, that’s what I’m focused on.” 
The Yankees won Game 4 on Tuesday with a final score of 11-4. They trail the Dodgers three games to one in the best-of-seven series. The Yankees are seeking their 28th World Series title, which would be their first since 2009. The Dodgers are hoping for their first World Series ring since winning the series in 2020. The team has won seven World Series titles in franchise history.

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For the first time ever, the audience for the World Series in Japan was larger than in the United States, driven largely by Japanese-born Dodgers&#8217; pitcher/designated star hitter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greatest-day-in-baseball-history-dodgers-star-sets-new-mlb-milestone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shohei Ohtani</a>.
The ratings for the second game of the series between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees scored 15.9 million viewers in Japan, while the viewership in the U.S. fell to 13.8 million, making it the second biggest TV market for the series, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shohei-ohtani-lifts-world-series-tv-ratings-japan-record-1236047222/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Major League Baseball and Fox Corp’s sports division, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
Due to the 16-hour time difference, the first two games of the World Series, which were held in Los Angeles, aired in Japan on Saturday morning and Sunday morning. After game one, the Dodgers came away with a 6-3 victory over the NY team and LA also scored a 4-2 victory in game two.
Despite the lower ratings than Japan, the World Series has scored Fox Sports the biggest ratings the World Series has had since 2017, THR noted.
The ratings for the first two games in the coveted age demographic of ages 18-34 were also up 93 percent, according to Nielsen.
And according to the league, World Series engagement has never been higher, with 345 million views on social media and 25 million engagements.
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Saturday&#8217;s Game Two of the World Series drew 15.9 million average viewers in Japan, the most ever for a postseason Major League Baseball game in the country, the league said on Monday. <a href="https://t.co/abbtBYyNM4">https://t.co/abbtBYyNM4</a>
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1851097267932979580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
The ratings for game three in Los Angeles of the series drew another 13.6 million views across all its platforms on Fox, Fox Deportes, and Fox Sports, making it the most watched World Series game three since 2018, when 13.3 million viewers watched the Dodgers beat the Red Sox 3-2, the outlet noted.
On the Fox network alone, the Dodgers&#8217; 4-2 victory over the Yankees drew 13.2 million viewers, the Wrap noted.
The audience was also 63% bigger than the game two series last year between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks, which had an audience of 8.13 million, the Wrap noted.
Coming out of game three, the Dodgers are leading the series 3-0. The series will now shift to New York for games 3-5 where the Yankees must come away with the victory if they want a shot at winning the championship, or the Dodgers will go home the victors.
Game four of the series takes place Tuesday night in New York.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greatest-day-in-baseball-history-dodgers-star-sets-new-mlb-milestone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Greatest Day In Baseball History’: Dodgers Star Sets New MLB Milestone</a>

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World Series Ratings Soar In Japan Thanks To Ohtani

Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani had a day for the history books on Thursday against the Miami Marlins, batting a remarkable 6-for-6 and becoming the first player in the majors to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season.
Ohtani&#8217;s perfect batting performance began with an RBI single in the first inning and a two-RBI double in the 3rd. Ohtani only got better as the game progressed, hitting three home runs in his next three at-bats. The Japanese-born Dodger added two stolen bases in the game, pushing him into a club no MLB player has ever reached — 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases.
Dodgers play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis was on the call when Ohtani crushed his second homer of the game, which set the MLB record.
&#8220;One-of-a-kind player! One-of-a-kind season! Shohei Ohtani starts the 50/50 club!&#8221; said Davis as Ohtani&#8217;s ball flew past the left-field wall
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&#8220;Triple for the cycle, homer for history. On a 1-2, Ohtani&#8230; SENDS ONE IN THE AIR, THE OTHER WAY, BACK IT GOES, GOOOOOONNNEEE! ONE OF A KIND PLAYER! ONE OF A KIND SEASON! SHOHEI OHTANI STARTS THE 50/50 CLUB!&#8221; &#8211; Joe Davis on the historic call⚾️🎙️🦄 <a href="https://t.co/JxDyNUfzTD">pic.twitter.com/JxDyNUfzTD</a>
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href="https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1836904797925945505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ohtani wasn&#8217;t finished after setting the record as he crushed his 51st home run of the season in the 9th inning, helping the Dodgers dismantle the Marlins in a 20-4 victory.
&#8220;Oh my gosh! Shohei Ohtani! The greatest day in baseball history!&#8221; Davis said after Ohtani blasted another homer. &#8220;This is not real life. He is not human.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s the cliché that you never know what you&#8217;re gonna see when you go to the park. You gotta change that cliché from now on. There&#8217;s one thing you know you&#8217;ll never see- what you saw today,&#8221; Davis added.
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&#8220;OH MY GOSH! SHOHEI OHTANI! THE GREATEST DAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY!&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s the cliché that you never know what you&#8217;re gonna see when you go to the park. You gotta change that cliché from now on. There&#8217;s one thing you know you&#8217;ll never see- what you saw today.&#8221; &#8211; Joe Davis ⚾️🎙️ <a href="https://t.co/XHue8pgMmU">https://t.co/XHue8pgMmU</a> <a href="https://t.co/TuFiFXIXi2">pic.twitter.com/TuFiFXIXi2</a>
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Ohtani finished the game batting 6-for-6 with three home runs and 10 RBIs. Only two other players in the history of the sport that dates back to 1876 recorded six hits, three homers, and 10 RBIs in a game — Cincinnati Reds catcher Walker Cooper in 1949 and Anthony Rendon of the Washington Nationals in 2017, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/shohei-ohtani-50-50-club-5051eafa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The 30-year-old phenom also set a new Dodgers record on Thursday for the most home runs in a single season, passing Shawn Green&#8217;s 49 homers in 2022.
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“To be honest, I’m the one probably most surprised. I have no idea where this came from but I’m glad that I performed well today,” Ohtani <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/sport/shohei-ohtani-50-50/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The Dodgers have clinched a playoff spot and stand at 91-62 on the season, which currently ties them with the Philadelphia Phillies for the <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best record</a> in the majors.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona">Arizona</a> woman who claimed former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer sexually assaulted her has been charged with extorting him.
Darcy Esemonu has been indicted by a grand jury for fraudulent schemes and theft by extortion, both felonies, ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39958530/trevor-bauer-accuser-indicted-fraud-arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. She is scheduled for arraignment on April 26 in Maricopa County.
