{"id":704,"date":"2009-07-15T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/07\/obama-throws-like-a-girl-what-year-is-this.html"},"modified":"2009-07-15T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:11:51","slug":"obama-throws-like-a-girl-what-year-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/07\/obama-throws-like-a-girl-what-year-is-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Throws Like A Girl? What Year is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Baseball Fans: Some people are saying President <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2009\/07\/president-barack-obama-all-star-game-pitch.html\">Obama throws like a girl<\/a> after his <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/allstar09\/news\/story?id=4326841\">all-star game pitch<\/a> last night. I couldn&#8217;t tell; the camera work was horrible. Was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/obama-takes-mayss-pitching-advice\/article1218643\/\">Obama booed<\/a>? Everything I saw reported thunderous applause. And btw, when did throwing like a girl become a bad thing? Ever watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usasoftball.com\/folders.asp?uid=1\">Olympic softball<\/a>? Those ladies are amazing. I wish I threw like them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, George W. Bush, who used to own (in part) his very own team, the <a href=\"http:\/\/texas.rangers.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=tex\">Texas Rangers<\/a>, threw a perfect strike to open a 2001 World Series game. And then proceeded to throw 7 years of wild pitches with planet Earth. That part didn&#8217;t make <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/sportscenter\/index\">Sportscenter<\/a> somehow.<\/p>\n<p>The youtube of each is below. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg\">President Bush<\/a> had an arm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU\">President Obama<\/a> has a mind. And now, back to things that matter.<br \/> <!--more--><object width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EVAO81oxA5M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vYCEnVmNkpE\">Barack is good at basketball<\/a>.<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EVAO81oxA5M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>See how different the mood towards President Bush was in 2001?<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/631knZM9Uiw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/631knZM9Uiw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Baseball Fans: Some people are saying President Obama throws like a girl after his all-star game pitch last night. I couldn&#8217;t tell; the camera work was horrible. Was Obama booed? Everything I saw reported thunderous applause. And btw, when did throwing like a girl become a bad thing? Ever watch Olympic softball? Those ladies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Throws Like A Girl? 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