Too dangerous for Unocal Karzai to throw out first pitch at Fenway Park

NNN0LHI

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Sat May-21-05 04:15 PM
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Too dangerous for Unocal Karzai to throw out first pitch at Fenway Park

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8XIE509E.html

Afghan President Won't Be Throwing Out First Pitch at Fenway

BOSTON (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai won't get his wish to throw out a first pitch at Fenway Park.

"The logistics were just too complicated to make it happen," Boston Red Sox spokesman Glenn Geffner said. snip

"He does know about baseball and also supports it," said Ashraf Haidari, a spokesman for the Afghan embassy in Washington. He said security concerns made a first pitch difficult.

Geffner said Karzai would not attend the game.

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Cooley Hurd

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Sat May-21-05 04:18 PM
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1. How many other world leaders are invited to do so?

This is the first I've heard of...:shrug:

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Fridays Child

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Sat May-21-05 04:19 PM
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2. Aww. Too bad. Maybe a Saudi prince could stand in for him.

:eyes:

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Finn MacCool

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Sat May-21-05 04:20 PM
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3. BU is about a stone's throw from Fenway, maybe it's a tradition

of people receiving honorary degrees from there. I never heard of it though.

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saltpoint

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Sat May-21-05 04:20 PM
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4. Compensatorily, President Karzai will be permitted to kiss the winner of--

Edited on Sat May-21-05 04:21 PM by Old Crusoe

-- today's Preakness.

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Fridays Child

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Sat May-21-05 04:40 PM
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5. I like that word, compensatorily.

Is that your work? Very nice. :thumbsup:

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saltpoint

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Sat May-21-05 04:52 PM
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6. Hi, Fridays Child. -- I did try to look it up --

-- but couldn't find it. I have a paperback dictionary and it didn't have that form of the word in it.

So I guessed.

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Fridays Child

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Sat May-21-05 05:07 PM
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7. I can't find it, either, so that makes it yours.

It rolls off the tongue quite nicely. I'd say it's a keeper. :)

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saltpoint

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Sat May-21-05 05:15 PM
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8. : )

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DemBeans

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Sat May-21-05 05:20 PM
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9. how do you "support" baseball?

You either like it or you don't. Does Karzai buy MLB sanctioned merchandise? Does he trot around Kabul wearing an A-Rod jersey? Did he buy the MLB Extra Innings package on his dish?

I guess they wanted shots of the lib'rul crowds cheering Bush's favorite puppet. More stagecraft at our expense. I'm glad it's been scrubbed.

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Bluebear

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Sat May-21-05 05:22 PM
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11. "Basebol been bery bery good to Karzai?"

:shrug:

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Southsideirish

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Sat May-21-05 05:21 PM
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10. I thought this was an "Onion" story as its so bizarre.

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