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Cards Snubbed By Obama? No Traditional White House Call Following Game 7 Win
CBS (St. Louis) ^ | 11/4/11 | Charlie Brennan, Brett Blume

Posted on 11/04/2011 5:38:07 PM PDT by Nachum

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Was President Barack Obama too busy watching the “Operation Repo” marathon or something else last Friday night?

When KMOX host Charlie Brennan asked now-retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa how the traditional call of congratulations from the White House went, La Russa suddenly realized that…it never happened.

“That’s a good point, I hadn’t really even thought about that,” replied a surprised-sounding La Russa, who can be forgiven for having a few other things on his mind over the past week. “As we were getting into the World Series we had a call from the White House to make sure they had the correct number for my office.”

But as the wild, champagne-drenched celebration of the team’s 11th World Series title was going on in the locker room, that phone never rang.

(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: call; cardinals; cards; missouri; obama; snubbed; stlouis; stlouiscardinals; tonylarussa
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To: upbeat5
Barry's favorite Sox players? Probably Michael Jordon and Ernie Banks.
21 posted on 11/04/2011 5:59:32 PM PDT by JPG (The loons at OWS will soon be at each others throats.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Supposed white sox fan, remember when they asked who is favorite White Sox was and he couldn’t answer, then he said that he actually was an Oakland As fan too? This guy is not a sports fan or a Chicagoan, he’s a foreign communist, look at my tag line. And White Sox fans don’t care about the Cardinals that’s Cubs stuff, actually we like it when they beat the piss out of them. :P


22 posted on 11/04/2011 6:01:25 PM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: JPG

What about Ollie Matson?


23 posted on 11/04/2011 6:09:54 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Nachum

I heard Obama was busy after the game...allegedly sexually harassing the kitchen staff and those guys were not happy in that kitchen.


24 posted on 11/04/2011 6:15:14 PM PDT by oust the louse (Obama approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.)
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To: Nachum
Didn't some precincts in St Louis vote 115% for Hussein? You'd think he'd show some appreciation.
25 posted on 11/04/2011 6:23:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: mylife

Yes, and it is for sure that if the Rangers had won the series there definitely would not have been any phone call! Obama is a petty, petty man.


26 posted on 11/04/2011 6:24:27 PM PDT by wayoverthehill
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To: GoCards

LOl that gives me faith that MO will turn red exactly next year. I’m happy for LaRussa, especially him being a Pubbie’ and anti-amnesty. Good luck Tony.


27 posted on 11/04/2011 6:24:53 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO FUBHO FK BARAK 2012)
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To: wayoverthehill

Indeed.


28 posted on 11/04/2011 6:26:25 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

He’s no Cubs fan. He is from the South Side. One can’t live on the south side and be a Cubs fan. It is an unwritten law.

Just like Northsiders can’t be Sox fans - or if they are closet Sox fans they have to hide it.


29 posted on 11/04/2011 6:27:06 PM PDT by wayoverthehill
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To: mylife
You would have to be an American to appreciate this benign little tradition. Obama obviously does not qualify.
30 posted on 11/04/2011 6:27:13 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: upbeat5
He also didn't know the name of the park they played in. Remember "Kaminsky Park?"
31 posted on 11/04/2011 6:30:34 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Nachum

Not a lot of love between Chicago and St Louis. The baseball teams have not enjoyed the same level of success over the last century.


32 posted on 11/04/2011 6:33:55 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Nachum

Dick Obama say, “Screw all American tradition!”


33 posted on 11/04/2011 6:37:00 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: AGreatPer
He will get the St. Louis vote no matter what.

He simply said, scrw them.

St Louis is a blue city.

The living and the dead vote will be 70% + for 0bama even if 0bama said FU Cards tomorrow.

34 posted on 11/04/2011 6:46:13 PM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: upbeat5
Yes Yes Yes

The Kenyan says he can recite the Muslim call to prayer, but could not name ONE Chicago White Sox player.

35 posted on 11/04/2011 6:49:05 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: GoCards

36 posted on 11/04/2011 6:55:03 PM PDT by mikrofon (TOTUS-C)
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To: erod

I believe Obama also said Comisky Field instead of Park.

What a phoney.


37 posted on 11/04/2011 6:57:32 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: musicman

He makes me sick to my stomach!


38 posted on 11/04/2011 7:00:52 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Third Person
Correction to my earler post... O-idiot said Cominskey Field instead of Comiskey Park.
39 posted on 11/04/2011 7:07:44 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: katiedidit1

Didn’t Obozo sneak out of town the day Glenn Beck’s rally came to Washington?


40 posted on 11/04/2011 7:09:12 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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