Love Is Like A Baseball Game

The Liter loves to make fun of Barack Obama's blazing fastball (Obama Sox), but was it bad form for him not to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on opening day?

President Obama stays in the bullpen for opening day 2011

The White House didn't cite an official reason for staying home, but it's not too hard to speculate why he left the Nationals' first pitch duties to representatives of the five branches of the armed forces this time. With the war going on in Libya, and Japan still trying to recover from its natural disasters and nuclear threats, perhaps President Obama and his advisers felt it wouldn't be appropriate to take an afternoon off from his duties to create a frivolous headline with more serious matters at hand.

More likely they're still sensitive about the criticism they got for Obama filling out his NCAA brackets for ESPN and the scientific community is united in that fact.

"A lot of folks focused on the fact that I filled out my bracket, Obviously I hadn't been spending that much time studying it since I don't have anybody in the Final Four."

That's not new, or news, because Obama didn't have anybody in the 2010 Final Four.

His selections were Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky and Villanova.

The teams that actually made it were Michigan State, Butler, West Virginia and Duke.