John McEnroe Threw An All-Time Great First Pitch Before Last Night's Mets-Yankees Game
Look at Johnny Mac bringing the fucking HEAT before last night’s Subway Series game. Sure wearing the number 31 literally two days after it was retired is cocky as hell, but that’s just John McEnroe again thumbing his nose at society again. Anyway back to the pitch.
Anyone that tosses from the rubber instantly gets respect from the crowd. So many more things can go wrong with your pitch if you aren’t throwing from the grass, but it’s a big boy move similar to playing Madden on All Madden. But to fire in a goddamn dart that was jussssst a bit outside was impressive as fuck. It’s a goddamn shame that McEnroe spent his whole career playing a racket sport, like if Will Hunting lived out the rest of his days as an anonymous janitor of MIT. The Mets could have used a lefty like McEnroe before dumping $36 million into Ollie Perez or signing a bum like Antonio Bastardo or trading that bum Bastardo to get Jon Niese back. Serving someone’s ass like John McEnroe would mean something completely different if he was tossing BBs out of the pen like Andrew Miller instead of screaming at line judges at snooty country clubs.
And since we are talking first pitches at Citi Field, I have to include the classic 50 Cent first pitch, complete with the Vlady Guerrero Photoshop (or whatever the video version of Photoshop is). Classic mashup.
Plus the gold standard of all first pitches. George W. Bush throwing a picture-esque strike from 60’6″ away while wearing a bulletproof vest and the entire world watching before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series.