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July 14th, 2009
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Nice to have a president who isn’t afraid to face the mood of the crowd. Bush couldn’t go out on the field because the derision from the stands was overwhelming.
Maybe Frank can tell us why baseball crowds have a liberal bias.
terrible camera angle
Repack, are you kidding?!? Bush threw out at least 6 pitches while in office, and in fact threw out another one just a couple of months ago.
Note that he also shook the cart driver’s hand, not just acknowledging the aged superstar. Such little things speak volumes.
Bush threw out the Texas Rangers, too. Such a gifted businessman.
It would also help if Obama knew the rules (ESPN just showed him palling around with Mark Buherle in the clubhose pregame saying something to the effecT of “nice to see the White Sox be represented.”
hey genius, every team is REQUIRED to be represented. And that rule is even older than John McCain!!
hey genius, every team is REQUIRED to be represented
Which doesn’t lessen the fact that it’s nice to see your hometown team represented (I’m from Pittsburgh so I’ve been painfully aware of this for the last 17 years).
Anyhow, yeah, I bet GWB knew that rule. Too bad he didn’t know much else.
I’d say Fox Sports did him a favor by not showing the flight of the ball and it barely making it to Pujols, who had to step forward and scoop it just to keep it from hitting the dirt.
Sarah Palin could throw harder.
Compare and contrast the strike thrown by by one George W. Bush to Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium for Game 3 of the 2001 World Series.
President Bush Visits Yankee Stadium
Dennis – The problem is that Bush probably practiced his pitch day and night for weeks to bolster his faux macho image (for one example see his hilarious use of the flight suit cinched to give an artificially enhanced appearance to his “package” while walking in front of cameras – REAL pilots unsnap those straps as soon as they land).
As usual, Bush did not do the job he was elected to do, but worked real hard to look like a Texas cowboy. A “Texas cowboy” raised in new England who went to exclusive northeastern prep schools and ivy league northeastern colleges who is afraid of horses – riiiiight.
Somewhat of a wimpy, dorky throw, no?
I like how everyone in attendance, that wasn’t playing, was in jackets. The dork shows up in jeans and sneakers. What a class act!
Eh Fred. Can I provide a bit of news?
Bush isn’t President anymore. Shocking eh?
Not the best celebrity throw, but he shook everybody’s hand and stuck to his guns as a Sox fan; most other celebrities would have come out wearing Yankees gear.
Constant pettiness by individuals who seem to have deep seated issues. What difference does it make if he wasn’t aware of the rule? Many people are not aware of the selection process simply because the mlb level is the only level of baseball, that select all-star teams, in this fashion! If it was simply about THE BEST being selected for each side…you would hear alot of moaning and groaning about fairness and representation for all teams…Again!
Compare and contrast the strike thrown by by one George W. Bush to Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium for Game 3 of the 2001 World Series.
GWB’s finest moment. Too bad it was all downhill from there.
SaveFarris, that is a good name for you because I am here to help you…so hold on to my cape as I rescue you during this moment of shallowness! The rule is not older than McCain…it changed in 1957! In 1957 the reds whole team was almost selected but the commissioner (Frank Fritch) replaced 2 of them and put Willie Mays and Hank Aaron on the team because he knew who the best qualified individuals were out of all the selections he could have made, just like the best we have for President!:)
John McCain was born in 1936 the rule changed in 1957…for those who are not aware…Haters!
Awesome.
“Somewhat of a wimpy, dorky throw, no?
I like how everyone in attendance, that wasn’t playing, was in jackets. The dork shows up in jeans and sneakers. What a class act!”
What a sad pitiful little man you are. Bet the girls just flock about you like seagulls to carrion, hmm?
Yeah, Wilbur, the one time liberals claim they were all behind him in unified support.
Riiiiight.
Unified support means they weren’t bashing the shit out of him and running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off at every opportunity, whether real or imagined. One brief shining moment in the history of liberalism.
