Baseball's New Mecca?

PHOENIX -  At least 100,000 Latino baseball fans peacefully marched through the city streets today, apparently demanding a better explanation for the Alex Cintron trade. 

Cintron, the wildly popular Puerto Rican utility player,

who resembles a movie star both on and off the field, was recently swapped for mopup man of puzzling ethnicity, Jeff Bajenaru. 

"Si se puede! Si se puede!", responded distraught fan, Consuelo Marquez, to a reporter's query whether the massive display of Cintronmania would make any difference. Her chant was quickly picked up, and drowned out, by nearby sympaticos.

Phil Scott, an aide to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, noted it took three hours for the entire throng to file past Chase Ho Park, home of the DiamondHacks, who engineered the controversial transaction. 

Scott added: "I thought this sort of thing only happened in New York. Anyway, it sure was a bad P.R. move by the DiamondHacks."