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<\/p>\nRUSH: No, no. In fact, what I\u2019ve heard, I\u2019ve heard more people are just tuning out baseball. All it took was to see BLM, Black Lives Matter, on the pitcher\u2019s mound at some of these games, and I know some big-time baseball fans that said to heck with this. And they just turned it off. And, you know, I don\u2019t blame \u2019em. I don\u2019t think these professional sports leagues have the slightest idea what has happened to them and what is in store for them.<\/p>\n
And we\u2019re gonna be discussing that and a whole bunch of other stuff. Great to be back, folks. Happy to have you here. Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882, and if you want to send an email, it\u2019s ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
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You know, here\u2019s the deal. Fourteen Florida Marlins players and coaches have tested positive. Now, the Florida Marlins played a three-game series in Philadelphia against the Phillies. The Florida Marlins are scheduled to open their home season tonight against somebody. I don\u2019t even know who. I don\u2019t even care. But they can\u2019t. They\u2019ve canceled it because they\u2019re still in Philly because so many of \u2019em have tested positive.<\/p>\n
But now how many Phillies are gonna test positive having been close to the Marlins who tested positive? The Yankees were supposed to open in Philadelphia tonight — well, not open, yeah, open a three-game series. That game has been canceled and they\u2019re fumigating the Yankee, slash, Marlins clubhouse because they have no idea how many people have come in contact with the 14 Marlins players.<\/p>\n
There was a report today that Major League Baseball\u2019s executive council was gonna have a super-secret meeting, and they were going to discuss canceling the whole season. That report, according to latest news, is not true. The latest news, in fact, let me share with you the actual headline: “Report: Major League Baseball Has Not Had Talks of Pausing Season Amid Marlins COVID-19 Outbreak.”<\/p>\n
You know, if they\u2019re not, they\u2019re gonna have to soon because we got three games in, and have you seen the story about A&E? The A&E TV network had this show called Live PD, and it was about cops. They\u2019ve lost half their audience since all this anti-cops stuff started. Arts & Entertainment, co-owned by Walt Disney and Hearst, dropped Live PD in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. It was one of their biggest-viewed, most-viewed shows. And it featured body cam footage and footage from the dashboard of the police cars. And people watched it.<\/p>\n
But now, because of the anti-cop sentiment, they\u2019ve lost half of the audience. Now, what does the NFL think is gonna happen and what does Major League Baseball think is gonna happen once they start protesting the anthem and kneeling, which Major League Baseball has done, and they put Black Lives Matter all over the pitcher\u2019s mounds? And it\u2019s a Marxist organization. Everybody knows this. And they\u2019re ignoring it. It\u2019s not hard to find out that it\u2019s not about civil rights. It\u2019s not about fairness. It\u2019s not about doing this.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a pro-Marxist, anti-American, full-fledged anti-American organization. And the fact that the people in professional sports don\u2019t even seem to care enough to get it right, that they\u2019re just gonna go ahead and follow whatever the erroneous conventional wisdom is, they\u2019re in the process of dwindling their audiences down to — I don\u2019t know what.<\/p>\n
Snerdley, did any of you guys try watching Major League Baseball? (interruption) I did because I wanted to see what it looked like with no fans. I wanted to see what it looked like. I haven\u2019t watched professional baseball on a regular basis in years. You know, once you work for a team, you lose the ingredients necessary to be a fan. And I worked for the Kansas City Royals all the way back in the \u201980s. So I haven\u2019t been a, quote, unquote, baseball fan, but I was curious, you know, as a media raconteur and commentator here, I wanted to see what it looked like with no fans.<\/p>\n
And it didn\u2019t look real to me. It looked like exhibition baseball. It looked like games that don\u2019t count. And then the Black Lives Matter painted in black, however they superimpose it on the pitcher\u2019s mound, so many stadiums, so many games. But it was the no fans — and then Fox came along, and they tried to put virtual fans in the stands. What a joke that was.<\/p>\n
And then some networks piped in crowd noise. Whenever there was a strike-out you could hear a faint cheer from people that weren\u2019t there. And what it was was evidence that the game itself is not enough to sustain interest. And it didn\u2019t. I tried to get involved, I tried to get involved in the competitive nature, and I couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Now, I may not be normal in that sense. A lot of people are baseball fans where I\u2019m not, but I\u2019ll tell you, I have heard from people who are livid over the Black Lives Matter imposed on the pitcher\u2019s mound, people that are big baseball fans said that was it, tuning out, not watching.<\/p>\n
