White Sox fans attacked a Royals coach during the game.
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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The wrong questions were asked.
Should have been: who is your favorite comrade of the Brigate Rosse or the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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.
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What else from a guy whose daughters have Russian names? Be glad he didn't call it Minsky's.
What would Charles “Cominskey” think?
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.
I thought he grew up near Alinsky Park.
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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........
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.
The error Obama actually made was calling it "Kaminsky Field".
In 0bama’s case, it’s the perfect color of Sox. RED.
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.
“Who is this man?”
A liar.
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...”
“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
White Sox fans attacked a Royals coach during the game.
“”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.
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