President Obama Met America Tonight

Away from his Washington Press Corps enablers, President Obama threw out the ceremony first pitch at tonight's baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis.

I told a co-worker today it will be a referendum on Obama, to see how America's heartland greeted him.

The Wall St. Journal confirms he was booed:

"Obama is still wearing jeans as he runs out of the dugout for the first pitch. And they’re booing him. Because he’s wearing a White Sox jacket. You have to admire the President of the United States running out to the pitcher’s mound in St. Louis while wearing a Chicago jacket."

Yeah, it was the jacket, not the 16% under/unemployment rate and the fact that the deficit passed a trillion dollars this week.

I carefully listened to the crowd reaction, and I would put the negative reaction at 60-70%.

The President offered the National League Sonya Sotomayor's empathy ruling for not winning in eleven years, and ignored a groundskeeper who asked him where all the other shovel-ready jobs were.

The Sports Examiner: "Obama booed more at All Star game than Manny in New York return"

Never Knew Bud Selig was a Marxist

Major League Baseball is delaying the first pitch of game six of the 2008 World Series at the request of the Fox Network in order not to interfere with Barack Obama’s quest for the Presidency.

And what is so important that it can affect our national pastime? Is it a Presidential debate, or a State of the Union address by either party’s President, no. It is a 30-minute, propaganda infommercial for Barack Obama.

Now, let’s turn back the clock a decade ago when Cardinal John O’Connor requested Major League Baseball push back some scheduled start times of games in order to observe the 3 hours designated for Passion on Good Friday. Major League Baseball then said it is "tough to reschedule games".

I guess the requesting party was petitioning on behalf of the wrong Savior.

Cubs Fans: The Game is Designed to Break Your Heart

A condolence for the special Chicago Cubs fan in my life, and all other Cubs fans across the county. Here is a writing by former Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti on how baseball is inherently designed to break your heart to show you are not alone:

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October [5], a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

The Green Fields of the Mind - Bartlett Giamatti