day in the early '60s, when they still tossed it from the stands. today barack obama threw it from the mound. the whole 60'6". i know how hard it is. i once tried throwing a fastball from the mound at a aa game in connecticut. it was a duster. so i was ready to get it over the plate at a nationals game. it went up just a little, outside. the great thing about the opening day pitch, we honor the president as chief of state. as head of the country. not as chief executive, the person who runs the executive branch, as head of the administration. not as the person heading up the government or leading one of the political parties but as the representative of the american people. and the republic itself. it's not a regime or a junta, as rush limbaugh says it is, even as the electrical college majority was awarded to george w. bush in the year 2000, it was president bush, the chief of state. this use of the word regime by limbaugh is causing trouble, to provoke. other people have used it on occasion. byron york discovered i used it