Paul Pierce shouted out from the cramped visitors locker room at Madison Square Garden a pressing pre-game question: "Is Beyonce going to be here tonight?"

About 15 feet separated John Maine and Philip Humber in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Fort Lauderdale Stadium.

Most of his teammates were already gone as Mark Jackson finished dressing on Friday night in the cramped visitors' locker room at Continental Arena.

After the game, in the cramped visitors' clubhouse, it was striking how absolutely devastated the young Marlins were.

Down the corridor in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Shea Stadium, Chicago Cubs Manager Dusty Baker seemed not to have a care in the world.

In the cramped visitors' locker room, the Atlanta Braves players tried to dress quickly, grabbing their clothes from lockers that had tatters of plastic still stapled to the wood.

Kevin Brown stretched his back against the blue carpet in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Dodger Stadium on Friday, lifting his toes to touch a tabletop.

Around every corner in the cramped visitors' locker room there was someone taking responsibility for the debacle.

"It's respect," Martínez said Wednesday morning in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

In the corner of the old and terribly cramped visitors' clubhouse here, Baerga propped himself uncomfortably upon a black trunk.