Esemonu “knowingly did obtain a benefit from &#8230; Trevor Anthony Bauer by means of fraudulent pretenses, representation, promises, or material omissions,&#8221; the indictment against her says. She also &#8220;knowingly did obtain or sought to obtain property or services &#8230; by means of a threat to in the future expose a secret or an asserted fact in a social media message or in any other manner&#8221; involving a second man, who is not associated with Bauer.
In 2022, Esemonu filed a lawsuit against Bauer, claiming he sexually assaulted her in 2020 and that she had become pregnant from the encounter. She later updated that lawsuit in 2023. Bauer countersued, saying his encounter with Esemonu “was consensual” and alleging that she tried to harass and extort money from him after he was accused of sexual assault by several other women.
Bauer’s attorneys told ESPN that Esemonu demanded $3.6 million from Bauer, claiming he “forced her to have an abortion.” When he refused to pay her the money, “she made up a bogus sexual assault claim and filed a civil suit against” Bauer.
Esemonu reported the alleged sexual assault to police a week after she filed her lawsuit. Police reports obtained by ESPN show that Esemonu &#8220;initially stated she had a miscarriage, but later referred to the miscarriage as an abortion” when talking to police. Later, she told police there was no abortion but that she miscarried just before heading to a clinic in a different state. A police detective noted in the reports that none of the medical records Esemonu provided indicated that she “was in fact pregnant.”
In January 2023, Bauer’s attorney, Anne Chapman, filed a criminal complaint with the Scottsdale Police Department – the same police department where Esemonu made her allegations – and said the woman “had demanded financial compensation from her client for a pregnancy and abortion that was alleged to be false.&#8221;
Bauer was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also accused</a> of sexual assault by Lindsey Hill, who also claimed the former star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers beat her.
He never faced charges relating to the allegations, and a restraining order filed by Hill was denied. Bauer always maintained that the rough sex between him and Hill was consensual.
Once the settlement was announced, Bauer released <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1708904525724270659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1708904525724270659%7Ctwgr%5E87b30e1ab225617b6890c095bb4047a5c5643ad0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fnext-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a video</a> revealing some of the text messages Hill had sent to her friends prior to meeting Bauer and after their encounter, which suggests she had always been focused on getting money from him.
“’Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers,&#8217;” Bauer begins in the video with a picture of Hill’s text. “A text Lindsey Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. ‘What should I steal?’ she asked another, in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer? ‘Take his money.’ So how might that work? ‘I’m going to his house Wednesday.’ she said, ‘I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll.’ Then, after the first time we met, “Net worth is 51 mil” she said. ‘b—h, you better secure the bag’, was the response.”
“But how was she going to do that?” Bauer continued. “‘Need daddy to choke me out,’ she said. ‘being an absolute whore to try to get in on his 51 million,’ read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former [San Diego] Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her ‘you gotta get this bag.’ ‘I’ll give you 50,000’ Lindsey replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, ‘do you feel a tiny bit guilty?’ ‘Not really,’ she replied.”
Bauer said these messages were “deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team” until he filed his lawsuit against Hill and the case entered discovery.
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He also played a video taken just minutes before Hill left Bauer’s house in the morning after the alleged assault, showing her in bed next to him smirking at the camera with no evidence of injury or distress.
He said Hill’s legal team had approached him for money, but after this evidence was turned over, they approached with a settlement offer that included no money. He agreed to a settlement that allowed him to publicly discuss the case since he could not do so for legal reasons prior.
Bauer was suspended for 324 games because of the allegations, but an independent arbitrator reduced that ban to 194 games in December, Fox reported. No team picked him up, so he began playing in Japan for the Yokohama DeNa Baystars, where he was 10-4 with a 2.76 ERA and 130 strikeouts in 19 games.

