The President of the United States supposedly upset the MLB brass by wearing a Chicago White Sox jacket when throwing the first pitch at the All-Star Game last weekend. And all I can say is that whatever pisses off stodgy, white baseball owners is good for America.

[Obama senior advisor David] Axelrod said he had a long talk with Obama before the game because some Major League Baseball executives weren’t happy about the decision.

“There was a big controversy,” he said. “I think Major League Baseball wanted him to wear the All-Star jacket, and he was intent on wearing his White Sox jacket. He prevailed in that. The thing I will say about him — I’ll give him this — he’s not a Cub-hater. He will allow that he wants the Cubs to do well. It’s just that between the two of them, he prefers the White Sox. via.

I think most fans appreciated the fact that Barack Obama stuck with his team, whether or not those people were Sox fans themselves. Now if we could just do something about those jeans. via.

If anyone can screw Stan Musial out of the national recognition he’s sought for so long–and be applauded for it–it’s America’s sitting president. Here’s Barack Obama’s ceremonial first pitch. Oh, but Stan the Man was allowed to deliver the ball to the President. Wow, what a treat. But then why the ridiculous camera angle for the pitch? One of the biggest questions heading into the game was, “Will Obama throw a strike?” We had to wait almost an hour to see for sure that, in fact, he did not. And for all that time I thought that his first pitch was too big to fail…

Still haven’t signed up for a NCAA bracket pool? Join St. Andrew’s Pool (Pw: debruin). It’s free and totally pointless.

Barack Obama’s NCAA bracket will be posted online at ESPN.com sometime today. Which is great, because he can’t seem to pass a budget or stop any of the bailout money from being blown on private jets and upscale whores. I think it’s the first time a sitting president has ever wasted his time in such a public fashion. The whole reason Clinton never did this was because Clinton always had seven teams in his Final Four.

The First Hoops Fan indulged in one of the week’s most popular pastimes, filling out his NCAA bracket Tuesday for ESPN. The network, which is posting Obama’s bracket online Wednesday and showing Andy Katz’s report on “Sportscenter” at noon EDT, will reveal the president’s pick for NCAA champion then.

The president stuck primarily with No. 1 seeds. The sole exception was Memphis, seeded No. 2 behind Connecticut in the West regional.[...]

Katz extracted a promise from Obama that if elected, the new president would reveal his NCAA picks to ESPN when the pairings were announced in March.

I understand that Barack has his own NCAA pool going, and if you correctly predict the final four, you win $100 billion in bailout money and free health care for life. Oh, but he’s more personable than Dick Cheney, so I guess I can’t make fun of him. You think AIG would be buying whores under a Cheney administration? Hell, no. Edward Liddy would wake up with like three whores’ bloody heads tucked into his sheets. Whores’ heads. See what I did there?

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