Take Him Out To The Ball Game

Well, he's a good sport about it, but Obama still can't deliver a decent first pitch.  We also discover he can't name any players from his adopted team, the ChiSox, although he enjoyed going to "Cominskey" Park.  Cominterm?  Alinsky?

We look forward to the great "Name That Player" showdown between Barack and Hillary, as each are challenged to identify former White Sox and Yankees greats and not-so-greats.  Maybe that could work in a "Dead or Canadian" format: Tom Tresh, Yankees or Sox?  Frank Thomas, Yankees or Sox?  Ron Blomberg, Yankees or Sox (Ah hah!)

Comments

[Danube of Thought]

Sorry to discover that Tresh is dead.

[peter]

Ron Blomberg, forever in the record books as the first designated hitter. Also a great guy. Also, a rarity for the New York Yankees, a Jewish ballplayer. Ah, to be a seventies Yankee fan again.

[Jim in Bingo]

Don't forget John Kerry's favorite Red Sawk -- Manny Ortiz.

(To be fair to the Unicorn Rider however, lots of folks in Chicago called it Cominskey, as they similarly refer to Soldiers' Field, and pronounce Goethe street phonetically -- there was a whole classic Second City busdriver skit about this.)

[peter]

Ron Blomberg got that first dh appearance exactly 37 years ago today-- April 6, 1973. Where does the time go?

[hit and run]

Like the unmanly way in which he carried himself on the baseball field yesterday,"Cominskey" was http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/07/boo-me-in-st-louis.html>an encore performance,though at least this time he got "Park" right instead of "Field". That's how quick a learner this man is.

[Porchlight]

Well, he's a good sport about it

He is? I thought he was a poor sport - insisting that he'd done better in practice, and that he'd "clean up" if given a whole inning. Get a sense of humor, dude.

And the insistence on putting on the Sox cap. And the fist pump after the carpy throw. So lame. His advisors really should tell him he can't do this stuff if he's going to do it so poorly.

[Dave (in MA)]

Don't forget John Kerry's favorite Red Sawk -- Manny Ortiz.

Actually it was worse than that. He couldn't even remember the names of the two guys he was combining in his mind. He said "Manny Ortez". He could probably tell you all about his favorite polo players and yachtsmen, however.

[Extraneus]

He put on the cap to give the boos a baseball excuse, just like he did last time with the jacket.

[Porchlight]

He put on the cap to give the boos a baseball excuse, just like he did last time with the jacket.

I bet you are right.

[Jane]

I loved the boos.

Loved loved loved them.

[Illinoise]

"...there was a whole classic Second City busdriver skit about this"

Clip of skit LUN. Not original from way back, but it's more recent from Second City 50th anniversary show.

[Captain Hate]

His advisors really should tell him he can't do this stuff if he's going to do it so poorly.

What exactly does he do well other than act like a complete jerk?

[Clarice]

yup,porch--on all counts.

[Thomas Collins]

He should stick to bowling.

[Extraneus]

What is it about this thread that merits, not one, but two ads for CougerLife.com (tag line: "They're all grown up")?

[jean]

For a real miss me yet moment go watch W throw out the 1st pitch at Yankee stadium.Doesn't Bob Seegers LIKE A ROCK come to mind

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane, there was booing? I guess I couldn't hear them over my own boos.

[drjohn]

"Cominskey"

No, he pronounced it "Comradinsky Park."

[Clarice]

Remember when Bush threw that ball no one was certain that his life was not in danger.

A little fun--IBD has collected all the things attributed to global warming. (when, oh when, will they add the heartbreak of psoriasis?)

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=529363

[PD]

Just further evidence of what JOMers already know: There is no subject on which Obama is not an utter fraud.

[Neo]

'Weekend at Bernie's' redux
Life imitates art.

[centralcal]

Oh, great, Tom Coburn tells a townhall meeting what a nice lady Nancy Pelosi is. Takes a few pot shots at Fox News. What is wrong with our Senators?

