Audio: White Sox fan-in-chief still calling it “Cominskey Park”
posted at 4:10 pm on April 6, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Real Clear Sports. Alternate headline: “Blogger can’t believe he’s still getting content out of the Nats’ opener two days later.” You’d better hope some real news breaks within the next few hours to liven up this slower-than-slow week or else I warn you: Tonight it might be “all iPad, all the time” at ye olde blog homestead.
The “Cominskey Park” reference is indefensible — repeat after me, “kuh-MISS-kee” — but it is a mild improvement over “Cominskey Field,” which is what he used to call their former home stadium. As for him not being able to name any ChiSox players from when he was growing up, while it’s funny to hear him gag on the question, he does say he was an A’s fan at the time. No shortage of greats there — Catfish, Vida Blue, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Rollie Fingers, and of course Reggie — but alas, they didn’t ask him to name any. Can you imagine if they had and he blanked on a team that threepeated in the early 70s? Baseball cred gone instantly, and forever.
His approval rating in Illinois is down to 50/42, but after the south side hears about this, net negatives aren’t out of the question.
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50% approval in Illinois? He’s in trouble.
Doughboy on April 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM
I hope you’re kidding. I saw him throw.
faraway on April 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM
I really don’t believe this. He’s still hailed as almost a god here.
As for his baseball cred, he never had it in the first place. Even by his own account he’s a basketball man. He probably doesn’t even know the infield fly rule.
jwolf on April 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Well, there was that mining accident. I was surprised to see nothing about it here.
I’m not sure how much of a fan Obama really is…
changer1701 on April 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Comiskey, Cominskey,–all those Eastern Europeans look the same to him.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on April 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM
But at least he’s got a strong arm….oh wait, nevermind. President Mom Jeans can’t throw it into Lake Michigan standing on the shore.
search4truth on April 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM
I love me some blue collar balls.
—heretic of the united states
daesleeper on April 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM
At least he’s getting his rambling non-answer time down from 17 minutes.
red winger on April 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM
CoMINskey???
Allah, here’s a better sports-gem that deserves an ‘Update from the comments:’
Obama: “Penn State NITALLY Lions”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLTekcur-E
*FACEPALM*
battleoflepanto1571 on April 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM
I’ll bet he can name all of the famous Marxists and socialists of the last 50 years who make Chicago their home.
Mojave Mark on April 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM
The way Obama throws a baseball strenghtens the Birther’s case. No American I know throws like such a puss.
And ‘Cominskey’ should betray him as a fraud to all of Chicago’s South Side.
chalons on April 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Doesn’t matter. He could be at 20/80 but 2 hours after the polls close Cook County will “find” some more boxes. Happens every close election.
battleoflepanto1571 on April 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM
All image no substance…still an empty suit. Who did we elect POTUS?
d1carter on April 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM
You know you know
you know how dumb he sounds without a TelePrompter?
But he’s got the “so eloquent!” card for life, you know.
Marcus on April 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Kaminsky Park, Lambert Field, whatever …
DaydreamBeliever on April 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM
dude, Levin led off with this clip last night. I was effing howling. “so who was your favorite player?” Ummmm…uhhhh….holy crap I just got caught as a baseball fan poseur and can’t remember anyone who plaid for the team that I’m a poseur fan of right now that helped me establish my Chicago street cred….
and in the next breath says he was a Cubs fan too!! I betcha that went over like a fart in church at all those Sox fan hangouts in Chicago…
Politician posing as sports fan to get him black street cred to assuage his upbringing by non-Sox fans.
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
In Kenya, it’s pronounced “Kah-Minns-key” Park.
portlandon on April 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
..Nellie Fox, Luis Apricio, Klu, Larry Doby? Only made it to the “World Serious”.
VoyskaPVO on April 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
Obama is not a basketball man. he plays one on one where there is no reff. That way he calls the shots and can cheat.
He is a poser.
seven on April 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
ALLAH!!!!
