[keepitreal]

It's tough when you throw like a girl....

[kromike]

It’s an environment that he can’t control. He’s terrified that someone might ‘boo’ him and hurt his delicate feewings.

[WayneS]

Afraid you can’t get it to the catcher on less than one bounce, eh?

That’s okay, Barry, you just stay home and eat some arugula... no, don’t WORRY about the price, the rest fo the taxpayers and I will pick up the tab...

[a fool in paradise]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Obama Hates America’s National Pasttime.

[Doogle]

but he’ll bring a “friend” along on a 6 nation trip on Air Force One to play basketball

[RegulatorCountry]

The Thin-skinned One is afraid, afraid he’ll be booed, afraid his carefully crafted image of athleticism will tumble to the ground like a limp-wristed flail of an opening pitch.

[ConservativeMind]

Just like he doesn’t let out the White House videos of the stupid things he does (Irish Prime Minister, etc.) he won’t do something like this, in which he can’t stop from looking stupid.

He has a serious complex.

[a fool in paradise]

According to a White House aide, Obama will decline the team's invitation to throw the pitch before the game against the Philadelphia Phillies, brushing back a presidential tradition that dates to 1910.

Obama told us that our history and traditions would have to CHANGE. That we can't go on living the way we have.

He's come to bury America's national passtime.

[Sequoyah101]

Does anyone wonder if his “Anwar Sadat” moment in Turkey may have him a little shaken?

He is a cowering bully though. I think we will only see him in well controlled settings from here for a long time.

[NMEwithin]

silly...Muslims don’t play baseball!

[FewsOrange]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/07/obama-to-throw-first-pitch-at-opener/

“Obama to throw Nats’ first pitch”

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/10/president-throw-first-pitch/

“President Obama won’t throw the ceremonial first pitch before the Washington Nationals’ home opener Monday. “

[lilycicero]

I’d understand if baseballs were made from pigskin...(ah ha)...but that’s not the reason.

[dawn53]

I’m no psychiatrist, and I don’t play one on TV.

However, IMHO, Obama is so insecure he won’t put himself in any situation that he can’t “control”...thus the teleprompted short press releases, and his statement yesterday when asked about the pirates, “We’re talking about houses now.”

Two perfect examples are this pitch...he might not make a good pitch (probably won’t...so he won’t chance it) and the Gridiron Club dinner. Both were longstanding traditions he backed out of, and I think for no other reason than to preserve his narcissistic compulsion to be viewed as better than the average Joe.

[Swede Girl]

He's afraid of getting the boos that his veep received at a recent game. Also, I don't think baseball is his game. It is too American, and he might offend the Germans and the rest of Socialist Europe, the Muslims, Castro, Kim Jong-Mentally Ill, and Bill Ayrs.

[tflabo]

Just paint a basketball white with red threads and he can 3 point shoot his pitch to the catcher.

[llevrok]

Are there no cue cards or teleprompters to do it for him?

[AUsome Joy]

They should get George Bush...

[Dallas59]

But he will throw out the first RAP lyrics at the DC National RAP Off...

[a fool in paradise]

before the game against the Philadelphia Phillies

Maybe he was afraid he might encounter the Pittsburgh Pirates.

[AppyPappy]

What a wuss