'I will be buying an AR-15': MLB investigating umpire who called for civil war if Trump is impeached

[George II]

Source: Raw Story, ESPN

On Wednesday, ESPN reported that baseball officials are looking into a tweet by Major League umpire Rob Drake, in which he announced he was buying a semiautomatic rifle in preparation for the civil war that would erupt if President Donald Trump is impeached.

“I will be buying an AR-15 tomorrow, because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL [sic] WAR!!! #MAGA2020” tweeted Drake, who has umpired postseason games since 2010 and lives in Arizona.

Another tweet said, “You can’t do an impeachment inquiry from the basement of Capital [sic] Hill without even a vote! What is going on in this country?”

Drake has since deleted his Twitter rant and deactivated his account.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/i-will-be-buying-an-ar-15-mlb-investigating-umpire-who-called-for-civil-war-if-trump-is-impeached/

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Swing and a miss!!!!

"Drake has since deleted his Twitter rant and deactivated his account." - how stupid does he think we are?

[still_one]

1. At a minimum he should be fired for inciting violence

[TryLogic]

18. Fire him!

Send him on a required, extended, unpaid vacation to El Salvador.

[Odoreida]

25. Fired? Isn't that a criminal offense? n/t

[still_one]

27. I don't know. It might be interpreted as free speech, but since he has a job with the public, that

may make it different


Anyway, I said at a minimum

[MontanaMama]

2. I'd like to see MLB

set Mr. Drake free.

[YOHABLO]

3. Okay

[3Hotdogs]

4. Someone should tell him, just buy a bar of Dove soap and go in the shower.

Its cheaper than the gun.


But for him, maybe not as fast.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Yeah, right

If civil war breaks out, one-man armies of confederates will be facing the United States Army not the “snowflakes” they fantasize about murdering because they can’t get their way. Morons like this better buy two AR-15s, and one life and burial insurance policy.

[Woodwizard]

9. I know a anti guv idiot

I have said to him do you really think an AR15 is going to stop soldiers trained to fight other highly armed forces. That's pretty much all we did while I was in the Army.

[tazkcmo]

29. I agree with you.

They only have small arms fire power, only crude reconnaissance capabilities, no command and control, logistical infrastructer, military leadership and on and on. At best, they will be able to mount an uncoordinated and haphazard Insurgency and there will be no revolutions per se.

Unfortunately, there will be casualties, revolution or no revolution because you just know there are hardcore MAGAts out there that are capable of inflicting th horrible casualties on innocent civilians.

[Javaman]

6. the amusing logic behind these morons calling for a "civil war"...

1) they think they will be the hero

2) they think they will win it all by themselves

3) they think that the Dems and the Left wouldn't fight back.

add others if you like, but this is a bizarre culmination of their masturbatory gun culture fantasy.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

26. Yeah as if liberals don't own guns!

I don't but I have many liberal friends who do...….

[lark]

7. Kick him out now!

Zero tolerance for threats of violence.

[iluvtennis]

17. + 1

[world wide wally]

8. Kill the ump!

[ReformedGOPer]

10. Investigated? He should be fired.

Who wants to go to a ball game and have to worry if the ump will open fire?

[Stuart G]

14. He will be fired. Some things are against the rules. This guy broke the rules, & doesn't know it

[in2herbs]

11. Of course he lives in AZ as do the R Congresscritters from AZ who stormed the SCIF facility.

Sometimes living in this sea of red stupidity is just too much.

[ArizonaLib]

13. I agree - another one from Arizona

Many have forgotten that John McCain pushed against MLK day when Arizona was the last remaining state to have an MLK holiday.

Idiots like this umpire are all talk when it comes to their civil war. In the meantime, they spend their daily lives acting like assholes to those who don't appear to belong to their social tribe. I would think he would be embarrassed to admit he doesn't already have at least one AR-15. Maybe he already feels at home with a Russian Kalashnikov.

[rurallib]

12. Just thinking last night that if he is a follower of the racist president

then how can he impartially do his job that involves calling plays that involve immigrants and people of color? Baseball may want to look into that.

[TryLogic]

19. Good point.

[aggiesal]

21. WOW, see my post #20 n/t

[BlueIdaho]

15. How to lose your job in one easy lesson.

I wouldn’t want a lunatic like that officiating anything.

[Initech]

16. The MAGA cult is definitely showing their true intentions lately.

[aggiesal]

20. This guy needs to be fired ...

MLB is a diverse organization, and if Rob Drake believes in MAGA2020, he's against immigration and immigrant players would know it. Any calls against a foreign born player will now come into question.
Yes, I will question his integrity from this point forward.

Here is the breakdown of foreign born players in the MLB.
The 251 players born outside the U.S. (28.5%)

Dominican Republic 102 players
Venezuela 68 players
Cuba 19
Puerto Rico 18
Mexico 8
Japan 6
Canada 6
Curaçao 5
South Korea 5
Colombia 4
Aruba 1
Australia 1
Brazil 1
Germany 1
Lithuania 1
Netherlands 1
Nicaragua 1
Panama 1
Taiwan 1
U.S. Virgin Islands 1

[aggiesal]

22. This story is not even mentioned on MLB.com. I'm stunned! n/t

[Brother Buzz]

23. Rob Drake #30 is a white-wing asshole

Before he closed his account to the public, he was posting white-wing shit including a claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and a tweet to Hillary Clinton calling her an "F____ liar," demanding the truth about "#benghazzi."

[aggiesal]

24. This guy is in one of the most protected unions ...

the Baseball Umpires Union.
A rookie umpire makes around $180,000 while a crew chief makes around $450,000
Wrap your head around that.
And, it's only for about 7 maybe 8 months a year.

Yet he's support a party that doesn't believe in unions, that MLB would
get rid of them if they had a chance.
He'd probably make around $50,000 if not in this union.

Now maybe he'll make $0, because of his bullheadedness.

[dchill]

28. THIS. GUY. NEEDS. TO. LOSE. HIS. JOB.

For starters.

[VarryOn]

30. I'm sick and tired of athletes and those involved...

In athletics like this guy being political. Every damn thing doesnt need to be politicial or even near-political. Sports is one of my respites from politics.

[ret5hd]

32. That knee thing still got you down, huh?

[VarryOn]

34. Not him particularly. I like him. His kneeling is short, sweet, amd requires no blather.

If I had my druthers, there would be no national anthem before games and certainly no prayers, in the case of high school sports.

Still, I just want to watch a ballgame without the potential of getting pissed. It seems most politics in sports is rather conservative. The NFL doeant seem too bad, thoigh.

[maxrandb]

31. These fucksticks make me laugh

I guarantee you this blowhard has never seen a Carrier Air Wing, or Marine Expeditionary Unit in action.

Hell, he can have a thousand AR 15s and one Tomahawk Missile would still turn him into pink vapor.

I wish I could find it. We used to have a unit patch for these guys...it was the 82ND Chairborne.

[Progressive Jones]

33. I say to this clown Drake, and anyone else planning this little "civil war,

that they should keep something in mind.

Anyone attacking US citizens will be captured, or killed.

The dead among them will be the lucky ones. Just sayin'...