Even better…
Teddy Kennedy destroys the intro of the ’98 home run kings… instead of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, he says, I kid you not…
MIKE McGwire and Sammy SOOSER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AggeSjZwx6s
*DOUBLE FACEPALM DEMOCRATS!*
battleoflepanto1571 on April 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
Hey, is there a Monday Night Football game this next season at Sailor Field?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:20 PM
I bet this joker would muck up his own damned funeral.
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:20 PM
“Cominskey?”
Sounds communist.
percysunshine on April 6, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Isn’t that what he swatted during that one interview?
mwdiver on April 6, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Eh, that was a tiny bit before his time.
Allahpundit on April 6, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Just don’t ever call it Wrigley “Stadium”. Jeff Gordon did that during the 7th inning stretch at a Cubs game and the entire crowd booed him for the duration of “Take Me Out To the Ballgame”.
Doughboy on April 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM
But he didn’t grow up in Chicago. No, I’m not a Birther, but he really didn’t go to Chicago until after college.
YYZ on April 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM
He should… his pitch yesterday qualified as one…
BPD on April 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Cominskey Park. Maybe it is Austrian.
mwdiver on April 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Future headline:
“Thousands Turn Out for Obama Funeral; Corpse Causes Disruption”
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Sounds more like Comitskey.
Abby Adams on April 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM
John Kerry would have said Kandinsky Field.
YYZ on April 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM
now there’s a misplaced qualifier in that statement…
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Seriously, how hard is it to name just one favorite player?
Scrappy on April 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM
A southside kid? Is he talking about southside Jakarta?
ButterflyDragon on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Rush was talking about this in the last hour of his show today. If there was any possibility of getting through, I would have called when Rush reported that various Chicagoans apparently pronounce the word that way and that maybe The One had picked it up there and allowed that maybe he should be excused?
Not so fast. The One is meticulous in his pronounciations. Take “Pakistan.” Most of us say, “pack-i-stan” with the “stan” pronounced like “Stan the man.” Not The One. He says it reverently, “Pahk-e-stahn”, just a little bit stacatto.
I think he’s just clueless. Much like the commercials where people mess up lyrics to oldies. The Archies’ Sugar Pie Honey Bunch turns into Sugar Pie Honey Butts.
EconomicNeocon on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
He is a poser.
DrStock on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Wait now…………..weren’t the Messiah and Mrs. Messiah crowned in a Greek Temple in Denver……………doesn’t that mean that both they and Zeus don’t have to know that it’s Fenway Park, and Busch Stadium ……….and Comiskey Park…………he’s above all that………after all he was born in Kenya, ……….err………Indonesia………err….Iran……….hell I can’t remember………some AAA-rab place……..he and Mrs. Messiah look so fine sitting on “his” and “her” camels outside the Mosque!
Cinday Blackburn on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
According to Rush today, “Cominsky” sounds a lot like “Alinsky”. This might be a better Freudian slippage of the tongue.
davek70 on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
You can tell alot about some one’s athletic ability even when they’re not doing something they’re supposed to be ‘good’ at.
I’ll bet you he sucks at basketball too.
Out loud.
BigWyo on April 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Yeah. Remember he once called it “Cominskey Field.” He got it confused with Wrigley. I think he’s just not much of a baseball fan.
Allahpundit on April 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Or maybe Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes?
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Well, you see, it’s like this. You go to Chicago, sit in the Rev’s church (don’t learn anything) and call the Sox your team (and don’t learn any of the players). Sensing a pattern here?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM
In his defense, he was told how to pronounce it by a corpseman he knows.
SailorDave on April 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Feel fortunate he didn’t filibuster for 17 minutes. Perhaps this will end his baseball intrusions.
a capella on April 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Communinsky Park…
PatriotRider on April 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM
C’mon, AP! He’s his own best fan, and that’s where it begins and ends. All else doesn’t quite rate with him.
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Obama used Chicago to establish his “down with the struggle” street cred
Data Point 1: Going to Rev Wright’s Church
Data Point 2: Marrying Mrs. Obama
Data Point 3: Baseball fan fail
say it ain’t so….?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM
As someone emailed El Rushbo today, Barry is confusing Comiskey with Alinsky which brings us to Cominsky.
In Barry’s honor I recommend that henceforth we call him and his comrades “Cominskys” (instead of Communists/Socialists/Liberals/Progressives/Alinskyites or whatever the heck they are).
