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Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Petroskey is a savvy business manager (of the Baseball Hall of Fame). Maybe he (unlike lets say the upper management of Lipton Tea) looks at the big picture and the demographic of his prospective clients (ie., those who would come and spend their $$$ at the Baseball Hall of Fame). Maybe he weighed the consequences of offending Sarandon/Robbins (who probably had to have a 'consultant' help them with the icky, bourgeous baseball scenes in Bull Durham) or the average American baseball fan (who probably had a relative, friend or at least an acquantance) who was serving in Iraq. Yeah that's a hard decision to make.

Some things just shock to the core. Sure, baseball, apple pie and the US Flag have been pictured together for all my lifetime, and I'm sure, probably a long time before that. But now the US Flag has become the banner of oppression to some people. If life here in the US is so onerous, depart for more enlightened places, I like it here just fine.

We have engaged, to a greater or lesser degree, in practically every one of these social experiments called up by the more extreme proponents of revolution, and in practically every case, have abandoned them as unworkable. Absolutely counter to human nature, and with nasty if unintended side results. Or worse, intended outcomes that were nasty to begin with, because the authors KNEW they would be nasty. Tim Robbins and Sara Sarandon have been recipients of an extraordinarily large share of the pie, yet they choose not to reflect on their good fortune, only on their grievance with those who may strive to do better. For they do not believe that the Iraqi citizens are deserving of opportunity, but are worthy only of living in a downtrodden existence befitting the Third World.