Members of the 2018 World Champion Boston Red Sox will travel to the White House next spring, the latest professional sports team to participate in this truly idiotic ceremony, which has always struck me as similar to those moments (in past centuries) when a returning explorer or heroes of a great battle were granted an audience before the king.
One guesstimate of the date of the Red Sox's visit is Thursday, May 9, which is an off-day after a three-game series in Baltimore.
Sam Kennedy, Red Sox President: "We've accepted and we're going to go .