Are you upset that the baseball season is over?> A sampling of reader opinio

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Most callers blamed owners and players. All appeared united to boycott the games next year. Many felt sorry for the loss of pay by stadium attendants and grounds workers. Several said that the root cause was greed by both players and owners.

There were 333 calls.

94 percent said NO.

6 percent said YES.

A sampling of reader opinion:

“I don’t care if they never come back.”

— Dr. Donald Hoople, Castine.

“I’m sorry that the baseball season is over. It’s business for thousands of baseball players, and it’s fun for millions of fans. And we’ve lost some of that fun.”

–Mary Ellen Carr, Dover-Foxcroft.

“I believe baseball players and owners make enough money as it is. They are squabbling like two beggars for the possession of a dime. Both players and owners have a certain amount of responsibility to their patrons and they are letting us down.”

–Faye Newton, Bradford.

“I’m very upset like most of the fans. I just hope that when the baseball season starts up again the fans get together and strike. That might show the baseball players and owners that the fans do have a say in this also. Hopefully the fans will strike next year.”

–Bill Hodgdon, Mount Desert.

“I feel the baseball players should all be paid a certain salary, and then at the end of the season they should be rewarded with bonuses based on their performance during the season.”

–Jean Grogan, Winterport.

“If the owners and the players don’t want to give us an end to a season, then next year let’s not given them a beginning.”

–George Pellissier, Bangor.

“I believe that this was definitely the owner’s fault and that it was set up several years ago in which the commissioner was forced to resign and the players were forced into the position of rejecting the salary cap. It’s very old stuff as we will see soon. The owners have been doing it to the players for years and now they’re doing it to the fans too. I’m very upset and so are my kids.”

–Vaughn Coleman, Portland.

“They make enough money as it is. They don’t need to hold out for any more, when our police and educators are not making nearly as much as what they earn.”

–Pete Brown, Gorham.

“I’m not upset that the baseball season is over because I think they waste too much of our time as it is, and they’re so overpaid it’s ridiculous. The working people in this country should get as much as those people do, and they whine about a ridiculous amount of money.”

–Vicki Churchill, Bangor.

“If they had a chance to vote again, I think they would vote to play. It’s really a sad situation.”

–Galen Shedd, Dixmont.

“It seems like the fans have taken the short end of the stick one more time — a football strike, basketball strike … they don’t give a damn about the fans and we’re the ones who put the money in their pockets. I wished I lived in Boston with a season ticket so I could boycott them. I wouldn’t go to the games.”

–Dalen Williams, Southwest Harbor.

“I think they should play with the minor league players starting next spring.”

–Donald Artuin, Old Town.

“I think when baseball players start to play next year they ought to be playing to an empty stadium.”

–Bob White, Hampden.

“People should boycott major league baseball next summer. Even if they do start, maybe we could devote our time to the local baseball teams which are very good around this area.”

–Charles Cote, Milo.

This is a sample of public opinion. It is not a scientific poll.