“Maybe it is because of Tom’s mother, and we know how close he is with his family. Maybe this is true. But in sports, I’ve become very cynical. I’ve become very skeptical of what people say.

“It’s kind of like the Dustin Johnson situation. Yeah he fell down a flight of steps … is this what really happened? 

“And so now, is it a situation where maybe they’re saying, ‘Well, Tom, this isn’t going to look right. You didn’t go for President Obama. And then, all of sudden two years later, you turn around and you go?’ Maybe it was a situation like that. Whatever the case may be, I just think moving forward for this White House, it’s going to be difficult. Because [take a] baseball team. What’s on a baseball team, Skip? A lot of foreign-born players. Dominicans, Hispanics, Latinos, Cuban-born players. What are they going to do with that?”