Dr. Anthony Fauci was present in Seattle Tuesday to collect the Hutch Award, and pitch the first pitch at the Seattle Mariners’ game.
The Hutch Award is described as one of the “top annual awards given to a Major League Baseball player.” It “recognizes the player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire of Fred Hutchinson, the legendary pitcher and manager who died of cancer at the age of 45.” Fauci is only the second non-player to receive the award. Turns out he’s friends with the former president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Dr. Larry Corey, so that likely explains why he was getting the award.
Fauci being Fauci he dropped fun news during his time at the Center, telling them “We are expecting another [COVID] surge in the fall.” He also was putting down people who had questioned his advice, according to Outkick. “It’s still amazing to me that people can still hold onto such untruths. They have so much going on in their lives, that they just accept it as fact,” Fauci said. Secret Service agents were guarding him. Joe Biden probably authorized this for him.
Fauci was also asked to pitch the Seattle Mariners’ first pitch while he was there.
Even in liberal Seattle, he was met with a chorus.
Fauci was booed when he threw the first pitch in Seattle’s Mariners game.
At the very least, he’s worked hard on his pitching abilities since last year pic.twitter.com/9QqX8YUGwy
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) August 10, 2022
The fans didn’t hold back. Someone also shouted, “You’re going to miss this like you missed the pandemic, loser!”
This pitch seemed pretty ridiculous.
Dr. Fauci’s first pitch. Fauci signed his mask afterwards after Servais had caught the pitch. pic.twitter.com/SjOf4alLtE
— Lookout Landing (@LookoutLanding) August 10, 2022
It was still better than the pitch he made in July 2020 at Washington Nationals. This pitch was Barack Obama-level awful.
Dr. Fauci‘s ceremonial first pitch at the Nationals game went worse than that time in March when he said “there’s no reason to be walking around in a mask” in the middle of an outbreak. 😳😂 pic.twitter.com/T9VukJEBjT
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 24, 2020
But I don’t expect Fauci to learn anything from the boos about the way that he has conducted himself regarding the pandemic. That would require some self-reflection which I don’t think he has the capacity for. He can’t change how much the policies he has helped to promote hurt this country and people aren’t going to forget it.