Sox GM Kenny Williams seemed quite moved by the election of Barack Obama. And guess what? He talked to the press about it.
“It was a surreal moment,” said Williams, one of baseball’s two African-American general managers and a friend of Obama’s. “It was overwhelming and just a tremendous feeling of pride.
“The fact that Barack is biracial can bring us together in a much greater way than we can imagine.”
Williams’ Obama-fever moved him to extended an invite to Obama, who is a Sox fan, to throw out the first pitch in the opening game of the 2009 season.
It won’t be the first time. The president-elect was handed the ball for Game 2 of the 2005 ALCS against the Angels.
“They were 0-1 at the time, but they won eight straight,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune in 2005. “I’m not saying there is a correlation, but I e-mailed [White Sox chairman Jerry] Reinsdorf and said if they start getting in a jam, my arm was rested. I was ready to go.”
Don’t expect to see any Barack action in Wrigley, though. He’s made it clear he’s no Cub fan.