THE TRUE NORTH: Baseball commissioner Bud Selig commanded that all major league teams play "God Bless America" on their public address systems during the seventh inning stretch of every team's home opener, and every Sunday game, in tribute to the servicemen and women fighting the war in Iraq.
Which is all well and good, except for the 6.67% of the league which plays its home games in Canada, a declared noncombatant, where three in five are glad to stay out of this conflict.
The good people of Toronto were not pleased by the edict. So the Jays ended up playing the version sung by that long-necked woman from Quebec, and lo and behold, the crowd approved.
In Quebec, 83% of the population similarly opposes joining in the coalition. We therefore eagerly await Montreal's home opener on April 22, when, potentially, all 200 people who bother showing up for the game will riot. (What are they gonna do, break the empty seats?)
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