President Obama reaches across the (baseball) aisle to congratulate the Cubs

Tom Gatto

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President Obama reaches across the (baseball) aisle to congratulate the Cubs image

President Barack Obama does not hide his allegiance to the White Sox. He certainly didn't on Tuesday night when he saluted Chicago's other baseball team for winning a playoff series.

Some White Sox fans might tell the POTUS "Speak for yourself," but Obama knows which way the winds are blowing in the Windy City right now: at the Cubs' backs.  

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Cubs right-hander Trevor Cahill cautioned the president about his new-found admiration for the North Siders.

"As long as he doesn't tweet that we won the series when there's still two innings to play," Cahill said, per MLB.com, referring to the ill-fated tweet by the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during Monday's Royals-Astros game.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.