Call it pragmatic leadership. Call it Change We Need.

President-elect Barack Obama's team has switched one seat for today's news conference: your correspondent will today be seated in the White Sox section.

Starting with a press conference on Monday, Team Obama divided the assigned seats into a Cubs section on the geographically correct North Side of the room and a White Sox section on the South Side. Finding myself in the Cubs seats, I felt disoriented. Recovering, I posted a quick diatribe against this injustice for a longtime Sox fan.

Responses came from around the globe.

A kindly vice president of the White Sox called, offering his help and recounting how the team once sent then Sen. Obama some new Sox hats to replace his worn hat, only to be told by aides they couldn’t get the beloved hat from Obama’s head if they tried. Was Obama “re-gifting” when he gave a Sox hat recently to Vice President-elect Joe Biden?

A Sox fan from South Africa wrote to commiserate, sharing a copy of the Obama autograph he received, to “a fellow White Sox fan.”

A fellow journalist from McClatchy messaged immediately, an American league fan if not a Sox fan, offering the assistance of the legal department if necessary to pry me from the Cubs dungeon.

Not necessary. My seat was changed. And on the seat, under the name of McClatchy, is the message: “All’s well on the South Side now.”