Does President Obama always hold a baseball bat while talking on the phone?

Sometimes I'll be on the phone with a friend and minutes into the conversation, I'll hear them, out of nowhere, order a cheeseburger or something. I'll say, "Where are you? I thought you were home." "Oh no, man. I'm ordering a cheeseburger, didn't you hear me?"

The point I'm getting at is that it's impossible to know if the person you are chatting with on the phone is actually distracted with something else. Just ask Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey.

Back on July 30th, Erdoğan was on the phone with President Obama. They were probably discussing important things like oil prices and nuclear space programs or whatever.

Little did he know that Obama probably had the White Sox on his mind the whole time.

--Jeremy Moses

(photo via the White House)