I maybe missed it but am wondering if anyone else has thought about the MLB playoffs with St Louis playing- and perhaps the world Series to follow. IMO all St Louis needs these days is for a lot of this unrest to take place during the playoffs, with all the world watching. There is plenty of blame on both sides here- but I cannot fathom Cardinal fans wearing their team's logos, taunting a group of demonstrators such as happened outside Busch stadium early this week, with racial slurs. I had been sort of favoring the Cards in the playoffs. The tepid response by their management to this incident has left me suspending my support for the duration.
Both sides were guilty of taunting and using racial slurs. Remember, 99% of the people at the game didn't know the protesters were there and frankly didn't give a damn if they were there or not. They were their for a playoff game and could care less about the MB/DW case at the time. While I wasn't at the game, I know for those 3 hours I didn't give one thought to Ferguson either as much as I guess they tried to make sure I thought about it.
As for what might happen this weekend? Who knows. It won't affect the game. I doubt it makes the televised game. It might make the news, but it will be isolate to outside and any banners snuck in probably won't get air time and will be removed.
As for the management of the Cardinals, I really don't get what Vickers and others really think management should do much less what they will do. The Cardinals have been an ideal corporate citizen. Ferguson isn't a baseball issue. Race? The Cardinals employ tons of minorities. Frankly, I don't think the Cardinals should give ANY response to the Ferguson situation, much less give a tepid response. The only thing I could see them do that would be pretty cool IMO is to build a little league ballpark in the area. I think they (or some players) did so in north city, so it would be cool to do the same in north county.