[narciso the harpoon]

You know Stalin would have shot some one as fulsome in praise as Remnick's paen to Obama
and Howard Feinman's latest entry in the LUN

[Pagar]

" What is wrong with our Senators?"
Any more one almost expects verbal garbage from the leftist. When it comes from one that seemed to be OK on the right, it feels much worse. What could possibly have convinced Tom Coburn that he needed to say such things?

[Rob Crawford]

What exactly does he do well other than act like a complete jerk?

Act like a spoiled brat?

[Old Lurker]

"(when, oh when, will they add the heartbreak of psoriasis?)"

Or E.D.

Why, I saw on TV that it got so hot some couples moved their twin bathtubs out into the fields and beaches.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

What I can't figure out is what's romantic about twin bathtubs?

[macphisto]

the closest they can come under FCC regs to showing 2 naked people.

[Jane]

Why, I saw on TV that it got so hot some couples moved their twin bathtubs out into the fields and beaches.

I know. That is just so weird.

BTW OL - are you coming into DC to see us next week?

[centralcal]

Ben Smith has a piece about Deval Patrick that begins:

"The White House is looking to every weapon in its arsenal to help Patrick win a second term."

If the weapons in the arsenal are only Obama and more Obama, that should just about guarantee a loss for Deval.

[narciso the harpoon]

Their aggressive level of delusion, is amusing up to a point, are they not aware he is Obama's beta test

[Clarice]

Congrats, Chaco--another instalaunch!

[Jane]

I'd like to read that Centralcal, where is it?

[Jane]

I found it.

[Buford Gooch]

So share it. I still don't know where it is.

[Jane]

The MA race is pretty interesting. I'm going to a fundraiser for Charlie Baker tomorrow night. He should win the race easily - except it's still Massachusetts even after Scott Brown.

The biggest issue right now is Tim Cahill, state treasurer, democrat running as an independent. He is the guy that announced last week that Romenycare is bankrupting MA.

The other issue is Deval Patrick's charm offensive. I saw something yesterday that said:

"Patrick is making the rounds doing what he did to win the last election - pouring on the charm."

He stopped by the Howie Carr show last week and was indeed charming. OTOH the people who crossed the aisle to vote for SCott Brown were as angry at Obama as they were at Coakley, and I suspect that hasn't changed.

Time will tell.

[Clarice]

I love this:

[DrJ]

Or E.D.

Endocrine disruptors?

/ducks/

[Jack is Back!]

I saw the pitch in slo-mo and he has terrible, I mean girlie-man terrible, mechanics. My 6 year old has a better motion and he doesn't use a hill to throw off of. What's with the recock after he takes his arm back? Its almost as if he is not a natural lefty but rather someone who was forced to do everything lefty. Is this a Kenyan taboo to be right-handed? I know its not an Indonesian one since I lived there for 2 years.

And what is it now with these ex-jocks like Kellog and the announcers for the BBall game being so damn over complementary and over gracious to this self-absorbed idiot of a man. He, and his voice, are becoming more grating than my parmesan cheese microplane!

[Jane]

That's great Clarice.

JIB - I can throw better than the President - and I'm a girl and old.

[Old Lurker]

Jane, yes, for one of the events. I will be involved in a two day board thing the 14th and 15th, but have worked out with Clarice a date for meeting you all.

Can't wait.

[Sue]

weapon in its arsenal

I see they can use metaphors that invoke images of violence.

[Captain Hate]

And what is it now with these ex-jocks like Kellog and the announcers for the BBall game being so damn over complementary and over gracious to this self-absorbed idiot of a man.

If you guys don't stop bringing up Kellogg's name, I'm gonna have to mention about how he took money under the table when he played for O$U by selling insurance policies to well-heeled Clodumbus boosters that nobody seemed to want to provide insurance coverage to prior to that.

And I don't want to do that...

[Sue]

House Democrats plan to revive the political ghost of former President George W. Bush in their bid to retain the majority this fall, according to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the head of the party’s re-election efforts.

I feel like saying "bring it on". Bush can beat you guys this time around.

[Old Lurker]

"according to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the head of the party’s re-election efforts"

Another gift from my state of Maryland...and in fact my own district on that guy.

