Barry doesn’t do anything unless he thinks it’s in his best interest. Obviously he didn’t see anything in it for him.
Sorry baseball fans, he’s just not that into you.
Missouri voted for McCain. ‘Nuf said.
Of course he wouldn’t call. All the players and coaches are in the 1%. Can’t fraternize with the enemy in the class war.
not getting a call from Obama?...don’t see the downside here.
Knowing Barry as we do, I would bet cash money
he’s involved himself in the NBA strike negotiations.
I wish all Presidents would quit calling sports teams. I’d rather not watch my team be forced into a White House publicity stunt just because they won a championship.
Maybe Obummer has seen the polling from Missouri and doesn’t want to waste his time.
Was it one of the bat boys playing a Gibson Guitar? /sarc
You wanted change!
How many Muslims on the roster?
Hmm. I’m sure this had absolutely nothing with Albert Pujols being honored by Glenn Beck at his 8/28 Restoring Honor gathering last year. And nothing to do with the fact that Tony LaRussa introduced Pujols before he received his honor.
Or the fact that many players in the clubhouse are conservatives of faith who frequently listen to Beck’s show.
Bush’s Fault!
Ubama would be more interested in the Buzkashi World Series.
Tony, you ain’t a black man. Get over it. This President is a racist.
LaRussa should consider him self lucky. Just who in their right mind would want to talk to nobama?
Considering how 0bama throws a baseball, this does not surprise me
Weird you’d think Obama would have ran to the phone being that george Bush used to run the rangers, then again, well he was probably so po’ed a cracker won( there I said it) I mean he’s been angry since he had to do the bear summit and couldn’t think of ONE SINGLE ballplyers who was on the White Sox let alone find home plate .
Here’s my take on it.
Being President is hard, but there are parts of the job that as an American you’d think you’d take some pleasure in. Tonight, all over America for example, hundreds of college footbal games are being played.
If you consider the money, effort, and talent represented by that effort, and then consider that no other country in the world could afford the luxury of such a thing, then you realize it is just a symptom of the miracle that is the American Experiment.
Baseball is an American game, and its been embraced by the world. A game predicated on the fallibility of its players, where a success rate of 34 percent is considered exceptional.
This year, two teams representing the heart of America, Missouri and Texas, played the Fall Classic to seven games. Game 6 went 11 innnings and will go down as one of the great game 6s in history.
As President, to take a minute to call the St. Louis Cardinals to congratulate the team in capturing one of the most difficult prizes in all of sports is simply a missed blessing in an unbelievably tough job.
You’d think one would savor such things. A glass of bourbon with senior staff gathered around the set right around the seventh inning. Your people getting the line ready. Small bets back and forth and maybe a bowl of popcorn. The last pitch, pandemonium, and senior staff goes home perhaps or stays for a nightcap. Your staff lets you know when, and you make the call.
Hell, he could have done it so that the press could pick it up and score some cheap political non-partisan publicity.
I, for one, pity the savage for his lack of fundamental appreciation for something so flawed and beautiful as baseball. Some men cannot be taught. They are doomed to learn only through their experiences, and for such men there is precious little margin.
The tragedy is that because he’s the leader of the Free World, we are all now codependents.
Truman was right. The shit you bring into the place stays with the next man, and its your job to see that it stays clean. You owe him that much, since each President realizes only after he takes office how difficult the job actually is.