Biden to throw out first pitch today
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 06, 2009 
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This release from the Orioles:
Vice President of the United States JOE BIDEN will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to today’s Opening Day game. The Orioles will play the New York Yankees at 4:05 p.m., with pre-game ceremonies scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m.
Born in Scranton, PA, Biden moved to Delaware at a young age and at 29 became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate. Prior to his election as Vice President of the United States, Biden spent 36 years representing Delaware in the Senate, including 17 years as Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and 11 years as Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Biden will be the first sitting Vice President ever to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Biden’s giving the commencement address at Syracuse….the year after I graduated, of course!
While I’m not a Bush guy, I have to say his pitch in 2001 was not a bad toss at all. Decent break.
Over/under on how many members of the 2008 lineup would have chased it?
f him. maybe he should do a little searching and find a “website number” that can teach him how to throw.
That’s pretty cool – I hope the weather cooperates. Man, April weather in the northeast stinks
Jeers –
Last year Cano & Melky would have swung between bounces if it had bounced. And Pavano would have pulled a muscle while handing him the ball before the pitch.
isnt Joe Biden the videogame fan?
So Posada says the new batter’s eye (of the restaurant’s tinted windows) is fine from the batter’s point of view, but when seeing the ball out of the pitcher’s hand as a catcher the background is the diamond vision above the batter’s eye.
The screen can’t be animated when someone’s getting ready to hit, but I could still see that as a potential problem.
Oh joy, so glad I’m missing this.
What’s the weather situation?
Already see that Sox/Rays and WSox/Royals are postponed.
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Peter, you thinmk the game is going to go on schedule? It seems as it is is going to rain cats and dogs (and all the animals in between). I live in DC, so yeah. Keep us posted!
Weather is going to be fine… mostly cloudy from 2 PM on, only 20% chance of rain.
I have class from 2.30-5.00, praying that we get out early, but since we left early last week I don’t have very high expectations.
I’m going to the game on wednesday night!
I have no interest in making predictions but I would like to offer this for my team for 2009 at this time.
I pray that energy and spirit moves within each player and within the team as a whole in such a way that the Yankees are all healthy, happy and always competitive.
I pray that they find the Passion and the Purity that they each played with as Little Leaguers, ignoring the illusion that whirls around them now.
I pray that Yankee batted balls find the holes in the infield, the grass and gaps in the outfield and The Fence. That Yankee pitched balls always find their intended spots with great velocity. And that opponent batted balls effortlessly find and fall into Yankee gloves.
I pray that Yankee fans support all Yankee players with their energy, Love and cheers, all the time, especially the struggling ones.
Go Yankees!!
Thank you Peter.
mlb website says the KC/White Sox game was postponed due to COLD!
Drafted my fantasy team in a 10-team league last night, what do you guys think? My lineup is stacked, I think my bench is pretty deep and I really like the upside on my pitching, but I feel like some of my starters are a little bit risky.
C Jorge Posada
1B Prince Fielder
2B Mark DeRosa
3B Aramis Ramirez
SS Jimmy Rollins
LF Carlos Quentin
CF Grady Sizemore
RF Milton Bradley
UTIL David Ortiz
Bench Chris Iannetta, C
Bench Shin-Soo Choo, LF, RF
Bench Jose Lopez, 2B
P Jair Jurrjens
SP Jake Peavy
SP Jon Lester
SP Yovani Gallardo
SP A.J. Burnett
SP Adam Wainwright
RP Joakim Soria
RP Bobby Jenks
RP Huston Street
Bench Brad Penny, SP
No problemo, Richard C! I’ll take care of everything.
MLB Network predictions: Verducci, Reynolds, Leiter and Wiliams had Yanks winning East and Sox WC. All the rest had Sox winning East and Yanks WC except Magrane who had Sox and Rays winner and WC.
Interesting:
For all the talk about the AL East being the strongest division in baseball, the Yankees are the only team in the division that did not have a losing record against any AL East division team last year.
“mlb website says the KC/White Sox game was postponed due to COLD!”
They weren’t lying. It’s 30+ degrees here in Chi-town. We had snow last night. It’s times like these when I wish I lived in Hawaii.
So glad I live in NY and not chicago…
Eric–nice team–surprised you were able to get both rollins and grady–sweet. good thing you picked up choo–i’m not sure how many games bradley will end up playing. you have 2 great catchers too! pen as well as starters. i like the idea of using De Rosa for yr 2nd baseman — good job!
ESPN had the accu-weather.com guy on this morning and he says the Yanks/O’s will get the game in today.
dang it, i forget i shouldn’t use dashes…
“The MR-42 (version 2009) bionic pitcher developed and built by the Yankees performed at amazingly high technical levels all spring (0.00 ERA). The testing phase is over and it is ready to be unleashed on the American League. May God have mercy on their souls”
What Sweeny Murti says
Overlooked in the barrage of posts over the last hour was Pete’s prediction that the Yankees big crisis this season would be Arods marriage to Yoko Ono. Now that’s LOL funny. Good one Pete.
Still, I can’t imagine the co-op board of The Dakota allowing Arod to re-surface John Lennons white room with mirrors.