[Rob Crawford]

And what is it now with these ex-jocks like Kellog and the announcers for the BBall game being so damn over complementary and over gracious to this self-absorbed idiot of a man.

They're avoiding committing lese majeste.

[Janet]

What kills me about the baseball thing is the lie. He says he is a White Sox fan and can't name one...He is a big liar. It is alright if he doesn't know anything about baseball...just admit it. He is just a big old phony, grifter, liar.

LUN is the link to the slow motion shot...and a comment -
Analysis of Obama's pitch is similar to his election...

1.-He walks about and everybody thinks he's rooting for the home team, that is until he gets on the mound and you find out his favorite team is someone else...
2.-He doesn't have any experience throwing a pitch, but we're gonna put him on the mound anyway..
3.-Everybody in the country thinks he's gonna throw right down the middle and he throws it hard left...
4.-After going hard left, he looks up at the crowd and expects everyone in that stadium to still cheer for him.....

[Clarice]

Another administration outing--this time deliberate, coordinated and of a real undercover CIA operative and---crickets---
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/06/a-sinking-ship-of-state/>Where are Kristoff and Corn when you need them?

[Janet]

...and LUN the big White Sox fan lie. This poor blogger is being accused of being a homosexual in the comments for reporting this!
Ha, those Obama voters are something.

[Rob Crawford]

Off topic: the second email quoted in the LUN is mine.

There's so much I'm ticked off about today, I don't want to list it all.

[Clarice]

An excellent email, Rob. I, too, thought that editorial was a p.o.s., a pure white toga play.

And for more proof of bias, here's Taranto BOTW on the topic of this thread.
[quote]Here's how the Associated Press reported President Obama's throwing out the first pitch at yesterday's Montreal Expos game:
In front of thousands of fans, President Barack Obama strolled to the pitcher's mound and tossed a baseball to Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, officially launching the team's baseball season.
The setting - freshly cut grass, a brilliant sun and clear skies - was a picture-postcard quality introduction to a new Major League Baseball season. And the lanky Obama, appearing in khakis and a Washington Nationals warmup jacket, was the star attraction for a moment.
Here's how the AP reported the same story two years ago:
President Bush had enough to worry about--like not flubbing the first pitch in front of a crowd that might not exactly be his biggest fans anyway.
So before the game, when a couple of Atlanta Braves gave him a team jersey and suggested he wear it to throw out the first pitch at Nationals Park, Bush laughed. Uh, no thanks, guys. Might as well put on a sign that says "Boo me."
We suppose we should count our blessings: The AP makes it so easy to spot its bias. On the other hand, think of how much better its journalism would be if the bias were limited to fluff stories like this one.[/quote]

[Clarice]

Sorrry!

I forgot the /

[Clarice]

HELP

[jean]

Clarie..NRO has video of Peter Galbraith accusing Karzai of being a druggy.

[centralcal]

Excellent email, Rob Crawford.

I am ticked off, too. Still can't get over Tom Coburn's remarks at his townhall.

[Clarice]

Yes--well, that seems improvident, but my point is that the Administration is angry at Karzai so they retaliated by outing a CIA agent and thereby really jeopardizing his life, Karzai's, other agents and US troops for whos benefit the CIA is operating there.

[Janet]

LUN is an oldie but goodie from Doug Ross from 2009. Bush vs. Obama pitch analysis.

[jean]

I was thinking maybe Galbraith is caring the administrations water and trying to do more harm to Karzai.

[Clarice]

He may--he's already shown to be unscrupulous with his petro deal in Iraq. But don't nibble at ankles, kick in the nuts--and the nuts is the deliberate outng but what appears to have been several administration figures.

[narciso the harpoon]

True, and what are we always told about how Pashtuns are very touchy about messing with their family, I believe Holbrooke reiterated
that point, earlier this year

[Danube of Thought]

On days like this we can all take comfort from the fact that David Shuster appears to have received a harsher sentence than James O'Keefe.