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Woman Who Accused Trevor Bauer Of Sexual Assault Now Charged With Extorting Him

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-dodgers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> pitcher Trevor Bauer is looking for a second chance in the MLB, explaining that he&#8217;s learned a lot over the past few years and has made major changes in his personal life.
Bauer was initially <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147689888/la-dodgers-cut-trevor-bauer#:~:text=MLB%20Commissioner%20Rob%20Manfred%20suspended,sexually%20abused%20her%20in%202021." target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> for a stunning 324 games from the league after a San Diego woman named Lindsey Hill accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her twice in 2021. Notably, Bauer was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never charged</a> with a crime and was placed on administrative leave by his then-team before any investigation was ever conducted.
&#8220;I know I’ve made mistakes,&#8221; the athlete <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trevor-bauer-says-hes-grown-mistakes-past-hopes-second-opportunity-in-mlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News&#8217; Bill Hemmer on Thursday. &#8220;That’s kinda what I’m trying to focus on &#8212; how do I get better from the experiences that I’ve had.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve made mistakes in my personal life,&#8221; Bauer explained. &#8220;I’m really detail-oriented when it comes to baseball and my training, but I didn’t apply the same level of scrutiny to my personal life. I made mistakes. I agreed to do things I shouldn’t have done. I was reckless. It hurt a lot of people along the way. I made things very difficult for Major League Baseball, for the Dodgers, my teammates, my friends, family, people close to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve done a lot of reflecting on that and made a lot of changes in my life to address that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’m not having casual sexual relationships anymore, for example.&#8221;
Bauer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled his legal dispute</a> with Hill last year and released a video revealing some of the text messages Hill sent to her friends prior to meeting Bauer and after one of their encounters that suggests she was always focused on getting money from him.
&#8220;&#8216;Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers,'&#8221; Bauer begins in the video with a picture of Hill’s text. “A text Lindsey Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. ‘What should I steal?’ she asked another, in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer? ‘Take his money.’ So how might that work? ‘I’m going to his house Wednesday,’ she said. ‘I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll.’ Then, after the first time we met, &#8216;Net worth is 51 mil.&#8217; she said. ‘b****, you better secure the bag,’ was the response.”
“But how was she going to do that?” Bauer continued. “‘Need daddy to choke me out,’ she said. ‘being an absolute w**** to try to get in on his 51 million,’ read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former [San Diego] Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her ‘you gotta get this bag.’ ‘I’ll give you 50,000,’ Lindsey replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, ‘do you feel a tiny bit guilty?’ ‘Not really,’ she replied.”
Bauer said these messages were “deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team” until he filed his lawsuit against Hill and the case entered discovery.
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2 years later and I can finally talk about this ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/o6jFqMzY05">pic.twitter.com/o6jFqMzY05</a>
&mdash; Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1708904525724270659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A motion from Bauer to dismiss Hill’s lawsuit accusing the athlete of sexual assault includes a video of Hill and Bauer in bed. Hill appears in the 10-second video and slowly moves the camera toward a sleeping Bauer. She then moves the camera back on herself and smiles coyly.
“Hi. Just a friendly reminder that [Trevor Bauer] is 100% innocent,” one person captioned the now-viral video.
“This was taken hours after I supposedly brutally assaulted this woman, when she claims she was terrified and desperate to get out of my house and in tremendous pain,” Bauer reacted to the post.
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This was taken hours after I supposedly brutally assaulted this woman, when she claims she was terrified and desperate to get out of my house and in tremendous pain. <a href="https://t.co/k0jma3eqLP">https://t.co/k0jma3eqLP</a>
&mdash; Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1570097489100808195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trevor went on to tell Hemmer that he handled things with a lot of people, including the media, poorly in the past.
&#8220;I also made a lot of people in the media mad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was very immature with how I handled things when people would write things about me I didn’t agree with. I should’ve just had a private, adult conversation with someone. I was bullied a lot as a kid. I don’t really want to get into that, but at the time I viewed a lot of my responses on social media as standing up for myself and having a voice. And I think I was just immature.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’ve grown up a lot, for sure,&#8221; the athlete continued. &#8220;My viewpoints now are drastically different than they were five years ago, 10 years ago. Different things are important to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I’d love to play baseball,&#8221; Bauer added. &#8220;That’s my goal — to play baseball here in the United States. Still one of the best pitchers in the world. I’d like to compete at the highest level. I’m also really passionate about helping people, being good for the game. I think I’ve done a lot of damage, unfortunately, in the first half of my career, and I’d love a second opportunity to do things better.&#8221;
Ashe Schow contributed to this report 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Next Victim. Star Pitcher For The Dodgers’: Trevor Bauer Reveals Texts From His Accuser Following Settlement</a>

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‘Not Having Casual Sexual Relationships Anymore’: Trevor Bauer Speaks Out After Apparent #MeToo Fraud

