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Gov. Krispie Kreme takes in a ballgame:
Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son’s baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter.
Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field, a noise from above distracted the spectators as the 55-foot long helicopter buzzed over trees in left field, circled the outfield and landed in an adjacent football field. Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field.
During the 5th inning, Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie got into the car, rode back to the helicopter and left the game. During a pitching change, play was stopped for a couple of minutes while the helicopter took off.
Given his genetics, we can assume that Christie’s son plays…
Christie’s eldest son, Andrew, was the starting catcher for Delbarton High School, in Morris Township. The governor played the same position of catcher when he was in high school.
As a former Little League president I can tell you that the fat kid is always the catcher.
Always.
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Was the ballfield inaccessible by foot? As in, surrounded by a moat? Encircled by manticores? Defended by velociraptors? WTF?
I ask because to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if a suburban ballfield was reachable only by car, given how sidewalks are both gay and communist. Still, suck it up and walk on the grass.
A.
As a fat kid and former Little League-r, I can tell you that the fat kid was a late-inning replacement in right field.
Nah. I was a fat little right fielder before getting them to let me pitch. Luckily by high school I realized that baseball was a terrible, terrible excuse for a sport, barely better than golf.
Isn’t that nice? The Gov played the same position in high school. Did a car drive his fat ass from the dugout to home plate each inning?
And no thread about baseball and Christopher “Chris” Christie would be complete with out this:
“Lady, I’m not an athlete. I’m a professional baseball player.”
John Kruk
If they could drive a state car there, why couldn’t Governor Cartman have gone along for the ride? Turns out he didn’t need the Skyhook to get to the game, he needed it to get back to Trenton for a fundraiser with a bunch of Iowans. Which also explains why he upped and left with four innings left to play.
The chopper was bad enough; what was worse was sending a car and driver just because Tubby was unwilling or unable to waddle the length of a football field.
The one “fat kid” I know of who did really well at baseball was a guy who really wasn’t fat, just built like a wall: the late great Harmon Killebrew. And “fat kid” was what he was called in awe by the pitchers who had to face him.
The legend of Bibendum goes on…
Amen.
As a fat kid who played both catcher and right field, and was known for his ability to turn sure doubles into singles (My coaches cheered me on with “Run wheels run!”), let me tell you the only satisfying thing about baseball – when that cocky skinny kid who’d been riding me all game tried to steal home.
One minute he’s barreling down the base path,the next he’s flat on his back, and I’m delicately touching him with my catcher’s mitt, ten feet from the plate. The mothers on the other team are screaming about bullying, and I didn’t even throw an elbow.
Good times, good times.
And as a still bulky man, if I had to use a vehicle to transit 100 yards, it better be an ambulance.
He was sooooo family values for this photo op that he had to ditch the kid to make the Iowa meeting, can’t let the real important people wait, doncha know.
In his world it was a win-win, he gets the aw-shucks photo op and his booster meeting.
Douchebag is only the beginning for this guy, and antics like this don’t play well anywhere that’s not a gated community.
Another song springs to mind- ‘If I had a Rocket Launcher’, Bruce Cockburn. In light of the recent Memorial Day holiday, and my disabled, service-connected status, “if I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would pay!’
If you put fat kids in as catcher they won’t stay that way long in many cases, since it’s the most energy-consuming position on the field, bar none. Said as a former catcher who was broad-shouldered but definitely not fat.
Crouched down and springing up on every pitch ready to throw someone out at second burns a lot more calories than standing around in center field the whole game. Kids who were slow or out of shape would often get put at first base, since that requires the least movement of any position.
Best position on the field, catcher. You’ve got something to do every pitch, plus now and then nailing a runner with a strike to second thrown while barely out of the crouch — nothing better.
Maybe he was just showing off the new transit plan, since he screwed up our new rail tunnel. Helicopters and limos to work for everybody!
And how could he not think this would look bad? This douchebag has a big fall coming. Way too cocky.
Heh, as I remarked on another thread:
Well, what did you expect? He can’t take the train.
Turns out the gov has been fucking over the taxpayers for quite some time (via Steve Benen):
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/chris_christie_no_1_us_attorney_in_wasting_govt_travel_money.php?ref=fpblg
Did you smoke cigs, hidden behind your glove, like we did out center field way?
Oh, lay off the poor guy, Imagine how much energy it takes to carry 300 lbs. of lard 100 yards. The heavy breathing, the profuse sweating. It would have been the 5th inning by the time he got there.
Bravo.
No that was one drawback, kind of hard to get away with that with the umpire standing above you :) “Steerike…… *cough* …what the hell??”
I’d never smoked until playing high school ball. What the hell, indeed.
I was the catcher. Shaped rather like Ron Cey. Damned quick.
Still, a Gurl. My Grandpa was a semi-pro pitcher – he’d been offered a contract for teh St. Louis Browns, but his Mummy wouldn’t let him take it çause it wasn’t steady. So he trained to be a machinist, but in his spare time he pitched. His only child, my Mummy, he taught how to throw and how to catch and She Taught Me.
Years later, I taught Green Berets how to throw things…. Most of them threw like gurls…..
Along with all the charming inside-baseball chatter from you former child athletes, I’m enjoying this offhanded slagging of Christie very very much, being a villein attached to his manor. Me being laid off and trying to freelance, and my sister being disabled, we were able to get the New Jersey form of food stamp assistance (a natty little ATM card) , to the tune of about $400 per month. Enter Christie, champion of free enterprise and healthy living. My sibling and I are now cut to just over $16/month each. If her Social Security disability hadn’t come through when it did, we’d have been in a fine pickle.
Christie really is a rat’s ass. If he were a good guy, or even a halfway decent one, he could rival the Goodyear blimp – like CongressHuman Jerry Nadler of NY did before he had his stomach stapled – and we hardly utter a peep. But somehow the combo of arrogance, slavering ambition, heartlessness, opportunism, lying, bullying, pandering, preening AND rolls of pampered lard is too much.
Of course his kids go to Delbarton.
Were we on the same team? I know I let A LOT of singles turn into easy doubles while I found a safe spot for my smoke before trying to “make a play”. I blamed our pitchers for letting those guys get a hit in the first place. If they’d worked harder us outfielders could’ve enjoyed the games a lot more!
All I could think while listening to this story was, well, if he wasn’t fat before, he will be soon. That’s one of the ways you get that way.
Maybe we won’t have to worry about his political future…he’s bound to have a stroke or a massive heart attack pretty soon.
No, I am not wishing him ill…just saying it’s pretty nearly a forgone conclusion.
Plentry of fat kids with good hands get to play first base, cause pretty much all you need to do is catch.
Maybe the righties are catchers and the lefties play first?
I saw the photo op picture. The helicopter was the one with the yellow stripe. Right?
The park may not be stressed like the JFK runway, to accept thousands of pounds tapered down to two tiny points of surface contact. Additionally, the spectacle of the governor lumbering up from a hundred yards away may have been more disruptive to the game than the helicopter/limosine arrival or the landing of the Hindenberg. I would, however, have liked to watch him take a seat in the bleachers.
And now, Governor “Sandwiches” refuses to reimburse the taxpayers, because his personal travel is necessary. Bull. Effing. Shit. This clown is raping the state of NJ for his own comfort and ease of travel. Impeach this fat clown right now! I’m so glad I live in NY, but thanks for canceling the tunnel, asshole.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/06/gov-christie-refuses-to-reimburse-state.html
Way to go, Governor Engelbert. If I can haul my even heavier ass across campus to work every day, you can walk a hunnert yards.
Somehow, in Minnesota, my money probably went to that.
Oudemia, you sound like a local. You in Morris County too?
Delbarton is a ritzy Catholic boys’ prep set picturesquely on the former grounds of a wealthy 19th Century industrialists’ estate. Typical Old Jersey Money deal. Our Congressman is from a family that’s been in public life/making dough off the hoi polloi since before the Revolutionary War. People who think of NJ just in terms of the Philly-to-NY corridor or The Sopranos don’t realize we’ve got our very own entrenched, yea, landed aristocracy. Jackie Kennedy used to keep her hunters (horses, that is)a mere 20 mins. drive south of where I sit at this computer.
I grew up in Morris County and was about to chime in with what sudoise pointed out. I went to Morristown High and got a fine education thank you very much. Of course that was 30 years ago so who know how the state managed to screw up the educational system.
I speak better than I type – so I really did get a great education