Sit down Carlos Delgado!
I'm starting a nationwide movement built around the premise that Carlos Delgado, newly traded to the Mets, should sit down and shut up. It's not what you think. By sitting and shutting up during the playing of God Bless America at ballgames since the start of the Iraq War, Delgado has been one of the only prominent athletes playing in any of the American pro sports to take a stand against the War. He got away with it in Toronto and Miami, but the wounds are relatively fresh in New York and the Mets front office has "come to an agreement" with Delgado whereby he will stand during the song and to not discuss his political views publicly. The meatheads are going to boo him regardless so I say stay seated. Since when did playing a game for a lot of money mean that you should abandon your political ideals. History always proves them out. And no matter how big you are, if you are an empty hole of commercialization, you still lose in a lot of peoples' minds. I can see if you are a lobbyist for Big Oil, your firm might have a problem with you going to Greenpeace rallies, but you would have no soul to begin with so it wouldn't occur to you to have a social conscience anyway. He's a ballplayer. It's too bad that we had to wait until they were retired to hear most of what Jim Brown, Bill Russell, Curt Flood, and Jackie Robinson had to say about anything controversial. Why is it usually up to players of non-team sports (Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe) to take stands?
