31.   Battling through a night when most of the Sonics did not have their A game, fortunately one player did.

32.   Baseball players have already done their bit in re-establishing a sober, fitting relationship between sports and patriotism.

33.   Before you knew it, Notre Dame players were doing the same.

34.   Big players did.

35.   Between innings, Cubs second baseman Mickey Morandini congratulated McGwire, and after the game several Cubs players did the same.

36.   Both players did.

37.   A few players did.

38.   A coach is pleading with his players to do their jobs?

39.   A few moments to catch his breath, then a schedule that makes him wonder how baseball players do it.

40.   A glance back at NHL labor history tells us that hockey players have made the same trip, in a much shorter time, that baseball players once did.