Posted on 07/15/2009 7:57:43 AM PDT by rvoitier
So forget politics for a moment and just watch the video below. It’s a great behind-the-scenes look at the build-up to Bush’s first pitch at the 2001 World Series, and the strike he fired with the lights shining bright.
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Not fair, though - GW wasn’t a metrosexual.
I guess Obama learned to bounce the ball in front of the plate while playing Cricket as a child in Kenya...
I heard an awful lot of boo-ing when Zero took the mound. I think they tried to drown it out with fake applauds through the sound system.
BTW, he threw like a 8 year old girl at the science fair! What a waste you POS!
A former baseball team owner SHOULD be able to pitch, even with a flack jacket on.
Good thing Pujois was standing in front of the plate and then moved forward to catch it. That ball would have bounced 3-4 feet in front of the plate.
I remember W’s pitch as if it were yesterday. It was HUGE given the pressure and tenor of the time. What a man.
Sure makes me miss the old, pre-2004 GW
Back to obama, did you notice the guy driving the cart did not look anxious to shake hands? LOL.
I miss GW Bush.
Why is it that all democrats throw like girls?
I remember when W threw it out in 02 there was a roar of applause I've never heard at a game before.
I remember it as well. You are right. It was huge. I remember literally cheering when he nailed the strike. At that moment in time, it was more than just a pitch.
What gets me is why he didn’t just go up there and heave it at Pujols. It’s not like anybody expects a filthy breaking ball or a sizzling heater. Don’t even try to ‘pitch’. Just heave like you would if you were playing catch. Throw it hard. Pujols will catch it.
Worst case, you throw it right over Pujols’ head, everbody gets a laugh, and at least you don’t look like a wuss.
I wonder if Palin throws like a girl.
The most hated man in the world.
God Bless you Sir
The most hated man in the world.
God Bless you Sir
And I thought sports was a safe haven away from liberalism and media bias...I guess not.
He lobs the ball in the dirt and then pumps his fist like "YES!".
Typical of the fraud that is our President Obortion.
W had an unfair advantage over Obama. Like other American children, he grew up playing baseball.
Zero throws like one.
bttt
ping
I just reviewed the video of Bush’s pitch, and it looked like a change-up, but he left it a little up.
But he's a midwesterner, so of course he's ignored by the East Coast ESPN elites - and he is not one to suffer fools so his reaction to Zero is understandable.
I never saw the complete trajectory. Fox was very circumspect in protecting 0 from embarrassment. Got a link to whole thing?
The cheering did seem to mixed, and the Fox audio had an artificial quality to it. What is the audio analog to fauxography?
check this out
Fox camera coverage “edited”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymXpJg9Z40
It was the guy driving the cart who looked like he’d sooner be somewhere else!
Rush Limbaugh’s treatment by ESPN when he discussed Donovan, and the episode with Howard Cosell and others, have showed that sports media is just as liberal and PC
He's good at one thing...making love to the teleprompter.
A great pitch and part of the making of a fantastic opportunity to renew America that was frittered away in the interest of political correctness.
Even Marge Schott?
Ozero, you “throw like a girl!”
Agreed, God only knows why Fox didn’t include Pujols in that shot. What’s in it for them protecting the sissy throwing 0?
That’s some mighty impressive gibberish amigo. Gold-medal winning gibberish.
Born in Donora, PA???
Yeah...I’m needing a translation of that post.
I bet the catcher would be able to stand behind the plate if she was throwing...
I knew Marge Schott! She had a mean fast ball and a killer breaking ball!
I bet she would remind Obama of his own grandmother, his view of a ‘typical white woman’. (Which she was not. She simply had bad form, no malice intended. But her statements fit the stereotype. IMHO.)
Ok, I am crying.... Why could the Democrats simply LEFT US ALONE? Why did they have to start dividing us the way they have, with vitriol and hate?
Damn those Democrat leaders to hell, With President Bush, we were united and whole. Now we are stuck with those bastards divisive politically correct Socialism. Damn them to hell.
God bless you. Peace be unto you.
We are at war and they can't be reasoned with. The days of compromise are over. They have a goal and are conducting protracted warfare, where they take a little here and there, to achieve it--destruction of the Freedoms and Liberties this country was founded on for purposes to control the masses as the individual citizens can't be trusted in their minds.
I noticed :-) He did not look happy either, almost glowered.
Right. Growing up in Indonesia, Obama probably never played baseball, or even saw it being played.
Ha ha more like words sans jitter jiuice and a donut in the morning...yikes....thanks for the warning on my fantastically reprehensible rhetoric....ha ha:>)
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