‘Repack, are you kidding?!? Bush threw out at least 6 pitches while in office, and in fact threw out another one just a couple of months ago.’
Not surprising, since he had so much practice throwing out the rule of law, the Constitution and common decency.
Batter up!
‘Sarah Palin could throw harder.’
No kidding; she’s been hurling spitballs since she came on the national scene.
‘Bush isn’t President anymore. Shocking eh?’
Bush WAS President?
Jesus, that is shocking.
‘Unified support means they weren’t bashing the shit out of him and running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off at every opportunity, whether real or imagined. One brief shining moment in the history of liberalism.’
Uhhh, remind us again of which ex VP was guaranteeing that voting for Obama meant the certainty of America being attacked a la 9/11?
I thought the GOP was weaning itself off of delusional paranoia after Nixon; how reassuring that in the GOP, everything old is new again.
Except for vision, policy and improving the country.
Unified support means they weren’t bashing the shit out of him and running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off at every opportunity, whether real or imagined.
Britney’s right! Liberals should have just supported our President in every decision he made, whether their heads were really cut off or they just imagined it.
You go, Grrl!
Unified support means they weren’t bashing the shit out of him and running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off at every opportunity,
Sounds like you lot since, oh, January 20.
The current VP said it too. Must be VP thing, who knows?
Maybe Frank can tell us why baseball crowds have a liberal bias.
Maybe Repack can provide us with one example — just ONE example — of Pres Bush’s failing to appear in public because “the derision from the [public] [would have been] overwhelming”.
Just one.
Okay I’ll say it, George W. Bush threw the ball better than Obama. Sadly, George W. Bush was a fucking disaster of a President and not a baseball pitcher.
jrfunenstein,
Joe Biden said: “Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Dick Cheney said, in marked contrast “”I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11,” …
“I think that’s a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles. President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack.”
Compare and contrast. Which of these two statements sounds more like a guarantee to you?
I swear, some of you guys bring less heat than an Obama fastball.
Actually, Obama threw it much better than John Kerry. If you want to see a fucking disaster, look up that video. Obama actually did ok with the pitch all things considered, and he was pretty cool talking to Tim McCarver and Joe Buck. And Obama last summer drew a crowd of a 100,000 people just across the street from where he was last night, which was pretty impressive.
Note that he also shook the cart driver’s hand, not just acknowledging the aged superstar. Such little things speak volumes.
I keep trying to tell you righties, he’s a genuinely nice guy.
Okay I’ll say it, George W. Bush threw the ball better than Obama. Sadly, George W. Bush was a fucking disaster of a President and not a baseball pitcher.
Hear, hear. Good thing we don’t use baseball as a metric for choosing a Chief Executive. Though I wouldn’t mind seeing Barack v. McCain on a basketball court.
“Note that he also shook the cart driver’s hand, not just acknowledging the aged superstar. Such little things speak volumes”
Yeah, take a look at that guy. He looks away when O reaches the cart and then ‘grudgingly’ shakes his hand.
The guy looks real enthused! HA HA HA!
joaquin, there are few things more pathetic than trying to cover up spite and envy with a shit-eating cackle.
Spite and envy! Of whom, Hopey/Changey? PSSSSFT! Come on Wilbur learn to laugh. It’s good for you.
The guy looks real enthused! HA HA HA!
Maybe the guy isn’t too jazzed that a non-White (i.e., non Real American) was legitimately elected President (and by a decent margin). Maybe he’s, you know, a modern Republican.
Kinda speaks for itself, don’t it?
Come on Wilbur learn to laugh. It’s good for you.
Put up some Cut-and-Run Sarah, some Quittah from Wasilla, and we will.
Oh, that’s right. We’re AFRAID of her. By that logic, you must be terrified of Obama, Joker. Shaking in your pee-damp pants.
“Maybe the guy isn’t too jazzed that a non-White (i.e., non Real American) was legitimately elected President (and by a decent margin). Maybe he’s, you know, a modern Republican”
Ah yes Indeed, throw the race card when all hope is lost. Makes for a nice finishing touch.
