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MLB Cardinals Likely To Loosen Restrictions On Joe Maddon's Charity Foundation Shirts

The MLB Cardinals are "likely to loosen" a restriction that kept Cubs fans from wearing manager Joe Maddon's "Try Not to Suck" T-shirt at games at Busch Stadium earlier this year, according to Derrick Goold of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. During the Cubs' first visit to St. Louis, ushers told fans to "remove the shirt or turn it inside out." The T-shirt, which is sold to raise money for Maddon's Respect 90 Foundation, features a "silhouette of signature Maddon's Buddy Holly-like glasses and a verb that the Cardinals have for years not allowed at the ballpark." Goold notes that has "been true whether it appears on a T-shirt about an opposing team," or as one club official described, "even on 'Cancer Sucks' tees." Maddon said, "I find it humorous, actually. I’d love to know the definition of why they’re offensive in any way, shape or form." Maddon "thought about wearing the T-shirt out for batting practice as solidarity or protest but elected not to do so." The Cardinals "have written ballpark policies called 'Ground Rules for Guests' and one of them forbids obscene or indecent clothing." The expectation is that the Cardinals "will change that stance in part because T-shirts such as Maddon's don't use the term offensively" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 4/21). Maddon: "It’s much better if the fans make a big deal out of it. Let someone blow your horn, and the sound travels twice as far" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 4/21). 

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