Kerry Throws Yankees-Red Sox First Pitch

BOSTON - John Kerry put in a surprise appearance at the Yankees-Red Sox baseball game Sunday night to throw out the opening pitch, making an early arrival in the city where Democratic delegates were gathering to nominate him for president.

Boston baseball fans followed their usual pattern of booing and cheering the person who throws out the pitch. Kerry, the crowd's hometown senator, kept smiling as he threw a ball that sank and hit the dirt before the catcher — a soldier home from Iraq could catch it.

Kerry threw out the first pitch to Spec. Will Pumyea, 23, a military police officer in the Massachusetts National Guard from Woburn, Mass., who had just returned from Iraq and who also had previously served in Afghanistan

The game was the third in the Boston homestand between the two fierce rivals — who are also the teams representing the two convention cities. The Republicans gather in New York in late August. The Yankees won the first game Friday and the Red Sox came back with a dramatic two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to win a fight-marred game Saturday.



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you might want to keep the "breaking news" posts to news that isn't 12 hours old though. :)

move it if you want.

see bush attempting athletic-looking photo ops. He is so not at ease in his own skin.

but less than 60 feet away and muffs the throw. No wrist snap, no mustard, no ommphhh. Please warm up before hand and how about a little movement and some heat - a curve or scroogie would really impress.

Glad the Sox won!

person catching screwed up. I'll give it to JFK.

Kevin Kline in the Movie "Dave"

not throw baseballs. If it hit the ground before getting to the catcher, how could it be the catcher's fault? This is just fluff, so it doesn't matter that he couldn't get the pitch all the way in. A bunch of democrats blaming a young veteran though, won't look good politically.

If it gets mentioned by the conservative press, he should just joke and say 'big deal'.

so the soldier should have dove to his knees to block it? It was an underthrown lob that skipped off the dirt and under the soldier's glove. Perhaps a Sox player should have been back there. But the point of having the soldier and throwing the pitch in the first place was PR. It backfired slightly, it's no big deal.

That CNN Ho, Carol Costello said that this morning through her fucking gigles. I hate her... :grr:

Ya know, you just can't please some people at all. Go figure.

and if it was a real game it would have been a passed ball and not a wild pitch because the catcher did not catch it...the ball went over the plate and the catcher let it drop and get by him. The catcher was not a major leaguer but a military man so I forgive the pass ball.

I agree that the throw did not have ooommmpphhh on it though.

Kerry looks good snowboarding,. He looks good windsurfing. He is an athlete but that doesn't make him a ballplayer. He did not look good throwing that pitch.

For all his other faults, Bush has thrown "strikes" when I have seen him do the first pitch. The man may know little else but he does know the dog and pony show.

They said that people were booing Kerry and I didn't hear anything like that at all.

If you watched the whole thing though (not just the cut-scenes from the news), there were an equal amount of "boos" and cheers.

He did lack the "oomph" on this one (and he wasn't even on the pitcher's mound), and this one shouldn't be compared to Bush's throwing of his pitch. I'm a big baseball fan, and though I don't like Chimpy at all, he did throw a strike from the pitcher's mound (while wearing a bulletproof vest - lol). At least Kerry didn't feel the need to wear a BP vest.

Sox fans tend to boo most people who throw out the first pitch. It's not a big deal.

There are some pro-Bush fundies on a site I frequent and I'd love to add that to my sig line ... a graceful and coordinated candidate, how novel !!

Thanks in advance !

OK, I don't know about this. There were boos (I saw the whole game on ESPN) mixed in, but, so what, 49% boos, 51% cheers, he still wins!, the throw was pretty weak, but, hey! He's not 25 anymore, but, worst of all, he's a Boston Red Sux fan. I am a lifelong fan of the Evil Empire, the dreaded Yankees. So, I'll just say 1918, Bambino, Brett, Buckner, and Boone ONCE, and move on.

And damnit, I went to a hell of a lot of games during the 80's and early 90's when the Yankees sucked. (That's for all the Sox fans who think Yankees fans appeared magically in 1995)

Other than that, so what if he got some boos? Fenway with the Yankees always has Yankees fans, they'd boo Jesus if he was supporting the Red Sox (obviously though, God is a Yankees fan), and people could be frustrated about the traffic and tie ups around the convention center.

Nothing to worry about. Plus, the Yankees are STILL 7 1/2 games up.

~Almost

Jesus can throw a split-finger fast-ball that really tails :) - good glove too.

rooting for microsoft.

for the life of me, i can't remember. but it's a great line.

He got booed..big deal, all poli's get booed at the ballpark. His pitch was weak, big deal, he's running for POTUS not a relief pitcher. It was just to get him some face time on national t.v. It worked. ;)))

Back in the 80's when Reagan was running for re-election I heard a commentator on TV say that every time that the National league won the World Series, that a Republican also won the WH. And if the American League won then the other way around. It was something close to this, it was a long time ago and I cannot remember the details. Has anyone heard this story mentioned and if so, how would this apply to this years presidential election?

Bush would have been lunging awkwardly for it, if he was batting.

;)