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Obama Throws First Pitch, Cannot Name One Player From His Favorite Team - Who Is This Man?
David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog.com ^ | April 5, 2010 | John L. Work

Posted on 04/07/2010 9:12:36 AM PDT by JLWORK

In 1954 the New York Giants swept the World Series from the vaunted Cleveland Indians in four games. By that time I had fallen in love with the game of baseball – then the National Pastime. I was seven years old. Willie Mays made a spectacular, over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Indians first baseman Vic Wertz to deep center field at the Polo Grounds. It is one of the greatest plays ever filmed. Dusty Rhodes, a left-handed pinch-hitter for the giants, hit three home runs in that Series. He became a hero of mine – until I heard my dad talking about Mickey Mantle.

In 1956 I was nine. My father took us one warm Spring night in May to see the New York Yankees play against the Indians at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. Mickey Mantle (pictured above on Time magazine cover) hit two home runs that night, one against the Indians’ starting pitcher Bob Lemon, and the second one against the great Hall of Famer Bob Feller. The first homer went so high that we temporarily lost sight of it as it soared above the stadium lights before it landed about twenty rows back in the right field seats. I can still name the starting lineups for both teams, and for several of my favorite major league teams thereafter.

Yesterday President Barack Obama, who claims to have become a Chicago White Sox fan when he moved there in the 1980s, (click the next link for the video and subsequent audio) threw out the first pitch in Washington, D.C. – then went to the broadcast booth for an interview. Asked by the announcer to name one of his favorite White Sox players, Obama dodged the question.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; baseball; bonehead; dumbazz; impeach; notamerican; numbskull; obama; treasonous
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To: JLWORK

The wrong questions were asked.

Should have been: who is your favorite comrade of the Brigate Rosse or the Symbionese Liberation Army.


41 posted on 04/07/2010 9:30:50 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What is a slave, but someone robbed of his labor to sustain the idle?)
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To: stuartcr

Maybe he hasn’t followed them closely for a while?

He was asked who his favorite players were, while growing up. He couldn’t name anyone. Also got the name of the Cubs stadium wrong.


42 posted on 04/07/2010 9:30:52 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Huskrrrr

OK


43 posted on 04/07/2010 9:31:31 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: JLWORK
During the interview he called Comiskey Park, where the White Sox used to play their games, “Kaminsky Park”

What else from a guy whose daughters have Russian names? Be glad he didn't call it Minsky's.

44 posted on 04/07/2010 9:31:37 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: JLWORK

What would Charles “Cominskey” think?


45 posted on 04/07/2010 9:31:38 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Retired Greyhound

If you hear the clip, he fumbles around for a bit, then says something like “I liked the Cubs too” without naming any of them, and then claims he grew up an Oakland A’s fan in Hawaii.

At that point I would have started grilling him about Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Gene Tenace, Rollie Fingers, Vida Blue, etc. Not sure why Rob Dibble did not do this. I guess he was afraid that if he did it would have been the last baseball game he ever broadcast in his life.


46 posted on 04/07/2010 9:32:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JLWORK

I thought he grew up near Alinsky Park.


47 posted on 04/07/2010 9:32:19 AM PDT by ducdriver (judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. (Ps. 42))
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To: nutmeg

read later


48 posted on 04/07/2010 9:32:28 AM PDT by nutmeg (Bart Stupak: Judas, Neville Chamberlain or Benedict Arnold?)
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To: JLWORK

Maybe they should have asked him an easier one:

What historical document is considered the fundamental law of the land?

Bet he would have missed that one too........


49 posted on 04/07/2010 9:32:38 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

They didn’t actually shoot them on the spot. they put them in the stockade to see if the Brits or one of the other allies came forward to claim them. I suppose the Brits asked them questions about Manchester United or Piccadilly Circus to see who got shot.


50 posted on 04/07/2010 9:33:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: JLWORK
...Kaminsky Park...

The error Obama actually made was calling it "Kaminsky Field".

51 posted on 04/07/2010 9:35:10 AM PDT by TankerKC (I think P. T. Barnum had his time off by about 59 seconds.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

In 0bama’s case, it’s the perfect color of Sox. RED.


52 posted on 04/07/2010 9:37:04 AM PDT by flying_bullet (El Conservo tribe member)
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To: massmike

What a moron!!! Did not even know the name of the stadium. Can you imagine if Bush had done that—it would have been played thousands of times on the MSM.

Somebody give this guy a pocket-size teleprompter. Oh, that is not good enough either-cannot even pronounce Corps correctly when he is reading the word. Some commander-in-chief we have.


53 posted on 04/07/2010 9:37:06 AM PDT by ponz7
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To: JLWORK

“Who is this man?”

A liar.


54 posted on 04/07/2010 9:38:53 AM PDT by pallis
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To: the invisib1e hand

Reporter: “Mr. Obama who are your favorite players from your beloved White Sox”?

Obama: “Err...ummm.... Stalin....err....ummm.... Mao.... Errr....Ummm....Chavez and Castro.....You know those Dominicanicans....Errr... ummmm and Tiger Woods...”


55 posted on 04/07/2010 9:39:25 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: stuartcr

“Good for you, but why can’t someone be a fan and not know any of the players names? Couldn’t someone just like watching a game in their home town and leave it at that?”

are you FREAKING serious? The answer in one word is: no.

In two words: HELL, no.

But not surprising for someone from Kenya who had anti-American parents who was brought up in Indonesia and had NO familiarity with real American life


56 posted on 04/07/2010 9:40:19 AM PDT by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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To: Retired Greyhound
And I believe this happened at "Kaminsky Park" during Obama's watch.

White Sox fans attacked a Royals coach during the game.

57 posted on 04/07/2010 9:40:57 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: wbarmy

“”I haven’t followed the Dallas Cowboys for 30 years, since I left Dallas, but I can still remember the quarterback, coach and most of the defensive line.””

I’m not a football fan but was an avid fan of the NY Yankees in my younger years and I probably could still name each player and their position from the late ‘40’s and ‘50’s. BUT I didn’t spend my next 60+ years trying to destroy my country and that would tend to take one’s eye “off the ball.” I guess we should cut this “blob” some slack. In his short lifetime, he’s been very, very busy taking orders.


58 posted on 04/07/2010 9:42:38 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: gemoftheocean

OK


59 posted on 04/07/2010 9:43:27 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: stuartcr
Maybe he hasn’t followed them closely for a while?

Even had he named only Frank Thomas, it would have been sufficient. It's like asking who was your favorite Chicago Bulls player in the 1990's and not naming anyone.
60 posted on 04/07/2010 9:44:44 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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