Posted on 07/14/2009 5:10:19 PM PDT by CaptRon
Of course. President Bush is not an effete lefty, unlike the effete lefty who attempted to throw out the first pitch tonight.
I thought he was imitating an aardvark.
Me too -— it is so nice for my sons to have a good role model in pro sports. I’m a big USC fan and have been sooooooo disappointed in the playboy antics of Matt Leinart.
One out remaining...
Very quick All Star Game. Man, the NL is snakebit. 13 years!
Who will win first the National League in an All-Star Game or the Cubs in the World Series?
Damn foggy monitor...happens every time I watch that video...must have a virus...
Wanted the American people to know that their President could throw it over the plate...
Bush could. This sorry excuse currently in the WH couldn't.
Derek Jeter to George W. Bush: “Mr. President, in New York, we pitch from the mound. And don’t bounce it, they’ll boo you.”
Just weeks after 9/11...
Game 3 of the World Series, not far from Ground Zero...
Over 50,000 fans in the stands, light bulbs going off like crazy...
a REAL MAN steps on the mound...
Thumbs up...
and throws a perfect STRIKE.
Still makes me want to weep, thinking about it and seeing the replays...how proud I was of our country then...
Not largely because of Gibson’s dominance. The problem was that about fifteen or twenty pitchers all had ERAs at or below 2.
Actually there were about 10 pitchers with an ERA below 2.2, so “at or around 2”.
Gibson was “at or around” 1.0.
Big difference.
Yes, 1968 was the Year of the Pitcher, but unfairly or not(and there is MUCH that is unfair about the way baseball history is retold...ahem...ridiculous and unfair east coast team and player emphasis..), the bellwhether of that group was clearly Bob Gibson, and many sources cite his off the charts dominance as triggering the rules change.
Here is one:
http://www.baseball-statistics.com/HOF/Gibson-Bob.html
Sooner or later, Bonds would have gotten tired of eating dirt, or having bruised ribs.
There were a lot of pitchers back then who wouldn't have put up with that crap, but that wasn't the Bud Selig era.
He was the ultimate source of equal opportunity intimidation. He hated everyone with a bat in his hands white, black, brown or shades in between.
Who else but Bob Uecker to capture the essence of Gibby:
Now Uecker was of course, a borderline major leaguer and the Cardinals backup catcher, a real nobody compared to the mega-star that was Gibson. He drew the catching assignment of the intimidator Gibson on a day when Tim McCarver was resting. He was pretty much told to let Gibson call his own game:
“I once was catching Bob Gibson and went out to the mound,” Uecker said. “He glared at me and said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘Nothing, I was just going out to see Curt Flood in center field.’”
I equate Curtis Granderson with Grady Sizemore. A real pleasure to watch play.
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