See that little spot right on the South Side of Chicago? That's the extent of the Pale Hose fanbase. That and North Minneapolis.
Posted on 04/07/2010 3:51:12 AM PDT by ninonitti
Barack Obama used to live in Somerville - I wonder if he ever went to Fenway Park [map], or, as he might put it, Funway Park.
Once again, the president has tried to pass himself off as a regular guy, a Joe Sixpack who likes nothing better than to crack open a Bud and listen to a game from . . . Cuminski Park.
Cuminski . . . rhymes with Alinsky. As in “Saul Alinsky.”
Yes, that’s right, the president talked about “Cuminski” Park again Monday at the Washington Nationals’ home opener, at which he threw out the first pitch in a semi-girly-man lefty toss.
Then he went up into the broadcast booth and pretended to be a baseball fan - a manly man.
Of course, no one expects Barack Obama to really know anything. We understand, all too well, exactly how he got through Columbia and Harvard Law. He had certain . . . intangibles, shall we say.
But now he pretends to be a rabid White Sox fan. Which led the announcer to a natural follow-up question: “Who was one of your favorite White Sox players growing up?”
All dialogue guaranteed verbatim:
“You know uh I I thought that uh you know the truth is that, a lot of the Cubs I like too uh but uh I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago . . .”
I’ve never been a White Sox fan. But I can name plenty of Pale Hose, starting with Nellie Fox and Early Wynn. Minnie Minoso.
We know Obama knows nothing about history, or sports, or anything, basically. But how about movies? “Field of Dreams”? “Eight Men Out”? Ever hear of Shoeless Joe Jackson - I’ll give you a hint, Mr. President. He was a typical white person.
“-because I uh you know I was uh growing up in Hawaii so so I ended up uh an Oakland A’s fan.”
Comes the recurring question: name one. I’ll give you some clues - Reggie, Vida, Sal, Gene, Rollie.
“But when I moved to Chicago I was livin’ close to what was then Cuminski Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love and the nice thing about the Sox is it’s real blue-collar baseball.”
Whatever that is. As bad as John Kerry was, with “Manny Ortez” and his belief that baseball is a lot like tennis - “Detroit 2, Red Sox [team stats] 5,” as he would say - at least he could name some players.
But this incident Monday reminds me of one of those old World War II POW movies, where Bill Holden and the boys in Stalag 17 catch the Nazi spy by asking him how many home runs Babe Ruth hit in 1927.
I’m sure, though, that Barack does know some baseball. Anybody know who batted clean-up for the Nairobi Al Qaedas in 1973?
Funny, I haven't watched baseball in thirty years, but I can still remember the players I watched as a kid-- I can remember who played nearly every position on the team I followed in the late 1970s. I suspect for a lot of people (even non-sport fans as adults, like me) those childhood baseball memories are particularly vivid.
See that little spot right on the South Side of Chicago? That's the extent of the Pale Hose fanbase. That and North Minneapolis.
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