Giamatti : America pols should heed words of then-future MLB chief Senate during the last few days strike . Giamatti , frustrated by the posturing and excuses on both sides , wrote that the failure to open up the gates of the ballparks was `` utter foolishness . ... Giamatti said public not interested in baseball 's `` squalid little squabbles '' Bob Greene : Government leaders should be keepers of public trust . Greene : If federal workers shut down government , there 'd be an uproar .
Giamatti : America pols should heed words of then-future MLB chief Senate during the last few days strike . Giamatti said public not interested in baseball 's `` squalid little squabbles '' Bob Greene : Government leaders should be keepers of public trust . Greene : If federal workers shut down government , there 'd be an uproar .