Buehrle shutout by Blagojevich
UPDATE:Asked in an email about the Buehrle oversight, a Blagojevich spokesman said the governor sent Buehrle a personal letter and proclaimed White Sox day after the World Series.
I'm sure that'll satisfy Sox fans' notion of fairness
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A dailyherald.com reader going by SoxFan83 asked a very good question this morning.
“So when was Buehrle day last April?”
On Sunday, Cubs’ ace Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter and Gov. Rod Blagojevich responded by declaring Tuesday “Carlos Zambrano Day” in Illinois.
Last year, Mark Buehrle tossed a no-hitter for the White Sox.
The response from the administration?
(cue the chirping crickets)
Looks like Blagojevich threw a shutout right back at Buehrle.
I searched via Google and Yahoo, then went to the state Web site and searched all the governor’s news releases.
Nothing.
In case you hadn’t figured it out, the governor is a Cubs fan.
Boy you're really up on your local politics JP!
Only a hermit would not know Daley and Blago's baseball affiliations!
who they root for.
For that matter, I've got a glossy 8X10 of the Mr. Cubbie Blue governor in a Sox warmup jacket throwing out the first pitch at U.S. Cellular. There's something you don't see every day.
Anyway, the post was spurred by the governor declaring it Zambrano day because of the no-hitter but a keen reader pointing out he didn't do the same for Buehrle.
So I asked the gov's office: Home come?
Should the governor play fan favorite with state business, even fairly trivial things like declaring it "Zambrano Day"?
Perhaps when Obama's president, we'll have our own National White Sox day. I'd say that trumps a silly little Zambrano day in Illinois.
Yup and Mayor Daley is a Sox fan. I say it's a fair balance.