[Clarice]

**outing by what appears***

[Clarice]

A fab video
http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/3257/Parody-Video-You-Picked-a-Fine-Time-to-Lead-Us-Barack>You picked a fine time to lead us Barack

[Danube of Thought]

Also, come cause for good cheer on the future of Obamacare.

[centralcal]

LOL, DoT. Shuster has always been a slimy schmuck - I for one am enjoying his humiliation.

[Janet]

Clarice, great video.

[Danube of Thought]

The real healthcare fiasco is just beginning.

[laura]

Clarice,
What a great video, sounds like a song for tax day.

[jean]

Did anyone see Haley Babour response to M. Steele?Hot Air has it.I just wish Haley didn't look and sound like Boss Hog.

[Captain Hate]

Shuster has always been a slimy schmuck - I for one am enjoying his humiliation.

Being at MessNBC and auditioning at CNN is like changing circles of Hell. Shuster was too stupid to figure out what he was dealing with when he got spanked for the innocuous comments about Slick and Muffer "pimping Chelsea out". It was a bad choice of terms though; no self respecting mack would ever have something looking like Chelsea ruining his brand.

[bunkberbuster]

Obama makes clear in the interview that he takes a light-hearted approach to baseball fandom.
The "lie" allegation just shows how desperate the wingnutosphere is for grist...anything will do, apparently...

[Clarice]

DoT I wrote a long piece for Pajamas Media along the same lines this weekend. They held it until tomorrow..

[Melinda Romanoff]

BBBBBBer-

The lie is that he's from Hyde Park, not the South Side of Chicago.

If you knew what that meant, you would know the difference, and the lie that he posed.

And I'm related to Cub fans.

And yes, it was an obvious lie, to a Chicagoan.

Nice try.

Pick another subject.

[PD]

Obama makes clear in the interview that he takes a light-hearted approach to baseball fandom.

Lighthearted, as in, completely unable to answer the simplest question that even the most casual fan would be able to answer?

If he's going to pretend to be a baseball fan, he needs to make it less obvious that he is such a complete, obvious, thoroughgoing, utter, absolute fraud.

[Rob Crawford]

An excellent email, Rob. I, too, thought that editorial was a p.o.s., a pure white toga play.

"White toga" is a kind way to put it. I still describe it as the "conservative cringe". The minute a leftist starts throwing around accusations of racism, too many conservatives hunch their shoulders and start simpering "not me, it was them". When the evidence is so clearly NO ONE, the proper response is to say, "um, no, you've given no such evidence, and I'm not going to believe your charge without evidence". If there is evidence, CONDEMN THE GUILTY AND NOT ONE MORE PERSON. That jerk down in Texas who likes to paint himself as some sort of Tea Party head-honcho despite having nothing to do with the organizing; condemn him, condemn the press for trying to make him into the poster child -- don't condemn the people who disown him try to get rid of him!

I saw a piece on some site recently where the author said conservatives and libertarians have to atone somehow for segregationists using the language of states' rights before we can argue from the same concept. Why? I never made an argument for segregation on any grounds, let alone states' rights. Why am I responsible for the arguments made by other people, primarily decades before I was born?

Why, especially, should I be responsible for these arguments when the left makes arguments indistinguishable from the collectivist arguments that led to the biggest atrocities of the 20th century. We have a Supreme Court justice stating that she believes Roe v. Wade was decided on the basis of eugenics -- and after a round of (honestly) shocked gasps from the right, the matter is ignored. Why aren't they required to cleanse their arguments in favor of Roe v. Wade of the taint of eugenics?

[Danube of Thought]

Great to see the dolt BB is back again, leading with his chin as always. If he didn't show up from time to time we'd have to invent him.

