Buehrle pitches perfect game; gets congratulatory call from Obama

Pretty cool that our president is so open about his sports fanship; a lot of politicians try to play to the center and assuage both sides (Richardson famously said that he was both Red Sox and Yankees fan while on the campaign trail).

But Obama is a partisan White Sox fan; the's not a Cubs fan even though he's from Chicago -- he'a a Southsider.

And today White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game. Naturally, Obama called him up from his motorcade to congratulate him.

After the game he was treated to congratulation from one of the team's biggest fans, President Obama. Obama called Buehrle from his motorcade this afternoon and congratulated him on the "extraordinary achievement." He joked with Buehrle that perhaps the pitcher had gotten gained some luck from the fact that Obama wore a White Sox team jacket when he threw out the first pitch at last week's Major League Baseball All Star Game.

"As a fan it's extraordinary. When you're a White Sox fan and you know the guy who did it, it makes it that much better," Obama said in a conversation with White house Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.