While nearly every person in America with even the slightest interest in the future of our fine country was paying attention to the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon, a couple of Phillies were contractually obligated to entertain luncheon guests at Citizens Bank Park.

One of those fellers was the Phillies newly re-signed lefty specialist, California native Scott Eyre. So, being the astute beat writer that he is, Randy Miller asked Eyre what he thought about our 44th president:

“I’m not going to lie; I didn’t vote for (President Obama),” Eyre said. “I did it for selfish reasons, but I really think he’s going to do a good job after paying attention to him.”

Now, I’m not here to knock anyone’s political stance. For one, I didn’t even vote (in my defense, voting took place while I was working a 12-hour day and by the time I got home Obama was already declared the PA winner) and for two, I frankly don’t give a shit what Scott Eyre thinks about politics as long as he comes in and strikes out Carlos Delgado a few times a year. But what were these “selfish reasons” he was talking about?

From the same article:

Eyre doesn’t follow politics much either, but voted for John McCain last November after his financial advisor told him that Obama planned to increase taxes if elected president.

hahahahahahahaahaha

I guess we can be thankful most people in America aren’t rich enough to have a financial advisor on our payroll. Can you imagine how lame a John McCain presidential ball would have been?

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