Bush Rules White House Tee Ball Game

[Bob Geiger]

Joined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, George W. Bush on Sunday hosted Tee Ball on the South Lawn, a day of spirited youth baseball featuring the children of active-duty military personnel. Former New York Yankees All-Star Bernie Williams served as first base coach while Peter Pace, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, coached at third. (Observers noted that Karl Rove appeared to be directing Pace's actions for the entire game.)

The White House reports that Bush went 3 for 4, with a single, triple and home run and that First Lady Laura Bush took the happy president to Baskin-Robbins afterwards for a celebratory double-scoop cone.

[Bluzmann57]

1. At the risk of being an a**hole

Teeball is one of the problems with this country. By that I mean that there is no sense of winning and losing, which really happens in life. I played baseball for several years and learned that sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. If a kid isn't good enough to hit a pitched ball, he or she should either practice more or find something else which they can do. We can't all be good at sports. Just as we can't all be good at writing or photography or whatever. Some of us can't be very good at leading the free world either.
And the chimp doesn't deserve ice cream either. The kids are better than him. But I suppose ice cream for them would amount to a government hand out and that is not permitted. Except for loyalists.