Two things: 1) any critique of a president’s baseball acumen ought to be written by someone who knows better than to write about the Baseball All Stars game (it’s the All-Star Game), about Albert “Pojus” catching the pitch, or about how GW Bush “through” a better pitch in 2001...
...and 2) we really need to see him have a catch with Malia before we assess whether he throws like a girl; it’s entirely conceivable that he was so concerned about not throwing a wild pitch that he sort of just guided the ball up there.
That said, I resented the way he treated it like it was a photo-op, controlling the conditions, “using” the event to make it about him, running everywhere he went, just to prove that he’s young, hip and unaffected by the smokes. I imagine he’s mortified that he’s being criticized for his girlie throw, which is encouraging to me — since, to him, image is absolutely everything. He needs to not be so self-conscious (although, if I were him, with those radar-ears and liver lips, I’d be self-conscious, too).
If he was that concerned about bouncing it, it says even more about him.