Statesman: Bush to pitch to substance abuser?

Can't Stop The Bleeding found this 3/25/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org [flag]

President Bush has been an outspoken critic of steroid and substance abuse by baseball players. His name came up once in the Mitchell Report that documented the widespread abuse of performance enhancing substances by baseball players. ...The Nationals’ starting catcher - and hence a natural choice to catch the cermonial first pitch - is expected to be Paul Lo Duca. Lo Duca’s name comes up ... [link]

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Herman : Can George W. Request A Battery Mate Besides Captain Red Ass?
Published 3/25/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... poses the sensitive question (and I’m paraphrasing here), what happens when a respected leader is forced to associated himself, however briefly, with someone well known as a substance abuser? I don’t know the answer, but hopefully Paulie Go Nuts won’t be too troubled by the Commander-In-Chief’s recreational drug history (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory). ...

Today's Top Five: Racing Presidents and D.C. Hoops
Published 3/26/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... . It looks properly curly and sufficiently W-like. (Bugs and Cranks) 5) Celebrating the "G eorge W. Bush to Paul Lo Duca " battery. (Baseball Think Factory via ...

The Best Sports Weekend in D.C. History*
Published 3/31/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... she had been named "Tyler Hansborough," at least several middle aged pale-faced TV announcers would have taken one look at that bandage and fainted out of ecstasy. 10. Blogs blogs blogs! More D.C. Sports Blogs ! More on this later, but D.C. United ( Behind the Badge! ) and Chris Cooley have both launched blogs in recent days. (Cooley's is a bit older, but I did in fact learn about it over the weekend, and it has massive, massive potential.) 9. After scads of blogs mention the fact that the president's first pitch at Nats Park would be caught by a ...

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The mainland Major League Baseball season kicks off Sunday night, with the Nationals opening their new stadium. President Bush is slated to throw out the first pitch. Usually, he throws it to the home team's starting catcher. Unfortunately for him, this year the home team starting catcher is all over the Mitchell Report . So, as it turns out, the Nationals have removed Paul LoDuca from ...