For heaven's sake, have some of you gone nuts? The players on all teams DO support America's war effort, probably 99 to 1. The owners and officials DOUBLY support it! Why would they not? They are wealthy conservative men who hang out with others of their ilk. There are no borders in THEIR society.

The crowd was polite and respectful. Why wouldn't it be? For the most part their demographic would be quite supportive of the war. These folks LOVE Don Cherry, probably are suspicious of Jean Chretien's motives, and are OVERWHELMINGLY white, with money (you know how expensive those tickets are) . I'm not being critical, just saying that the demographics would say that they support the war, probably in the 75% range.

Disagree with me if you'd like, but that's my take. I don't think Major League Baseball worried about the reaction at all.

Jim