The "Manny Ortez" remark and when he "threw like a girl" on the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on an ESPN nationally-televised Sunday night game back in 2004 was a major contributing factor in Senator Kerry's loss. Martha Coakley just did more or less the same thing....
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