[Ronald Reagan]

The Tea Party does us proud:

Yes, Bill Ves, calling from (inaudible) I ain't gonna get no health insurance, tell that son of a bitch that, I ain't getting the damned health insurance. That goddamned nigger, don't tell me I gotta get some goddamned health insurance. I ain't paying no goddamned fine. Tell that nigger he can come put my ass in jail if he don't like it. Goddamn worthless nigger, and all them other niggers that voted for him. That nigger Obama and them white trash honkies that voted for that damned communist, socialist stuff. Dumb motherfuckers, Goddamn! I ain't getting the goddamned mandatory health insurance from some bitch motherfuckers! Goddamn bunch of nigger,white trash honkies, sone of a bitch communist who voted for this shit. I didn't go fight in no goddamned wart so I could be forced to do something I don'[t want to do. So fuck all y'all niggers. Fuck you John Lewis, you goddamned worthless, communist nigger.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/working-themselves-into-frenzy.html

[Melinda Romanoff]

RR-

Next time use Caps Lock, everyone responds to Caps Lock more better.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Oh, and take the leftist racism elsewhere.

[Ronald Reagan]

Next time use Caps Lock, everyone responds to Caps Lock more better.

So the nigger stuff was fine, it was just the bold tag that went beyond acceptable decorum.

Good to know.

[susanne]

RR
Fuck off.

[Ronald Reagan]

Oh, and take the leftist racism elsewhere.

I would, but with all the available space taken up by the right's racism the rental costs have gone through the roof.

So I thought I'd just dump it here for the time being.

Maybe you could free up some room by pulling some out of storage; Fox is more than happy to unload it on their gullible right-wing audience. Probably even pay you for it; you could turn a nice profit. They eat that shit up over there.

[Clarice]

Pistolas at six and nine o'clock. DUCK

[Rob Crawford]

You're still a coward, 'cleo.

[Ronald Reagan]

Fuck off.

Most ladies learn that language from blowing truckers at long-haul rest stops.

But based on your dialect I'm guessing you picked it up while giving them rim jobs.

[narciso the harpoon]

I don't think pistolas will quite do, flamethrower or RPG "just to make sure"

[Melinda Romanoff]

RR-

Novel, you're not. Your "talking points" logic and reasoning resemble the last dying efforts of Maurice Strong.

At least he out lived Frank Marshall and Saul, Kim is an open question.

[Ronald Reagan]

Your "talking points"

All I did was provide a quote from one of your ideological brethren, so the talking points are all yours, sweetheart. Enjoy.

[glasater]

I would love to find out if that idiot that threatened Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell wasn't some lefty trying to cause and uproar....

[Rob Crawford]

When hate-filled lunatics come around and start slinging BS about "right-wing racism", all it does is point out how sad and pathetic they are. They have nothing else? Really?

And, really, we're not the ones showing up for protests with our faces covered. That's the left's game, because they intend to commit crimes. Don't believe me? Check out the LUN. That guy was there to cause trouble.

[Ronald Reagan]

I would love to find out if that idiot that threatened Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell wasn't some lefty trying to cause and uproar....

So much for the party of responsibility.

[Ronald Reagan]

When hate-filled lunatics come around and start slinging BS about "right-wing racism"

I supplied the quote; your folks supplied the racism.

[Melinda Romanoff]

You project again.

I have no "ideological brethren", if you bothered to inquire. You already displayed your reluctance to read with a discerning eye.

Your usefulness to "the cause" might be better spent collecting signatures again for Greenpeace.

You bore me, child.

Goodbye.

[Rob Crawford]

Because no matter what BS these low-life trolls spew, I don't see myself in the caricature. I don't see anyone else I know there, either. The fictions they've cooked up don't shame me or frighten me, because they're so clearly fictions. So clearly BAD fictions. So clearly DELUSIONAL fictions.

[Rob Crawford]

Not "my folks", 'cleo. Don't even know where that BS came from. Don't care, because it has as much to do with me as stone-age Asian poetry.

[glasater]

Heh Cleo

I've met tougher guys on my face book page...

[Ronald Reagan]

I have no "ideological brethren"

At least your parents were smart enough to stop at one. The humiliation must have been a powerful deterrent.

[Rob Crawford]

I've met tougher guys on my face book page...

You raise kittens in Farmville?

[glasater]

I was a failure at Farmville Rob:-)

[Danube of Thought]

Time to get out the Ouija board and commune with the mythical dead marine.

Seeing what drops in here from time to time gives me an even greater sense of smug superiority.

Semper Fi!