Morning Audibles 4.6.10 - Butler Didn't Do It & Other "UnShining Moments"

I don't really know where to start this morning... The markets? MEH... I'm about damn sick of them by now... Of course, that's what we'll mostly talk about today, but this is ROMEAMERICA dammit! And therefore we know that "work" and things like that are only to get us from holiday weekends, through to 'One Shining Moment'/Opening Day Mondays, and onto Masters Thursday. I suppose CV will have to be the entertainment in the intermission (note: this is the part of the "Gladiator Games" where they slaughter all the animals that were killed in the first act, cook it up and feed it to the Romans - In case you were wondering).


OK - Here's where we start (In our anthology of UN-SHINING MOMENTS)

So Obama tosses out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game. This was the 2nd time he's thrown out a first pitch (1st at last years ALL STAR GAME - which he only attended because he thought he'd been voted into the lineup). First of all... Dude, you can't throw... If he were pitching a real game, the count on the batter would be 2 balls and no strikes right now. By next year, he'll have "walked" the guy (I wonder if the batter is named Jamie or Lloyd)... What's the deal with his toeing the rubber? Dude! You're not holding anyone on first base, just throw the effin' thing over the plate and get off the field... 2nd? This is a WASHINGTON NATIONALS home opener. What's the deal with the CHICAGO WHITE SOX hat? We know you're from 60606, but come on... Honor your host for God's sake! This isn't "Crips & Bloods" dude (I know the Nationals have "Blood" colors - but you don't have to silently acknowledge the CRIPS in the process)

CRIPS love "Sox" hats

 

You're doing it WRONG!

You're STILL doing it wrong!

Look, cut the crap and get down to basics. This is how you do it. You first honor your host (in what you wear), you walk out to the mound, waste no time, THROW A STRIKE down the middle... Obama said afterwards that he had been throwing so many strikes in practice and that on the moment ...the ball slipped out of his hand. WTF? No, seriously... WTFF?

Sort of like this... 

Stop trying to please the people like this who voted you into office!

Or this guy (notice baseball hat @:09), who shares your TEAM affiliation...

And whatever you do, don't break out into song (like he did once).

If you keep going the way you are going, what was once a great thing (like the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament), is going to end up as a crappy music video that you couldn't even "lip synch" properly...

CV is pining for "simpler" days (like this - which is "Hinkle Hall" - the site of the Indiana State Championship game in the movie "HOOSIERS" where tiny Hickory High knocks off powerhouse South Bend - "Hinkle Hall" is actually where BUTLER plays its home games on campus - Truth is stranger than fiction).