Hmmmm. Will he be making The Claudine Longet Invitational Ski Tournament this year? 
Posted on 09/18/2004 12:53:17 PM PDT by MIT-Elephant
Think John Kerry knows sports? How about referring to "Lambert Field" in Green Bay, WI...it's Lambeau Field, Lambert Field is a St. Louis Airport.
The Junior Senator also referred to "Manny Ortez" of the Boston Red Sox. There is no such player; the names are Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. It's all here:
http://www.footballfansfortruth.us/
Those sports fans among us know how to spot a phony fan.
BTTT
"I did not have sexual relations with Manny Ortiz!"
But, he likes French skiers or is that skiing French?
Rink Turns and Big Deals (John Kerry The Athlete) ^
...Resor disagrees."He wasn't a very good athlete," he says. "I mean, he wasn't a star athlete. But if you were cool [and] you were at least well-coordinated, you could pass yourself as semi-decent at whatever you played.
"He was the kind of guy ... you know what a 'rink turn' is? When the puck starts going the other way, you're supposed to jam on the brakes and sprint back. If you're lazy, you don't stop and start; you do a rink turn. And John was the kind of guy that would do rink turns. But he'd sort of look cool doing it. And he was a good stick handler, and a good passer -- when he wanted to pass."
Mueller, who went on to play hockey for four years at Princeton, apparently didn't think much of Kerry as a hockey player. At a Q&A session at St. Paul's in February, the only thing the FBI director would say about his former teammate was that he "was a very good lacrosse player."
Hmmmm. Will he be making The Claudine Longet Invitational Ski Tournament this year?
It's perhaps forgivable to go to a different city, especially one in a different division or league, and mangle the name of a top player. But in your own hometown?
Politicians should keep utterly silent on sports topics unless they are true and knowledgeable fans who go to games at least once in a while. The voting public cares a heck of a lot more about their local teams than they do about their politicians.
-ccm
The 'manny ortez' clip is available at the Boston Dirt Dogs website here:
http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/2004/07/Millar.mp3
In the midst of a narcissistic Kerry campaign line.
Yeah, and how bout extolling the virtues of the Buckeyes to a bunch of Michigan fans?
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