Your predictability is……………predictable. *YAWN*
Oh, I almost forgot. Doesn’t Obama look like Erkel in that clip?
He even has those Mama jeans on.
What a dolt.
The reason he was wearing a jacket, is because he had a bulletproof vest on underneath, dumbass.
Why did he have to wear one? Oh, I dunno, maybe because of the constant death threats from limpdick racist losers on a daily basis.
“My wife thinks I’m cute in the White Sox jacket,” Obama later told Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth in a conversation that seemed very loose and free-flowing instead of scripted. “I’m not a Cubs hater, I’m not one of those guys. I just don’t root for them, that’s all.”
That seals it for me. Hopey/Changey is a flat-out dork.
Never said he wasn’t, Jokaer. For some folks, that’s part of his appeal.
“What a dolt.”
Ah yes, leave it to Andrew “black studies intelligentsia crowd” Breitbart to nitpick for verbal gaffes. Apparently, aping a language of your temporary southern residence with the syntax of a retarded chipmunk is the standard to uphold.
Thank heavens the 2012 Presidential election will be based on throwing a baseball and knowledge of sports trivia. I’d hate to think it was based on anything resembling legitimate reasons.
In related news, I hope we start picking Olympic winners based on their political beliefs and not their physical prowess.
You people fail to realize that Obama carries on the image of an athlete. He is a self proclaimed sports fanatic and he is always talking about playing basketball or some other sport. When you give yourself that image and throw a ball like that its laughable. There are 9 year old girls who could have done better. He is a poser and far from athletic as the ball barely reached the plate. Pujols snatched that ball about 2 feet in front of the plate. As far as Bush being a bad president we are only months into the new administration and things are going down hill quick. IN fact Obamas approval rating is dropping almost as fast as his pitch.
“There are 9 year old girls who could have done better.”
And you speak from this experience how?
As far as Bush being a bad president we are only months into the new administration and things are going down hill quick. IN fact Obamas approval rating is dropping almost as fast as his pitch.
Shenanigans!
“There are 9 year old girls who could have done better.”
I’ve seen 9 year old girls do amazing things. Throwing a baseball better than Obama did wouldn’t really be all that unusual for a young girl (actually, most girls play softball, a much bigger ball). It’s no big deal to me if Obama never played baseball, but there are girls at that age that can throw with a more full arm type throw than that if taught the mechanics properly. Obama is in great shape and was a good hoops player, but his throw was more of an overhead basketball type toss than a baseball pitch. What looked goofy was the wind-up, because nothing about his wind-up added any momentum to the throw, which was really all just with his wrists.
But to your question, girls at nine years old are at very little disadvantage to boys when it comes to throwing a ball if taught the mechanics and they have the athletic interest. A lot of times they have much better temperament for learning the mechanics, too.
Perhaps Obama saw this as what it really is; not a showcase of why he didn’t get called up to the bigs, but a fucking photo -op and a meaningless gesture.
Good lord, the things y’all can get riled up about.
So the conservative contribution to the national discourse has now devolved to, “Obammy throws like a girl! Yah! Yah!”?
Good to know.
It’s a blog post about Obammy throwing out the first pitch, Quibbie. It’s hardly national discourse. What else is there to discuss other than his delivery, that some people in the crowd cheered and some booed?
And I think several of us have argued that girls throw better than he does, not that he throws like a girl.
Actually, Quibbie, no one’s talked about his ‘Mom Jeans’ here yet. If you want to change the national discourse of this blog thread, we could go that route.
What else is there to discuss other than his delivery, that some people in the crowd cheered and some booed?
That’s pretty much what has happened every other year!
To bad they could not show the ball miss the mark, like most of his policies. Pray for us.
I guess in Indonesia they don’t have baseballs,
what does that mean?
how can anyone compare him to a girl, not fare for girls. Maybe a lame duck would have been better