During some of the recent inter-league baseball action, my 9-year-old son remarked that it would be cool if Senator Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at one of the tense Cubs vs. White Sox games in the Windy City.
But which hat would he wear, Cubs or White Sox, I asked him. (Obama is a Sox fan, but he may need transplanted Cubs fans to carry important swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin. I remembered how silly Hillary Clinton looked when she first put on her Yankees cap and tried to pretend she had New York in her blood (we were going to vote for her anyway, no need to pretend!)
Americans (and Chicagoans) like authenticity and decisiveness in their athletic fanaticism and boosterism.
That’s only one reason they should dig “info junkie,” Illinois Network of Charter Schools boss (and lifelong Democrat) Elizabeth Evans — who not only has some of Carlton Fisk’s blood running through her veins, she attends 25-30 White Sox games a season, according to this light profile in Chicago Business.
The edu-politics in the Second City are going to get interesting.