Red Sox sharing the same hotel as President Obama
Boston Red Sox interim manager Torey Lovullo was just 10 minutes late. Had he decided to go to the hotel gym just 10 minutes earlier, he could have been reunited with his old pal President Barack Obama.
"I just missed the president," Lovullo told the media via MLB.com. "He had left the workout room about 10 minutes before I got in there. But he just walked in there as a civilian, which is great. Everybody got wanded before they went in there from what I heard."
Lovullo hopes to have better luck on Tuesday, though.
"The moral of the story is I'm working out earlier tomorrow," Lovullo said. "It's exciting that we're staying at the same place as the president of the United States."
Lovullo and Obama met back in 2014 when the then-World Series champions Red Sox visited the White House - something Lovullo is sure the president doesn't forget.
"I'm going up to him. You know why? He invited me to his house two years ago," Lovullo said. "I'm going to say, 'I came to your house and I sat on your South Lawn.' He's going to remember me, no doubt in my mind. If he's a civilian, you don't feel like I can pull that one off? Maybe go over and do a couple of curls and say, 'Hey, it's me, Torey."'
Of course, all of this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but you have to respect his confidence.