Former MLB Player Trevor Bauer Speaks Out After Apparent #MeToo Fraud

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/major-league-baseball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major League Baseball</a> star Steve Garvey announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> race as a Republican, saying that his campaign would focus on “quality of life” issues and returning California to being the “heartbeat” of America.
Garvey, 74, had a lengthy MLB career spanning from 1969-1987 where he played first base for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-dodgers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> and the San Diego Padres. The former baseball player, who won the National League MVP award in 1974, told The Daily Wire that he decided to run after seeing the “dysfunction” of Washington, D.C.
“I talk about a chorus of career politicians from the state of California that have told people what’s good for them, that your life is great, and it’s just not true,” Garvey said in an interview. “They know that their life could be better. They know they’ve seen better days in California, that’s why they are still here; they love California. But they need help.”
Garvey, whose <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC44seizfO8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first campaign ad</a> highlighted his baseball career, indicated that he would use the relationship he built with Californians during his MLB career to earn support.
“I’ve had this 50-year love affair with California, starting with when I first put on a Dodger uniform back on September 1, 1969,” he said. “The fans knew that I played for them, I played honestly, and gave my 100 percent.”
Key issues he said he would focus on included addressing economic challenges like the rising price of food and gasoline, affordable housing, supporting law enforcement, and education. He also said that the border should be secured and that the government needed to “shut down the sources of illicit drugs that are killing Americans.”
As senator, he said that he would focus on making &#8220;common sense decisions for the people of California.” In previous <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-senate-steve-garvey-baseball-ce5fb39988916e7eb91ec0c5a31c9c1b?taid=6525473069f2640001d99e94&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviews</a>, he said that he would uphold the state’s stance on abortion and would not support a nationwide abortion ban.
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As a Republican, Garvey faces an uphill climb, as a Republican has not won a national Senate seat in over 30 years. Garvey previously <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/steve-garvey-california-senate/#:~:text=Former%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20player,who%20died%20earlier%20this%20month." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he voted for former President Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020.
Democrats in the race for deceased California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s former seat include Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Katie Porter, and Rep. Barbara Lee. California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler, a radical pro-abortion activist, to Feinstein’s seat earlier this month.
Garvey said that ordinary people had been left behind by California polices and that politicians were not making decisions beneficial to the state or the country.
“I saw such a dysfunction in Washington in career politicians really living for the business of politics and not for the people of California or this country,” Garvey told The Daily Wire.

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After reaching a settlement in his legal dispute, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on Monday revealed the text messages his accuser sent to her friends.
Bauer was placed on administrative leave by his team before any investigation was conducted after Lindsey Hill accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her twice in 2021. He never faced charges relating to the allegations, and a restraining order filed by Hill was denied. Bauer always maintained that the rough sex between him and Hill was consensual.
Once the settlement was announced, Bauer released a video revealing some of the text messages Hill sent to her friends prior to meeting Bauer and after their encounter that suggests she was always focused on getting money from him.
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2 years later and I can finally talk about this ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/o6jFqMzY05">pic.twitter.com/o6jFqMzY05</a>
— Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1708904525724270659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“&#8217;Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers,'&#8221; Bauer begins in the video with a picture of Hill’s text. &#8220;A text Lindsey Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. ‘What should I steal?’ she asked another, in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer? ‘Take his money.’ So how might that work? ‘I’m going to his house Wednesday.’ she said, ‘I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll.’ Then, after the first time we met, &#8220;Net worth is 51 mil&#8221; she said. ‘b&#8212;h, you better secure the bag’, was the response.”
&#8220;But how was she going to do that?” Bauer continued. “‘Need daddy to choke me out,’ she said. ‘being an absolute whore to try to get in on his 51 million,’ read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former [San Diego] Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her ‘you gotta get this bag.’ ‘I’ll give you 50,000’ Lindsey replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, ‘do you feel a tiny bit guilty?’ ‘Not really,’ she replied.&#8221;
Bauer said these messages were &#8220;deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team&#8221; until he filed his lawsuit against Hill and the case entered discovery.
He also played a video taken just minutes before Hill left Bauer’s house in the morning after the alleged assault, showing her in bed next to him smirking at the camera with no evidence of injury or distress.
He said Hill’s legal team had approached him for money, but after this evidence was turned over, they approached with a settlement offer that included no money. He agreed to a settlement that allowed him to publicly discuss the case since he could not do so for legal reasons prior.
&#8220;Now over the last two years, I’ve been forced to defend my integrity and my reputation in a very public setting, but hopefully this is the last time I have to do so, as I’d prefer to just remain focused on doing my job, winning baseball games and entertaining fans around the world. So today I’m happy to be moving on with my life,&#8221; Bauer concluded his video.
After the settlement, Bauer&#8217;s attorneys released a statement.
&#8220;Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill have settled all outstanding litigation,&#8221; Bauer’s attorneys, Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley, said in a statement on Monday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trevor-bauer-settles-legal-dispute-accuser-reveals-damning-messages" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>. &#8220;Both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with prejudice, effective today. Mr. Bauer did not make — and never has made — any payments to Ms. Hill, including to resolve their litigation. “
&#8220;With this matter now at rest, Mr. Bauer can focus completely on baseball,&#8221; the attorneys added.
Bauer was suspended for 324 games due solely to the allegations, but that ban was reduced to 194 games by an independent arbitrator in December, Fox reported. No team picked him up, so he began playing in Japan for the Yokohama DeNa Baystars, where he was 10-4 with a 2.76 ERA and 130 strikeouts in 19 games.
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In March 2022, Bauer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trevor-bauer-suing-the-athletic-for-defamation-over-sexual-assault-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> The Athletic for defamation after it reported that Hill sustained a fractured skull due to Bauer’s alleged attack. Bauer in his lawsuit said the Athletic had access to Hill’s medical records, which showed no skull fracture, yet published the information anyway.
“While this is not the time or the place to address every single lie or falsehood that this woman or her lawyers made to the court, I do want to be crystal clear about a few things,” Bauer said in a February 2022 video in which he defended himself. “I never punched this woman in the face. I never punched her in the vagina. I never scratched her face. I never had anal sex with her or sodomized her in any way. I never assaulted her in any way at any time. While we did have consensual rough sex, the disturbing acts and conduct that she described simply did not occur.”
Bauer eventually dropped his lawsuit against the Athletic.
He later sued Hill for defamation, but she countersued. The two settled and exchanged no money, though Hill will receive $300,000 from her insurance company, which is independent of her settlement with Bauer.