Buy Danish on April 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM
But he is so cerebral…….
portlandon on April 6, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Where I’m from, you got no street cred till you off a stranger for your initiation.
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Is that like nukular?
saiga on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
he sure is, right up until the point where he encounters facts. Then the cerebral-ness kinda looks like it falls apart.
please, no iPads tonight ap
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
But he didn’t grow up in Chicago. No, I’m not a Birther, but he really didn’t go to Chicago until after college.
YYZ on April 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Who cares where he grew up? If he claims he’s a Sox fan and can’t come up with Harold Baines or some other long-term fan favorite on the South Side, who was still playing when he moved there, then Obummer is nothing but a liar on this subject.
I’m a Cardinals fan who grew up in Illinois. Proximity to one’s favorite team should have nothing to do with the ability to name a favorite player or two.
Lou Brock, Willie McGee, Albert Pujols. See? It’s not hard.
NebCon on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
In fairness, WGN wasn’t part of the standard cable package in Nairobi.
(I KID! I KID! Birthers=teh suck. Every time they roll out that orly taitz IDIOT on msnbc i die i a little on the inside… But you just left that one hanging for a grand slam….)
battleoflepanto1571 on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Are you insinuating that he would portray himself as a White Sox fan to ingratiate himself with his adopted hometown? It was all a charade?
My world is crushed!!!
WashJeff on April 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
o_0
Abby Adams on April 6, 2010 at 4:32 PM
howdy stranger!/
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:32 PM
At the 14-15 second mark — he steps on both lines. You don’t step on the lines if you know anything about baseball.
EconomicNeocon on April 6, 2010 at 4:32 PM
I don’t know why people are making such a big deal about President Obama not naming his favorite White Sox.
I mean sure, he could have named an individual like Ernie Banks. Our President, though, is a team player, and it should be apparent to everyone that in his heart he holds great admiration and respect for the 1919 squad that made it to the World Series.
malclave on April 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
LOL
Bet I’m stranger than you…
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
yeah, but they were “white lines….”….make more sense now?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
Why not? “Cominskey” rhymes with Alinsky.
Scott P on April 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM
I’m a little skeptical about this-I lived in Hawaii in the 1960s and most baseball fans those days cheered for the local AAA Hawaii Islanders, and also the southern California MLB teams like the Dodgers and Angels, and soon after that the Padres (who were originally a PCL team like the Islanders).
The Oakland A’s didn’t even arrive in Oakland until around 1970 or so.
Del Dolemonte on April 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM
But hey, how about Mark Buehrle making the play of the year on Opening Day? GOTTA watch it!
WashJeff on April 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Dem smart peeple dont gotta no nuttin bout no sports stuff.
VibrioCocci on April 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM
you said it, I didn’t.
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM
The One (in a Saturday Night Live reset):
EconomicNeocon on April 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Oh, so you are saying they were right-wing, teabagging, racist, Timothy McVeigh lines?
mwdiver on April 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM
But after college, he lived in Chicago long enough (20+ years?) to at least have some knowledge of who the best players were.
Del Dolemonte on April 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Obama’s favorite baseball player?
Fidel Castro
DamnCat on April 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Que pendejo.
princetrumpet on April 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM
that’s your metaphor… I was just making an observation../
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Well, it’s not like the other dem nominee was any better.
Wasn’t she a “LIFELONG CUBS FAN”???
Oops: http://www.uglyhats.com/pics/yankees_cap_hillary_clinton.jpg
battleoflepanto1571 on April 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Yeah, he’s a real “Southside kid”.
carbon_footprint on April 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM
He’s a White Sox fan because the Daley Machine told him so. He’s all yours Knucklehead.
As for myself, there’s always next year (Cub fan).
CTSherman on April 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Wasn’t that just mind blowing?
Scott P on April 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM
He reminds me of all the kids I knew in junior high who’d wear a White Sox hat just because it looked cool.
He can’t be fooling anyone at this point, and it was in serious bad form for him to wear that hat to that game – especially since it’s obvious he’s not a real fan.