Posted this a few threads earlier…
Game forecast says 40% chance of showers and low-60s for today’s game…I hope the showers pass and they get to play.
http://www.weather.com/outlook.....038;epc=be
-the offense needs to show up-
peter did i get blocked cuz for sum reason when i used my computer at home i cant send no comment or anything.But when i used other people computer it works i have no idea whats happening.
Mike – I had the 6th overall pick in the draft and used it to take Grady, then somehow managed to absolutely steal Rollins in the 2nd round with the 15th overall pick. I was originally going for Iannetta at catcher & Choo in RF, but I managed to nab Posada and Bradley ahead of both of them. I really like DeRosa too as he can play 2B, 3B, LF, and RF, so I’ve got a lot of redundancy built in.
Any idea or predictions of who will throw out the first pitch for the Yankees home opener?
It’s true afterall: global warning is a hoax.
global warming
$20 says he bounces it.
I saw Bush throw in that 1st pitch…security was insane while he was in the park…snipers, extra metal detectors, dogs, etc…pretty crazy stuff.
yankeefan91, it’s because you have arod fan in your posting name…
This is definitely a joke BTW….
Hokiehill
lol i never though of that i should of figured since peter not a big arod fan.
$20 that Biden throws a 90mph Gyroball on the left corner of the plate for a strike
Eric, WOW hard to believe rollins fell to 15th you must have been sweating out that last pick before your turn!
Does anyone know for certain that the game is now on ESPN (as the Rays/Sox are rained out)?
I have MLB.tv, and being in the Raleigh area, all of the games are blacked out when I watch Yanks/Orioles – about 19 non-nationally televised games in the crapper. Since we’re technically an Orioles TV market, and our fantastic cable company, Time Warner, refuses to air MASN, I get shafted every season. This season is worse, as I stand to miss Opening Day. I’d get DISH or DIRECTTV, but to get them with the YES Network is very expensive…
Eric, your fantasy team is pretty stacked, good job!
Pete and I have the same pick for the AL Cy Young.
“Any idea or predictions of who will throw out the first pitch for the Yankees home opener?”
I’m guessing YOGI.
I don’t think I am the only one wishing a few R*d S*x players would have seaon-ending injuries when they play out in the rain today.
Rain is pouring down here, still 5 hours til game time, though. If this keeps up, which it might, there’s no chance of a game today. But there’s some light to the west, so we may get to beat the O’s after all.
I don’t wish season ending injuries on anyone ER
“I don’t wish season ending injuries on anyone ER”
/agree
Woo Hoo! Game day. Hopefully.
Madonna’s adoption request denied. It’s all Alex’s fault!
(Seriously, why a child would be better off in an African orphanage than with Madonna is beyond me.)
I’m sorry for trashing ESPN. I hope their weather predictions and today’s Accuscore prediction (61% chance of a Yankee win) are both correct!
As for weather sites, try wunderground.com, I like their radar. But I’m not liking their hourly predictions for today.
ER, they arent playing today. But yea, I wish the Sox had the Yanks problems of last year. Lets see Beckett go down for 3/4 the season, Lester for 1/4, Ortiz break his knees, and Bay go down for 3 months. Then lets have all of their bullpen aside from Papelbon, Masterson, go on the DL for a combined half year.
Lets see how they do then.
I picked John Smoltz for the CY Young but I can see Dice-K winning it
Today’s game wouldn’t be cancelled if mlb had done it right by scheduling the game in Tampa. And why do the Red Sox get to host anyway?
No offense, but how can Smoltz win the Cy Young if he’s only pitching half a season?
“Today’s game wouldn’t be cancelled if mlb had done it right by scheduling the game in Tampa. And why do the Red Sox get to host anyway?”
I know… it seems like we go through this every year.
all politics aside, President George W threw that first pitch in 2001 like a champ, it looked like a curve and he did it from the mound w/ a bullet proof vest on, that was a great moment…curious to see how Joe B does
Attention idiots:
Nobody cares about your political thoughts on this blog. Nor is this the place to make crude jokes about assassination. Keep it to yourself or go post someplace else.
Red Sox cancelled – playing tomorrow.
On the payroll – who on the list is overpaid? Matsui, Damon (maybe), who else?
I have no idea how all the weather sites say something different from the same hours in Baltimore
Weather.com says cloudy with only 20% chance of rain from 2 PM on, the rest seem to say there is a high probability of rain.
THE JOE BIDEN!!! How exciting.
Bad umpire calls is the one way MLB makes sure the Yankees don’t win the World Series. It gives the umpires the ability to tip the games based on their bias’. I am all for the Zone Evaluation.
and after the first ten games the yankees record will be???
I think 7-3
The usual early April poor scheduling. Seattle at Minnesota when both have domed stadiums. The Rays playing at Boston while their domed stadium remains idle.
Pete, were you refering to comments that have been removed? Didn’t see the assasination stuff anywhere, but agree that’s just stupid…I heard on the radio this morning that they could not play in Tampa this week because the ballpark is being used as the staging ground for some kind of race…
but there are a multitude of other scheduling occurences that make poor use of warm weather facilities…for instance, the A’ and the Angels play each other in an opening series leaving one warm weather ball park empty…
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