‘Next Victim. Star Pitcher For The Dodgers’: Trevor Bauer Reveals Texts From His Accuser Following Settlement

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-dodgers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> pitcher Julio Urias was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/domestic-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">domestic violence</a>, according to multiple reports.
The Los Angeles Police Department <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38328539/dodgers-p-julio-urias-arrested-domestic-violence-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told ESPN</a> that Urias, 27, was detained on felony charges.
Citing jail records, the news outlet said Urias was booked around 1 a.m., a couple of hours after his arrest. He was then released on $50,000 bond and has a court date of September 27.
The Dodgers released a statement acknowledging that the team was aware of an &#8220;incident&#8221; involving Urias.
&#8220;While we attempt to learn all the facts, he will not be traveling with the team. The organization has no further comment at this time,&#8221; the statement added, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dodgers-pitcher-julio-urias-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the local CBS affiliate</a>.
Major League Baseball (MLB) will conduct an investigation and Urias has been placed on administrative leave while it pans out, The Orange County Register&#8217;s Bill Plunkett <a href="https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1698773765591630267" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in posts to X, noting that the pitcher may not play again for the Dodgers as he is is set to become a free agent at the end of the season.
Urias was previously arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery in 2019 after he was allegedly seen pushing a woman to the ground in a parking lot, as <a href="https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2023-09-04/dodgers-julio-urias-charged-felony-domestic-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted by the Los Angeles Times</a>. The player did <a href="https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-julio-urias-no-domestic-battery-charges-city-attorney-20190603-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not face any charges</a> in connection to that case, but he was <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/julio-urias-suspended" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> for 20 games under the MLB&#8217;s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy.
&#8220;Although the authorities determined no charges of any kind were warranted, I accept full responsibility for what I believe was my inappropriate conduct during the incident,&#8221; Urias said in a statement at the time. &#8220;Even in this instance where there was no injury or history of violence, I understand and agree that Major League players should be held to a higher standard. I hold myself to a higher standard as well. I have taken proactive steps to help grow as a person on and off the field, and in my relationships, including attending counseling sessions.&#8221;
Urias, who was born in Mexico, has played in the MLB for the Dodgers since the 2016 season. He notably threw the strikeout that <a href="https://www.mlb.com/player/julio-urias-628711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secured victory</a> for his team in the 2020 World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays and he <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/julio-urias-third-place-nl-cy-young-award-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">finished third</a> in the race for the National League&#8217;s Cy Young award last year.
This season, while contending with <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37695430/dodgers-place-lhp-julio-urias-il-hamstring-strain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hamstring</a> and <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/julio-urias-tosses-5-scoreless-innings-after-fingernail-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">finger</a> injuries, the left-hander has <a href="https://www.mlb.com/player/julio-urias-628711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notched</a> 11 wins and eight losses along with a 4.60 Earned Run Average.
The Dodgers sit atop the National League&#8217;s West division with a 84-52 record and 14.5-game lead over the second-place Arizona Diamondbacks with about four weeks left to play in the regular season.

