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All Star Game Live Thread (Will he reach the plate?)
vanity | 7/14/09 | Captron

Posted on 07/14/2009 5:10:19 PM PDT by CaptRon

For those who are baseball fans.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: allstar; baseball; bho44; mlb; obama; throwslikeagirl
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To: CASchack
Here's George Bush first pitch at the 2001 World Series. A strike, down the middle.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631knZM9Uiw
361 posted on 07/14/2009 7:56:59 PM PDT by dancusa (The word "racist" is a magic shield word that's supposed to stop any dissent.)
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To: dancusa

Of course. President Bush is not an effete lefty, unlike the effete lefty who attempted to throw out the first pitch tonight.


362 posted on 07/14/2009 8:13:02 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: Jim Robinson

I thought he was imitating an aardvark.


363 posted on 07/14/2009 8:14:05 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot

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.


364 posted on 07/14/2009 8:15:01 PM PDT by soccermom
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To: soccermom

One out remaining...


365 posted on 07/14/2009 8:20:08 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: republicangel

Very quick All Star Game. Man, the NL is snakebit. 13 years!


366 posted on 07/14/2009 8:21:59 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: darkangel82
........and the streak continues..............

367 posted on 07/14/2009 8:23:29 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: cowboyusa

Who will win first the National League in an All-Star Game or the Cubs in the World Series?


368 posted on 07/14/2009 8:24:43 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: truthluva
Bush shows how it’s done.

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.

369 posted on 07/14/2009 8:44:03 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The difference between Lincoln and Obama: Lincoln freed slaves. Obama is out to make them.)
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To: Christian4Bush

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...


It was simultaneously a great moment in the history of baseball and a great moment in the history of the nation. I also instantly understood, as Bush’s pitch split the plate, that al Qaeda was SOL.


370 posted on 07/14/2009 9:00:13 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: EyeGuy

Not largely because of Gibson’s dominance. The problem was that about fifteen or twenty pitchers all had ERAs at or below 2.


371 posted on 07/14/2009 9:01:36 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

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


372 posted on 07/14/2009 9:35:20 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: EyeGuy
I like to imagine Barry Bonds hitting a home run off Gibson, Bonds standing at the plate admiring the arc of the ball.....and then watching Gibson knock him on his ass in his next at bat.

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.

373 posted on 07/14/2009 10:31:21 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet
Bob Gibson would laugh at today's touchy-feely, hair-trigger charges of racism.

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.’”

374 posted on 07/14/2009 10:45:47 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot

I equate Curtis Granderson with Grady Sizemore. A real pleasure to watch play.


375 posted on 07/15/2009 3:26:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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