BALTIMORE -- After Yankees assistant GM Jean Afterman heckled President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, she initially felt comfortable with what she had said, then she felt "tremendous remorse."

"Within a nanosecond, 'Oops,'" Afterman said.

As the ceremony ended she reached out to the president, as he shook hands with the Yankees, to tell him she voted for him. She also found one of his aides and asked the aide to tell the president, "I'm a huge supporter."

During the ceremony in the East Room of the White House, President Obama, who had just professed his love for the Chicago White Sox and made some jokes at the Yankees and other teams' expense, went to pick up the World Series trophy for a picture with Joe Girardi. On the dais, Afterman sat with the rest of the Yankees.

"Let him hold it," Afterman said loudly. "He may not get another chance again."

The president retorted, "And you wonder why the other teams don't root for you."

Afterman's concern was not over having a repartee with the president, it was that her comments would be misconstrued as "Republican," she said.

"I'm a huge supporter of the president," Afterman told reporters prior to Tuesday's Yankees-Orioles game. "I have supported him since he announced his presidency. I support virtually everything about his health plan. I just want to put that out there.