The worst pitch vs. one of the best
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Democratic Mayor of Cincinnati throws what may be the worst opening pitch ever.
President Bush, wearing body armor under his clothes, throws a strike to open Game 3 in New York City, 2001.
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The CIA has better politicians than it has spies - Fred Thompson
...blame it on the secret service guy.
The look on the face of Eric Davis was priceless.
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"We can all do our part to save the planet by dying." - R.E. Finch
Bush hasn't thrown out the opening pitch for two years now. There's only one other Prez, to my knowledge, who missed two season in recent history.
that he thinks the imagery would be inappropriate and various lefty toads would be ragging on him for attending a ball game with a war on. Of course, if he doesn't attend the same toads will claim he's afraid of being booed.
Know what.
I'm really tired of your silly, mealy mouthed crap.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
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Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
The Anchoress posts it from time to time on her blog. its from a movie called "Nine Innings From Ground Zero" (I think that's right), and I believe you can purchase it from Amazon through her bookshelf, and the kickback goes to the hospice that cared for her brother.
that's the day I ceased being a Yankee hater, incidentally.
One of my fondest memories as a child was being at a Cubs game with my father as President Reagan threw out the first pitch. I didn't know much about politics at that age, nor did I care. I just thought that the fact that the President of the United States was a couple hundred feet from me throwing out a pitch was amazing.
I believe shortly after his Presidency, he sat in the booth with Harry Caray and called an inning of a game.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill