On the plus side, Sotomayor has the good sense not to have been photographed wearing blue jeans

Somehow I think that's something we should all be thankful for.

I suggest though that as regards fan feelings on the matter, you dig a little deeper into the previous baseball strike, which played into the fan feelings regards the 95 issue as much as anything else. Baseball is a very history laden game, and that history surrounding the first strike played a lot louder than many will want to admit, I think.

She didn't save baseball per se'... she saved the player's union. The effect of that, I wrote will eventually kill baseball offf outright.

Please don't construe this to mean that I sympathize with the players or the player's union necessarily, but the union, the owners, AND the league's administration all did their part to give fans a bad taste in their mouths.

(Also, I can’t believe that George Will, of all people, didn’t mention it.)

Perhaps that's because he didn't find the case of the multi-millionare players and their union, nor the 'compassion' on those poor multi-millionaire players, to be particularly compelling.

I wrote at the time (I was holding court on the old GT network at the time) that the move was specifically designed to buttress the Union's infleunce on the game, and that anything that did that in the long run would be bad for baseball. She didn't save baseball per se'... she saved the player's union. The effect of that, I wrote will eventually kill baseball offf outright.

I have seen nothing between then and now to change my mind on the point. Interestingly, the UAW has given us a parallel case, since then.