Paul Lo Duca Will Only Catch Odalis Perez on Sunday Night
Posted Mar 28th 2008 11:30AM by Josh Alper
Filed under: Washington, DC, Nationals, NL East
The Washington Nationals have apparently decided to be good neighbors to the rest of the District in their new ballyard. Tongues have been wagging about how the team would handle President Bush's first pitch on Sunday. Their catcher, Paul Lo Duca, was one of the stars of the Mitchell Report and Bush spent a large chunk of his 2004 State of the Union decrying steroids in sports. The sight of Lo Duca grinning and trotting to shake the President's hand after the toss is probably one Bush's team would like to avoid.
The Nats are willing to play ball. Rather than risk embarassing the President, manager Manny Acta will catch the pitch instead and Bush can serve out the rest of his Presidency with his dignity and reputation intact. Er, well, he'll get to serve it out without having a picture of him shaking hands with Paul Lo Duca anyway.
As embarassing as such a snapshot could be, Bush isn't out of the woods just yet. An enterprising photographer could find a way to snap the President listening to Lastings Milledge spin rhymes on his turntables. Or what if Elijah Dukes decides to show Dubya how one sends text messages on a cellphone, dawg? Talk about awkward.
Filed under: Washington, DC, Nationals, NL East
The Nats are willing to play ball. Rather than risk embarassing the President, manager Manny Acta will catch the pitch instead and Bush can serve out the rest of his Presidency with his dignity and reputation intact. Er, well, he'll get to serve it out without having a picture of him shaking hands with Paul Lo Duca anyway.
As embarassing as such a snapshot could be, Bush isn't out of the woods just yet. An enterprising photographer could find a way to snap the President listening to Lastings Milledge spin rhymes on his turntables. Or what if Elijah Dukes decides to show Dubya how one sends text messages on a cellphone, dawg? Talk about awkward.
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