These days, Josh Earnest has a lot more time to watch baseball.
Earnest, a Kansas City native and former press secretary under President Obama, is done doing daily briefings for the White House press corps and working intense, around-the-clock hours. He’s filled much of the time with family, he says. But a lot of it with baseball, too.
A lifelong Kansas City fan who sipped from a Royals coffee mug during briefings and touted his fandom on Twitter, Earnest said he’s been able to keep up with the club on a nightly basis, rather than rely on updates on his phone or newspaper stories the next day.