<p>LOL, gotta go. See y’all later.</p>
<p>Hope you are off having a cold frosty paid for by your kids, since your GPA beat theirs. Congrats, and gloat way!! (see his thread on gloating…)</p>
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<p>Oh, did the White House personally supervise the camera angles? That’s a new one on me. And here I thought it was the individual media companies who determined what shots / angles they were going to use, freedom of the press and all.</p>
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<p>And I’m sure a President McCain would not have been able to throw much of a pitch at all, given his injuries incurred in the service of our country. So what? Why does any of this matter? The pitch is not to cut him slack or not-cut-him-slack over, since it doesn’t MATTER other than as a ceremonial whatever at a baseball game.</p>
<p>I’m amused that they are criticizing his pitch. I guess they’re desperate to find something.</p>
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<p>I haven’t seen that. I just find it amazing how people are so set on the “conspiracy” that Fox didn’t show his pitch at first.</p>
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<p>The “stimulus” <a href=“where%20%5Bb%5Dare%5B/b%5D%20those%20jobs%20he%20promised%20%22immediately%22?”>i</a>*, nationalizing the auto industry and shafting thousands of honest creditors of GM, ObamaCare, a projected eleven trillion-dollar federal deficit … sure, “nothing” at all here!</p>
<p>But you’re right, the pitch was nothing to talk about.</p>
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<p>Throwing it 60’ 6" is not hard. </p>
<p>I could do it when I was 6 and can still do it at 46 - and can do it from my knees.
My wife can do it (and looks better than Barack).
My son can do it 150 times in an afternoon (he is a college pitcher)
My daughter can do it (but hates baseball so never would)</p>
<p>My question remains - other than the two Bushes - why is it that presidents can’t throw? The bullet proof vest is an obstacle - but Barack’s motion made it obvious he has never played baseball. Clinton can’t throw, Reagan couldn’t, Nixon really couldn’t, etc…</p>
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<p>One of the cruelties of politics. President Obama is, as we know, a roundball guy, Clinton and Nixon were golfers for the most part, and Reagan was a horse guy. Ford, by the way, was a hockey guy which I find very cool. Point is, very few POTUS were baseball players but they’re all expected to look like Nolan Ryan on the mound.</p>
<p>It bounced. You can’t really blame the guy, nobody plays baseball in Jakarta where he grew up. Most boys learn to play catch with their dads and Obama’s dad abandoned him. The Indonesian step dad had no idea how to throw a baseball. Bush threw the ball really well at Yankee stadium in 2001, but he grew up in the U.S.A… It is not really fair to compare.</p>
<p>Ford was an All-American football player at Michigan. Nixon picked up golf later in life, he was more of a bowler than a golfer. Kennedy was a swimmer (and a sailor), but the back injury was a set back. Obama is more of a smoker, than an athlete.</p>
<p>Of course, what kinds of idiots think that athletic prowess means anything about someone? I couldn’t GAS whether Obama threw an outstanding pitch or bumbled it. It means nothing. Wouldn’t have cared about McCain’s physical prowess or lack of such prowess either. I hate this faux-we-have-to-judge-the-candidates-on-things-that-don’t-matter.</p>
<p>^glido, the man’s a pretty serious gym rat and basketball player.</p>
<p>what kind of idiot thinks that this conversation is anything other than chit chat…</p>
<p>I take it all back - here are some really bad first pitches</p>
<p>[The</a> 7 Worst First Pitches By Famous People Ever (VIDEO) (POLL)](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>The 7 Worst First Pitches By Famous People Ever (VIDEO) (POLL) | HuffPost Entertainment)</p>
<p>Obama looks like he is ready to sign a contract compared to these efforts - some by professional athletes!!!</p>
<p>^^^ LOL, great clips, scualum!</p>
<p>I am in awe of you, your wife and kids for being such obviously good ballplayers. If I tried to pitch, mine would probably look like the Carl Lewis or Mariah Carey one. Good thing for Mariah, in that get-up she was wearing, no one was looking at her pitch 
So since your family has the pitching skill already in hand (pun intended) and can easily handle (oops pun again) this honorarium, which one of you will be running for POTUS?</p>
<p>Gonna have to be one of the younger two!!! I’m LOL at the thought of either my wife or I on the campaign trail!!</p>