Charlie Crist Enters the Hall of Fame…

…of bad first pitches. Crist did the honors at the Tampa Bay Rays game today. It appeared to be the first time in his life he has ever thrown a baseball:

Some of us still have fond memories of President Bush’s first pitch in the 2001 World Series. Marco Rubio attended college on a football scholarship and, while he didn’t turn out to be a star football player, it is safe to assume that he could pitch a baseball without looking like he had never hurled an object before. I don’t believe there is any scientific study analyzing the correlation between first pitch competence and electability, but I have no doubt that at some level, the correlation exists.

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