So we shall see what happens with… (interruption) Well, now football, here\u2019s the thing. If you\u2019re gonna look at what\u2019s going on with football, you can\u2019t ignore this business with the Florida Marlins, because 14 people have tested — and they\u2019re not all symptomatic. Some people are suffering symptoms. But those 14 that have come down with it have interacted with who knows how many other people who may not test positive for a day or two or maybe a week. You don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
So they played the Phillies. That means that they got close to some Phillies players. They were in the clubhouse, the Marlins were in their clubhouse, the visiting team clubhouse, and there was a staff of players, you know, the home team furnishes the clubhouse staff. Those people were in there. They might have become infected. So it\u2019s probably gonna be more than 14.<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s apparent here that the plan was this. The plan was we\u2019re gonna start playing baseball, we\u2019re gonna have as much social distancing as we can. We\u2019re gonna have no fans in the stands. We gonna have the umpires and anybody else that wants to wear a mask, except for Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci does not have to wear a mask when he\u2019s watching the Nationals.<\/p>\n
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By the way, who had the worst first pitch, was it Fauci or Obama? What is it about leftists that cannot throw a baseball? Did you hear Fauci\u2019s excuse? Fauci said, you know, he hadn\u2019t thrown a baseball in, like, 80 years. So the day before the first pitch he went somewhere and started rehearsing. And he was throwing and throwing, and he threw too hard and he wrecked his arm, he ruined his arm, he said.<\/p>\n
So when it came time to throw out the first pitch at the game, his arm was wrecked, he had practiced too much, and that\u2019s why he couldn\u2019t get any juice on it. He should\u2019ve just lobbed it, he said, but instead he tried to fire a fastball right over the middle of the plate and instead it ended up halfway to first base. Do you realize you couldn\u2019t do that unless you were trying to?<\/p>\n
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Most people couldn\u2019t do what Fauci did unless they were trying to. (thump) Pardon me. I hit the microphone there. Didn\u2019t mean to do that. And then Fauci shows up later, he\u2019s in the second deck, three people, and he\u2019s not wearing a mask. And he\u2019s the guy that\u2019s been encouraging everybody to wear a mask! Anyway, anyway, apparently baseball\u2019s policy has been to play the games and travel around as normal and just hope that nobody got the virus.<\/p>\n
Just hope. And then when somebody gets the virus, they don\u2019t know what to do now. They\u2019ve canceled the Marlins game. Fourteen members of the team and the staff are still in Philadelphia, and I guarantee you Philadelphia (chuckles) wants the Marlins out of town. “Would you guys leave? Would you take whatever it is you\u2019ve got and go back home to Florida?” So, we\u2019ll have to see.<\/p>\n
Now, your question about football. Football\u2019s gotta be watching this. Football is gonna be featuring players in much closer contact than baseball players will find themselves, and I just don\u2019t see how the NFL has been… I\u2019ve not envisioned them being able to play. I admire \u2019em for trying. I admire \u2019em for setting it up. You know, the NFL has tried to proceed on as much a normalcy contingent as they can.<\/p>\n
But I just… (interruption) No, it\u2019s not that. The reason I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna be able to play is because of the reaction everybody\u2019s having to the virus, not the virus itself. I think the reaction has gone way beyond the rational. We don\u2019t even… You know, all these scare stories every day about the new number of cases all over the place, and we still don\u2019t know what the real number is because it\u2019s being fudged because there\u2019s a political component.<\/p>\n
You know, everything about this is “Get Trump.” Everything about this is “Stop Trump.” Everything about this is “Get rid of Trump.”<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. So the Marlins and Orioles game is canceled, the Yankees-Phillies game is canceled tonight, while Major League Baseball conducts additional COVID-19 testing, the members of the Marlins traveling party self-quarantining in place in Philadelphia while awaiting the outcome of these new testing results. There are people who think that there will not be another Major League Baseball game this season.<\/p>\n
Ah, they do. People think, “This is it. It\u2019s just a matter of time, just a matter of when the league can let everybody know this on the down low.” But we will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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