Moment of the Decade

Welcome back to RedWhite&BlueSports! First of all I'd like to congratulate Sean Johnson and 27pitches.com for it's outstanding work and being put on Bob's Blitz's "Blogs to watch" for 2010, very good stuff.  Now I move onto the topic of the moment of the decade.  I sincerely hope that no one argues this with me because I'm not doing this just because I'm a die-hard Yankees fan.  But when President Bush took the mound in the 2001 World Series Game 3 in front of 57,000 at Yankee Stadium and the millions watching around the world, that captured the title of Best Moment of the Decade.


As President Bush walked out confidently onto that pitchers mound sporting a "FDNY" sweatshirt to commemorate the bravery of those who lost their lives on that tragic day in September, he stood ever so proudly while he seemed to scan the upper deck and take in what was occurring, then delivering possibly the greatest "thumbs up" in the history of the world.  With deafening cheers and blinding light bulbs flashing it seemed as though President Bush was a stone figure while he held his position for what seemed like an eternity out there.  Then with a quick, but somewhat mechanically correct, wind up and motion he threw a strike down the middle of the plate to Yankees catcher Todd Greene.  It only seems fitting that after he went out to the mound with such "swagger" he threw a strike that even "K-Zone" would recognize.  Something very few people who have thrown out the first pitch to any game can say they have accomplished.  Furthermore, something that probably wasn't notiched was that President Bush threw from the actual "rubber", unlike other ceremonial first pitches where people stand about a yard in front of the "rubber".  Finally, while he was walking off the mound there was a thunderous "U-S-A, U-S-A" chants, definitely RedWhite&BlueSports material.

There was a good game to follow as well, the Yankees won 2-1 to move the series standing to 2-1.  But another interesting fact about our fearless leader at the time is that he is one of five sitting Presidents to throw out the first pitch of a World Series and the first in 45 years to do so.  The other Presidents to throw out the first pitch to a World Series game are Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Woodrow Wilson.  Not bad company.