One minute a member of the World Series champion Washington Nationals. The next minute the most hated man in America.
That’s Kurt Suzuki.
The Washington catcher had the temerity to don a red cap at the White House ceremony honoring the Nationals as baseball’s best Monday. Only the red hat didn’t have the Nationals’ traditional curly “W” on it. Instead, it displayed President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA).
“It was amazing,” Suzuki told USA Today in a text message. “That was the president. Just trying to have some fun.”
That was the way it used to be. Teams who won national college or professional championships were invited to the White House, met the president and got to yuck it up with one of the most powerful men in the world. It was a big deal.