Obama reps Chicago's South Side, delivers first All-Star pitch

Yahoo Sports ^ | July14 | 'Duk

[PghBaldy]

ST LOUIS — Where did it land? Was it a strike or wasn't it? Why didn't the network choose a better camera to shoot from? Those were the questions that viewers of baseball's All-Star Game were asking themselves at home after Fox elected to show President Barack Obama's ceremonial first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game from a tight angle....Obama's southpaw delivery landed a little short of the plate, but Cardinals star Albert Pujols(notes) was able to save it by quickly scooping it up....Though Obama was roundly cheered by the All-Star fans, his live presence still didn't attract the applause that George W. Bush did during a taped announcement by the four previous Presidents before the game and some boos could even be heard among the cheers.

[maggief]

He gave himself a fist pump. Everything about this clown is stage.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Marxists are usually really weak throwers. Karl Marx was the same way

[Las Vegas Ron]

What a wuss....didn't even get the ball to the plate.

The crowd sounded like they were all on Valium

[machogirl]

For those who might want to relive the moment of a great pitch in 2001.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631knZM9Uiw&feature=PlayList&p=3A99732248BFF281&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=21

[Batman11]

They should have had MoBelle throw out the first pitch. She would have looked like one of those big, hairy galluts that used to play baseball against Bugs Bunny. The ones that used to smoke cigars while they played. At least she would have got the ball to the damn plate!

[machogirl]

Thanks, I really didn’t want to watch it.

[rlmorel]

LOL...I do think I remember you saying that, pissant!

[smoothsailing]

That's a hoot!!! May I borrow it?

[C210N]

I didn't get to watch, but am curious which baseball hat he wore. Was it this one:

or was it this one:

[Las Vegas Ron]

most ceremonial first pitches are dreadfully bad.
most are thrown by guys in their 60’s or 70’s who have not thrown in decades.
mccain and dole (due to war injuries) would not be able to throw it at all.

If you hadn't been here so long I'd swear you were a troll

[savedbygrace]

LOL.

[machogirl]

I’m sure I watched a couple during the only two Diamondback games I’ve been to.

[EyeGuy]

A real President throwing a real pitch.

[machogirl]

That answered my question. I don’t think that Pink is his color.

[savedbygrace]

The announcer covered for him, saying he got the ball “to the plate and to the glove of” the catcher.

What a baldface lie. Everybody who watched the 2nd camera angle knows it’s a lie. It never made it to the plate.

I think it hit the dirt, a one hopper to the catcher.

[truthandlife]

Here it is. Get the barf bag out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbbLjOJRNc

[charmedone]

“A 57-foot pitcher in a 60-foot world.”

60’ 6”

[DrDeb]

:)!

[rabidralph]

Yahoo has a better angle of the pitch on the replay when Joe Buck starts talking. You have to sit through the first bad angle and then there's an overhead shot from MLB TV It was an intentionally weird angle and the cameraman jerked the camera away from the plate as the ball was getting there.

[EyeGuy]