Turns Out, It Takes Two Bushes to Throw Out One Opening Pitch for World Series Game Four

By Robert Wilonsky Fri., Oct. 29 2010 at 10:20 AM

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This just in from John Blake and Major League Baseball: Yet again, Nolan Ryan will toss out the first pitch at the Ballpark in Arlington for a post-season game, when, tomorrow evening, he takes the mound for Game Three of the World Series. (And, no, apparently he's unavailable to work a few innings as relief, which is a damned shame.) On Halloween, when it may well be do or die for Your Texas Rangers, two of the X-Presidents will take the mound: George H.W. Bush and his boy Dubya. Which completely screws up my costume now.

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The fact that you think Bush has a better pitch than Obama would be important if you were selecting a baseball team. Is that a criteria for Tea Baggers?
Don't worry about us getting riled up. It is the others that he has riled up, i.e. the WORLD that you should be more concerned with. We just like to remind you, from time to time that it is the Bush sheeple that voted him in and lead our youth into a convuluted useless war. And what were the results? If you think he is a great American leader, then one can only assume you live in Preston Hollow. You are out of sync with the planet.
Wow. Riled up the anti-Bush crowd pretty quick there. I gotta hand it you guys -- you really know how to beat a dead horse. I cannot wait to see the Bushes, two great American leaders, throw out the first pitch tomorrow.
PHD I think you mean a man of true horror, and let's give God some credit for taste.
True man of honor? Wow. He was involved in outing a CIA agent & invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 leading to thousands of deaths. Yeah, that's honorable.
One thing is for sure - George Bush Jr. has a MUCH better pitch than Barrack Obama. Obrama's girly pitch was downright embarassing!
God Bless George W. Bush. A man of true honor.
I wish that I could be there to throw out the first shoe.
San Francisco has weed smokers at the stadium and we have George W. Bush. I suppose it's nice to know that while the Giants are beating the living shit out of the Rangers on national television (Fox, specifically), this overall dynamic will at least have a medicinal, rehabilitative effect on the rest on the country. Giants in four. (And I'm a Rangers fan.)
First time I've seen G. W. Bush and Balls in the same sentence...
Caroline Guess wars started exactly half way around the otherside of the world are free! At least Obamas GS turns over in our country
Lots of bitter clingers here, but wait... "43 percent say that Barack Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush, while 48 percent say Bush was a better president than Obama has been." http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/10/27/poll-most-want-obama-fired-in-2012 Miss him yet?
@Bill in Dallas - well said Maybe they should take a look at the amount Ron Reagan added to the deficit in his 8 years in office. But, don't worry about that....
@Phil Boyd I can see you're a man of class and good taste. Go Rangers!
do we know who is doing the God Bless Americas?
Great! Let's just keep reminding people that we are the home for mentally challenged drunken war criminals. Too bad they can't fly in John Hinkley for the event.
What an embarrassment to still want to be associated with the worst leader this countrys ever had in Dubya. Caroline it will take a lot longer than 19 months to clean up the previous administrations fuck ups so spare us the tea party bullshit.
yep and it only takes ONE Obama to increase the fed debt held by the public $2.5260 trillion in 19 months.... I'll take sending out two guys to pitch to a baseball game any day
Why not go as the H-Dub and bring the boy as Dubya. Give him a taste of scotch, teach him to throw a bad pitch and drunk drive and bail him out continuously and y'all should be good.
Hey, but at least Lyle Lovett's singing the National Anthem Sunday ... (Kelly Clarkson tomorrow.)
2 guys that shouldn't be allowed at Rangers games, Tom Hicks & W. Can't the Rangers distance from those 2 bafoons....