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It was a mercifully quick-paced Major League Baseball All-Star Game last night, lasting barely 2 and a half hours, which made it shorter than the previous night's Home Run Derby. In the end, the American League came away with another victory, winning 4-3 and keeping the NL winless streak intact (the NL last won 6-0 in 1996). That's what happens when you allow the DH, folks. It's not real baseball. Anyway. It was the second straight year the final score was 4-3 and the fourth straight year the AL won by a single run. And what of our local boys? North Sider Ted Lilly didn't see any action, but South Sider Mark Buehrle pitched a quick, easy 1-2-3 third inning for the junior circuit.
But, of course, there was another South Sider involved in the festivities that we were all anxious to see and he spent more time on the field than either Lilly or Buehrle. How did the President, proudly wearing a black jacket emblazoned with a White Sox logo, do on his first pitch? Pretty good, we think, as the original FOX camera angle made it damn near impossible to tell. Of course, any pitch near the plate would have been great for Obama considering the amount of bulletproof material he was probably wearing underneath that jacket and pair of Mom Jeans.
We like to think the boo birds were about his White Sox jacket rather than his fiscal policy. Obama then stepped in to the announcing booth for a bit of banter with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, part of which you can watch here.
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Anything that pisses off Cardinals fans is alright with me...
Way to botch the first pitch, Fox. Maybe they were sparing us from the fact that Obama throws like a girl. And good call on the Mom jeans -- what the hell, man?
I see that the dh is still being used as a crutch even to this day. Remarkable...
exactly. plus there was no DH in this game.
He was short of the plate but Pujol's did his level best to help him out and snatched it just before it hit the ground. Either way, it was great to see Barry reppin' the good guys.
Reppin' the good guys in mom jeans throwing like a girl
As opposed to all the other politicians who go out there and throw amazing pitches and look sharp doing it. Speaking of coming off like a whiny little girl, Mike....
Though I disagree with pretty much everything he did, Bush threw a good first pitch in his day.
wah wah DH.
Sorry the American league attracts better hitting AND better pitching to counter it.
Whassup Marcus...That's what happens when you allow the DH, folks. It's not real baseball.
I just checked the box score of last nights All Star Game.
No DH was used by either team...both teams picthers made plate appearances.
With that, your DH jab makes no sense.
What does tha AL using the DH in the regular season have to do with last nights All Star Game?
^ For real,
Somebody get these whiners a pacifier.
makes about as much sense as posting box scores that lack, box scores.
I thought I had addressed this already: we link to the box scores every morning. maybe calling it "morning box score" should be revisited then. but we don't quite have the CMS to successfully republish the box score in its proper format, thus we link to them.
I have no idea. They kept floating that bull on Fox last night, and it made me want to bash my head into my coffee table.
Pat Tomasulo this morning floated out the idea that the White House gave a directive not to show the pitch from the center field camera -- a theory that seems to be making the rounds.
I agree on the jeans -- is that a crease I see in pic 7?
Pat Tomasulo this morning floated out the idea that the White House gave a directive not to show the pitch from the center field camera -- a theory that seems to be making the rounds.
Really? There's a consiracy floating around about this? Just when you thought conspiracy-theorist couldn't get any more desperate or wackier...
As for the jeans, they're fine for a president. What the hell was he supposed to wear, some baggy pants hanging off his ass? As long as they're not acid-washed or with a fake rip at the knee, they're fine. Besides, he apparently always wears jeans like that...
Jeans
Clearly they can't show a center field view because Obama was not born in the United States, is a secret muslim, hates Israel and is a socialist destroying the economy.
Worst of all though, Mom Jeans.
LOL. OK, you got me with that one. I bet he learned to throw a baseball like that in a madrassa.
Besides, if there's anything to gripe about, it's the reaction of the guy driving the cart to having to shake Obama's hand. I realize he may not have voted for the guy, but sheesh... just spit on him and get it over with. C'mon, it's one second out of your life.
Watch the YouTube clip...
Okay, first of all, no they didn't use the DH last night. I know that. I meant over the course of the last 13 years, they HAVE used it at AL parks. Doesn't excuse the NL losses at their home parks. So, sure, maybe my logic was a little flawed there. The DH rule is still dumb, though.
And as for the baggy jeans, I stand by my claim that I'm pretty sure it was a combination of his desire to appear casual and to accommodate some hefty body armor. Which is also why he was wearing a jacket in 80 degree weather.
body armor. bingo!
Why shouldn't the boos be about his fiscal policies? They're terrible and I was booing him from my couch. When is this Obama-is-God complex going to ease up?
I don't care for his fiscal policies either, but I'm not stupid or disingenuous enough to think that that's why a bunch of people in Busch stadium are booing.
From a state that voted for McCain, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was at least part of the booing. And I'm not stupid or disingenuous, it's an instupituously cromulent explanation.
If they voted for McCain then they were more than happy with 8 years of horrible (and similar) Republican fiscal policy (and every kind of policy), so yeah the hypocrites should STFU. Myself I didn't vote for Obama or McCain.
BTW McCain would have won had it not been for the DH!
When is this Obama-is-God complex going to ease up?
As soon as the Obama-is-all-that-is-evil contingent relaxed a bit too.
But let's leave politics out of this. We're talking baseball I thought.
...because he was there to throw an opening pitch and not to sign another one of his evil socialist tax-and-spend bills.
I've managed to rile both the pro-Obama AND anti-Obama crowds. A first for a site that was often referred to as "Obamaist" last fall. I don't know if I should be proud or resign...
"I'm a White Sox fan and my wife think I look cute in this jacket."
That's a money quote, even if he did look like a nerdy dad.
Well you know if you are pissing them both off then you are doing something right!
Man, I thought this would be cover-of-the-Redeye fodder for sure. Alas.
Asics shoes with Adidas socks. No points for matching athletic wear Mr. President.
And, get some damn New Balance gear and support America!
perhaps this is a bit pedantic, but New Balance shoes are not exactly "Made in the USA." Just like American Apparel, the materials are made in China or Twaian or somewhere in Latin America and then shipped to the US and "completed." The level of completion varies completely from total construction to just sewing a small label on it.