Esthier on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Obama just got caught without a teleprompter! He’s a great speaker as long as someone can hold his hand. Now if only someone could dress him properly…..
search4truth on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
25 West Virginians died in a mine explosion and four are still missing. I guess that’s not news.
hollygolightly on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
But I’m sure glad we don’t have that stupid Bush in the White House any longer. Always mispronouncing everything…
carbon_footprint on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Close. In 1968 they moved to Oakland. Kansas City A’s prior to moving to Oakland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Athletics
mwdiver on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
what I want to know if there was any fairness instituted at this baseball game. Did slower runners get more time to run the bases, were the walls brought in closer for the weaker batters, was the salaries of the higher paid players confiscated and spread around so that the younger, poorer, and more diverse players could have some “opportunity?”
that’s what I want to know….
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Sailor’s Fields, where George Pallas’s Chicago Boors play? Or is that Marshall Field’s…?
Lurking Vet on April 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM
I don’t mind owning up. Keeps the libs more off balance. Not that they’re balanced to begin with.
Can you believe this guy they elected? He doesn’t know the first thing about American culture. I’m no sports fan, mind you, so I either stay out of sports talk or brush up. This clown can’t do either; he needs to be in the limelight and the MSM luuuuuvs him for it!
I bet this fool in a $1200 suit will pick the 1969 Miracle Mets to win the Series this year. If Obow was any more lame, even his politics would need a walking stick.
Liam on April 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Is that from when he was “growing up” though? I mean, emotional maturity aside, isn’t growing up pre-college?
Which leads to a more important question. If you’re a sports fan in Hawaii, what team would you naturally follow? I’m guessing the Dodgers in baseball, 49ers in football, and Lakers in basketball, but those are just guesses.
YYZ on April 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Hey, Chicago! You got used!
Looks like we’re all Chicago now.
BOHICA
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM
LOOLLLOL a walking stick!! can he switch hit with that thing when he dish out some justice?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Like I always say in these situations (which happen often), It’s okay to not be a baseball fan. It’s okay to not even be a sports fans of any kind. What isn’t okay is to lie about it in an attempt to ingratiate yourself with voters.
I’m sure the POTUS could talk for hours about the NBA because he seems like a genuine hoops fan. Nothing wrong with that. He should stick to it.
TheBigOldDog on April 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM
I think he’s purposely making a mockery of our nation. He could care less about anything American. The Air Force One incident over NYC is another good example of him having his own sick fun.
pixelman on April 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM
What’s your favorite flavor of icecream?
Well, I’m a huge fan of icecream. Back when I was a kid and the icecream truck came around, see back them I was living in Hawaii, and well, they had shaved ice. I used to like to get shaved ice sometimes but then I moved to chicago and I had to get used to the fact that there weren’t shaved ice huts around so I started to get into slurpees instead. Now the local 7-Eleven had a lot of flavors and whenever I went in there the guy would try to sell me scratch off lottery tickets. So I ended up spending all my money on lotto tickets and I didn’t have any left over to get a slurpee.
Errr, what was the question?
Scrappy on April 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM
If he was such a big baseball fan, you’d think he could’ve learned to throw ….
Maybe it was a fisting sprain….i dunno…?
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Betcha he can rattle off the five pillars of Islam and the 11 Imams.
NoDonkey on April 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM
he does the revised pillars—there’s 7 now. They include the two styrofoam ones he had on the field the day of the immaculation
ted c on April 6, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Obama is a turd.
But Jesus, if people support or don’t support a politican based on his knowledge of baseball stadiums, this country is in more trouble than I thought.
Someone running for president could claim that he witnessed the NY Dodgers beat the St. Louis Blues in the 2010 Final 4 Rose Bowl held in Augusta, GA on the 3rd Wednesday in February. And if he promised to lower my taxes, I’d still vote for him.
angryed on April 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
This is how you do it, son:
princetrumpet on April 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
He lived there 20 years and can’t name one player!! He brought up the Cubs then didn’t name any!!
Talk about transparency: Obooba’s a transparent phony in every respect.
Akzed on April 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
He is so smart and well-spoken./
CWforFreedom on April 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
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