OUCH!
Posted on 04/08/2010 7:53:21 PM PDT by neverdem
Blame Rahm Emanuel for team’s No. 1 fan dropping the ball during interview
What's happening to President Barack Obama, America's No. 1 White Sox fan, is just absolutely terrible.
OK, sure, the poor guy committed a grievous baseball sin. But now he's taking a beating, the kind Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano would give his own catcher, or maybe his manager.
It almost reminds me of the time CBS' Katie Couric sweetly asked Sarah Palin what she liked to read. Palin drew a blank and reporters never let her live it down.
But I say, let's leave the poor president alone. After all, he's a White Sox fan, isn't he?
Obama's troubles started Monday after he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener.
He threw lefty and missed the plate, which wasn't surprising. What was surprising is what happened after he joined announcer Rob Dibble in the booth for some happy talk.
Dibble commented on Obama's hat — a nicely faded black Sox cap — which the president proudly wore on the mound reminding all of us once again of the heroic team from Chicago that has actually won a World Series in the past 100 years.
Dibble asked the fateful question, one so easy that Hawk Harrelson would have called it a "can of corn."
Dibble: "Who was one of your favorite White Sox players growing up?"
Obama: "You know … uh … I thought that … you know … the truth is, that a lot of the Cubs I liked too."
Ouch. The silence between the stammers was excruciating. America's No. 1 Sox fan couldn't name one Sox player.
Not former players like Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk or future Hall of Famer Frank Thomas or manager Ozzie Guillen. The least he could have...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Yep, those were the good ole days! Hey remember CATFISH HUNTER of the A’s...what a nickname eh.
Mr. Obama, only one thing to say: “You are a lying POS!”
This man is rotten to the core!
“Nucular” failure!? :)
Weren’t questions about baseball players sometimes used during WWII to determine if an English speaking military officer was in fact an undercover agent for the Axis? Or was that just a Hollywood screenwriter’s device?
I haven’t followed baseball since I was a kid, but as a Dodgers fan I sure loved watching Steve Garvey and Ron Cey play, and I hated the Cincinnati Reds. It would seem if this President were raised in America, he would have favorite players, even if he didn’t pay any attention to the sport now.
Wait’ll Obama finds out the White Sox are in the American League.
OUCH!
LOL!
Hadn’t seen that in years.
Where did that go? That feeling? Effing liberals, that’s where, dammit.
I saw Rob Dibble play. MAN did that guy have an arm! You could hear the catcher’s mitt popping from the upper decks.
Yep too bad Catfish died so young. Remember Rollie Fingers? I think he still has the ‘stache.
“USA Fears Nobody....let’s play ball!”
Now....THAT, folks, is a man! Brought tears to my eyes....again....
Thanks for the video, 1rudeboy!
A six year old girl throws better.
What man can’t throw 60 feet? or for that matter, at least 65 feet to insure it goes over the plate.
Across the plate rules;
Bull S*** drools!
:D
I remember watching Rollie play outfield in the old timers and celebrities softball game on All Star Weekend a couple years back. I remember thinking it was funny that Fingers was playing while John Kruk, who retired some 10 years later, was a “manager” because he was too out of shape.
I had a funny experience one time as a kid. I lived in Yokosuka, Japan, and my dad was the Security Officer on the base at the time. I think I was maybe 9 years old at the time, so I didn’t have an ID card yet and as such, I couldn’t go off base.
But that didn’t stop me. I used to walk to the part of the base on the water where the fence went right down to the water. It was right near the memorial of the Japanese battleship Mikasa (which Chester Nimitz helped raise funds for it to be restored as a memorial after WWII). I used to crawl under the fence there.
When I went back on the base, I would just walk in through the main gate, because the US Marines guarding the gate figured if you were an American kid and were reentering, you must have had an ID to get out.
Well, one day they grabbed me coming back on the base and asked to see my ID card. I didn’t have one, so the Marines brought me in the guard shack, sat me in a chair, and stood around me with their hands on their holstered .45 caliber model 1911’s.
They asked me who I was, and who my dad was, but I wouldn’t tell them because I thought I would get in trouble. So one of them said “How do we know you aren’t a spy? Who plays Left Field for the St. Louis Cardinals?”
Heh, they asked me about my favorite player, and I could answer that one! So the guy said, “Well, I guess you’re not a spy then...” and they let me go through.
It makes me smile to think of it. Many of those Marines, out of Vietnam and having cushy shore duty guarding the gate and the brig at Yokosuka, stood out there. I am certain now, they knew JUST who I was, since they worked for my dad. Heh, I knew they were just messing with me (or I did, once the guy said “How do we know you aren’t a spy” and they knew I knew, but we all played along...:)
Well, I’ll tell ya, my shoulders are pretty ripped up, and I am not sure I could.
But I will say that if I was put to it for some reason, I would damn well throw that ball sixty feet on target at least once, even if it meant damaging my shoulder more than it is.
That’s what I get for getting into a beer bottle breaking contest as a young man...never could throw after that.
It brought tears to my eyes.
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