If You Never Played Baseball, Don’t Use the Analogy
By Larry Johnson on March 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM in Current Affairs
New rule–if you are an Obama political appointee you may not use a sports metaphor unless you played the damn sport. OMB Director, Peter Orszag, got caught today talking about something he did not understand:
President Obama’s budget director told CNN’s John King the spending bill before Congress right now is “uglier than we’d like,” but insisted the administration had little power to change it — and little choice but to support it, to preserve funding for key White House priorities.
“This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning, and wanting to redo the whole game,” said Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag on State of the Union Sunday. “Next year we’re going to be the starting pitcher, and the game’s going to be completely different.”
Let’s face it. Peter Orszag probably did not even play t-ball. He was the uber geek in school that was chosen last unless it was an opening for the chess team. Peter, apart from the fact that you have a serious testosterone deficit and your voice sounds like Mickey Mouse, you clearly don’t know dick about baseball. While I did not play professional ball, I know quite a bit. In the year before starting high school I was one of the catchers for Rick Sutcliffe, who subsequently pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.
Listen to this patent nonsense from Orszag.
Okay Peter, here is the deal. Baseball games normally last nine ininings but can be extended to extra innings if the two teams are tied at the end of nine. Each team gets three outs per inning. So, to use your analogy, the spending bill before Congress is the equivalent of one team in an extra inning ball game. The normal time for the game (i.e., the last session of Congress) expired. Since a final bill was not passed and sent to the President to sign, the damn game is still on!! Nobody has changed any rules. In fact, once Congress acts your ridiculous excuse for a leader gets to play his legal, constitutional role. It is called a veto and your President’s chances of prevailing are excellent because you control the Congress. Are you really this stupid?
A good relief pitcher can come into a game with the bases loaded and no outs and can strike out the side and save the day for his team. Satchel Paige, a great pitcher, understood this. But Barack Obama? He can’t find the mound and is clueless, apparently, to the fact that he can change the day. Barack, you promised to eliminate earmarks and change the culture in Washington. But you now demonstrate by your inaction that your talk is cheap and meaningless. Rather than do what you promised to do you send the infant Orszag out with this lame ass, stupid excuse that you guys are late in a ball game and somehow, cannot do what you are legally and morally empowered to do.
Change we can believe in? No. Bamboozled up the ass? Hell yes!!
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