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Dodgers Pitcher Arrested On Suspicion Of Domestic Violence

Dodgers Pitcher Arrested On Suspicion of Domestic Violence

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Last Friday, I traveled to Los Angeles to join Californians outside Dodger Stadium in a historic protest and prayer rally over the Dodgers’ decision to honor the anti-Catholic hate group, the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
There are many images in my mind from that day, but one stands out as the epitome of what this entire battle has been about.
A Hispanic family had brought a laundry cart upon which they placed a framed image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a piece of art which symbolizes a particular devotion to Christ. They had carefully arranged flowers on top and in front of it, and behind it they draped a red cloth.
I snapped one blurry photo as I walked by. Looking at it brings me to tears. This family reverently took this image – which clearly occupies a place of honor in their home – and went to the trouble of bringing it to Dodger Stadium and creating a makeshift altar for it out of a laundry cart. This family cherishes their faith and its symbols and traditions which have been handed down to them over the course of 2,000 years … symbols and traditions which are being degraded and desecrated by a hate group which has the backing of the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers.
But they did not bring the image to Dodger Stadium to express their fury, though they were surely angry at what this group is doing to their faith. Instead, when I saw them, the mother and teenage daughter were on their knees praying the rosary along with the crowd.
They had every right to spew vitriol against the men who mock their faith. But instead they chose to do what Jesus taught: to pray for those who persecute us.
This family’s profound witness cuts to the heart of what our campaign against the Dodgers has been about since the beginning – ordinary Catholics standing up for their faith, and prayerfully defending it from those who so callously mock, defile, and pervert it.
My organization, CatholicVote, is a scrappy band of fewer than 50 employees which has been leading the charge, but this fight came to us from the bottom up. We first learned of the award because a supporter of ours emailed us to say he was a lifelong Dodgers fan and was disturbed to see the award announced in an email from the team.
Once we broke the story, pushback from Catholics and people of all faiths began immediately. A few days later, the Dodgers disinvited the hate group. 
Coming under pressure from a small band of extremists, however, the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence&#8221; were re-invited.
So we announced a million-dollar ad campaign to educate Dodgers fans across California and the country about what exactly this treasured, all-American institution now stands for. But we chose our words carefully: in our announcement, we said we would raise a million dollars, not that we would spend a million dollars – because we didn’t have that kind of money to spend. We had no idea what we would actually raise.
Within days, we saw tens of thousands of individuals making small gifts – nearly all of them under $100 – and we smashed our fundraising goal. For a non-profit of our size, the scale of the support was staggering. Every dollar went towards putting a message against anti-Catholic bigotry on the air.
On the day of the “Pride Night,” we were similarly amazed at the massive presence of Catholics who showed up to prayerfully protest the Dodgers’ anti-Catholic bigotry. From the podium during my brief speech, I looked at the faces of a truly diverse crowd of people gathered in prayer even as they were being shamed by the billion-dollar corporation just up on the hill: abuelos and abuelas, twenty-somethings and teenagers, priests, and real nuns. The message of the day was prayer and reparation for the acts of hatred against our God and our faith. Some people held signs saying, “They know not what they do.” Most of the crowd held rosaries which they prayed together for the men who commit sacrilege against our religion. To be sure, people were fired up. But I didn’t hear a word of hatred. The event was peaceful from start to finish.
The thousands of people gathered in Los Angeles last week represented millions of people across the country who have been hurt by what the Dodgers did. Under the banner of diversity, the Dodgers showed contempt for the people of the most racially diverse religious group in the world.
Our million-dollar campaign is a warning shot to woke corporations everywhere: If you insult and degrade Christians, we will stand up.
But we’ll also pray for you. It’s what Catholics do.
Tommy Valentine is director of the Catholic Accountability Project at <a href="http://catholicvote.org">CatholicVote</a>. You can follow Catholic Vote on Twitter: @CatholicVote
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