Mets tell Delgado: Stand up and pipe down

Baseball slugger Carlos Delgado recently joined the New York Mets and was told in no uncertain terms: "You will stand during the singing of God Bless America."

Apparently Delgado, a former member of the Florida Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays, had made it his business to be in the dugout, sitting down during the seventh inning stretch:

“I wasn't throwing a tantrum out there,” Delgado said of his decision. “I wasn't doing anything stupid to get attention. It actually went on for four months before anyone noticed.”

Yeah, I know -- he once told the Toronto Star that the war in Iraq was "the stupidest war ever." So what? It's free country.

If you can't express yourself about this sort of thing, then what the hell was this war all about anyway?