Posted on 04/05/2010 1:52:51 PM PDT by Superstu321
Carlton Fisk, Frank “the Big Hurt” Thomas, Tom Seaver, Rich “Goose” Gossage – all names that any Chicago White Sox fan knows by heart. But today, while being interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, President Barack Obama couldn’t muster up a single name.
The Commander-in-Chief, who has referred to himself a “White Sox kid” during the interview, was hard pressed to name a favorite player on a team that has been around since the late 19th century.
Obama went on to admit that growing up in Hawaii he was an Oakland Athletics fan and didn’t start to root for the White Sox until he got to Chicago and lived near the old Comiskey Park.
Video after the jump...
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I also loved the Big Red Machine and went to almost every home game, but who is Rob Dibble?? What year?? Must have been after 1979.
Actually, I have it on good authority that Obama’s favorite player is Tito Landrum.
The yuong pioneers club didn’t play baseball. ..
[Cominskey ryhmes with Olinsky] as Obama the Kenyan-Indonesian Commie plant slips it - [credit to Howie Carr listener -WVTM Vermont]]
srry WVMT VERMONT
I followed the Yankees while I was in college in NJ.
I'm not a die-hard baseball fan, even though my office mate taught me to keep a box score and I think the DH rule is the work of the devil. But I can name a few Crackers players even though I was less than 10 years old at the time (Montag (who hit the longest home run in history - all the way to New Orleans - in a passing coal car), Mathews, McCarver), a good number of Braves, and if I sat and thought for a minute I could give you the whole infield of the Yankees for any year between 1973 and 1977.
Obama is a poseur and a bald face liar.
I hope his stepping on the foul line comes back to haunt him big time.
Bingo! He is a Commie spy intent on destroying America!
He probably likes Cominsky better, it sounds like a cross between Communist and Alinsky.
I agree...but I would add Moonbat to the list. What a total FAIL nobama is as a human being, let alone as a President.
Howie Carr in Boston was talking about this interview and the FR thread a couple hours ago. Hilarious. What a fraud.
Well, I surmise that his favorite Chicago White Stockings player wouldn’t be Cap Anson ;)
P.S. And yes, as a Canadian interested in baseball history I know that the Chicago White Stockings of the 19th century are the forerunners of today’s Chicago Cubs!
Here’s Howie Carr’s segment on this:
http://audio.wrko.com/m/audio/30146503/obama-fan-but-know-no-players.htm
(You might have to register on the WRKO site to access the audio.)
What a tool.
I grew up a Dodger fan and can rattle off all my faves. I still have all the Dodger yearbooks from my fandom years.
I understand he threw like a little girl yet again and was roundly booed. Good!
Gee, I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, but I remember Minnie Minoso, Nelson Fox, Luis Aparicio, et al.
Remember the famous line uttered by Foghorn Leghorn?
“There is something just eeeeesh about a boy not knowing anything about baseball”.
I would love to see ESPN tie that warner bros cartoon with the video of barqy lofting the baseball in the general direction of the plate.
Obama called it "COMINSKEY",
With alleged president Obama, it's ALWAYS deceit!
The Great American Pastime, I suspect, means as little to Marxist Obama as our other great American ways, traditions, and culture.
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Cause he is a poseur.
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