Dodgers Star Adrian Gonzalez Says No To Trump Hotel

Oct 19, 2016, 00:58
Dodgers Star Adrian Gonzalez Says No To Trump Hotel

If the National League Championship Series heads back to Chicago later this week, Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez just might get another chance to continue his quiet personal boycott of Donald Trump's hotels.

Gonzalez reportedly would not go into details about why he stayed elsewhere, although it seems likely that it had to do with the owner of the hotel.

"I didn't stay there", Gonzalez told the Los Angeles Daily News. "I had my reasons".

Indeed, the Dodgers were in Chicago to play baseball again this past weekend - but they did not stay at the Trump hotel.

Trump's "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" line has been a regular part of his stump speech and he hardly endeared himself to Mexican-American voters when he announced his presidential run previous year.

But even if the Dodgers had been able to work it out at the Trump, at least one player would have found different accommodations.

The 34-year-old was born in San Diego, but grew up in Mexico and represented the country in three World Baseball Classics. Despite being born a USA citizen since birth, Gonzalez has regularly represented Mexico in the World Baseball Classic.

"They're bringing drugs", Trump said of Mexican immigrants. "They're bringing crime. They're rapists".

"I wasn't doing it for publicity, I wasn't doing it for people to look at me or talk about me", he told the Times on Monday. However the team did not stay at the Trump hotel because it requires a non-refundable deposit to hold a block of rooms and it wasn't known until Thursday night that L.A. would be moving on to face Chicago. The Dodgers didn't know if they would actually need the rooms until advancing past Washington in the NLDS.

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