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Baseball?
- Thread starter Rascally Badger
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Get ready for the Cleveland Baseball Team
www.nytimes.com
Cleveland’s Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name (Published 2020)
The decision comes amid a wider push for sports teams to stop using Native American names and imagery as team names and mascots.
Spiders would be good
Spiders evoke a primal fear in the way those don’t, kinda like snakes do. And unlike bears or tigers, most people have to actually confront and see spooders on a regular basis instead of them merely existing in the abstract. So it’s something else imo. But you can make spiders anthropomorphized and cute to be a mascot if you wanted to and were afraid of losing branding/merchandising opportunities. I think it would be an awesome idea.
here's some good news:
of course, the negro leagues never needed to be legitimized, but this will hopefully allow for some better archival and research into negro league stats. Hopefully this leads to some good for the negro leagues museum as well. Worth a visit to KC (it's also right by the jazz museum, a two for one for your post pandemic sojourns into black american culture)
of course, the negro leagues never needed to be legitimized, but this will hopefully allow for some better archival and research into negro league stats. Hopefully this leads to some good for the negro leagues museum as well. Worth a visit to KC (it's also right by the jazz museum, a two for one for your post pandemic sojourns into black american culture)
Lindor trade!
big news of the week obviously
Not much to say other than it's gotta be frustrating to be a Cleveland fan, but I guess some pros and cons about the move
Pro: one of the best personalities in the game is now in a huge media market. If MLB/Mets/whomever else don't make the effort to make Lindor more of a household name, they never will
Con: just the general trend of central teams is a bit scary for league wages. Cleveland always sheds money it seems, but it's going throuhgout everything. The NL central looks like 5 teams that have given up.
big news of the week obviously
Not much to say other than it's gotta be frustrating to be a Cleveland fan, but I guess some pros and cons about the move
Pro: one of the best personalities in the game is now in a huge media market. If MLB/Mets/whomever else don't make the effort to make Lindor more of a household name, they never will
Con: just the general trend of central teams is a bit scary for league wages. Cleveland always sheds money it seems, but it's going throuhgout everything. The NL central looks like 5 teams that have given up.
and now brantley too, what a lineup:
Being an A's fan is suffering
Someday the dam will break on the steroids era, but we'll probably have to wait for a lot of crochety sports writers to die first.
The problem is that after ten years the only chance steroid users will have is the veteran committees, which will be even worse on the issue.
Lmao. Half of the Baseball HoF is filled with Jim Crow racists from a time when America was segregated. But we’re gonna moralize about PEDs that everyone across all sports at the time was taking. Halls of Fame are scams.
karzac
(he/him)
You misunderstand me. I'm not moralizing about PEDs. I'm moralizing about Curt Schilling being a virulently racist, COVID-denying, insurrection-cheering, Qanon scumbag. I don't care at all about Bonds and Clemens' PED use - although if one does want to cite the character clause against either of them, both have a history of abusing women.
Absolutely agreed that reconciling the Hall of Fame as museum and the Hall of Fame as an awards show are impossible tasks. I'm much more a fan of the idea of just having museum that talks about all of baseball history, and removing the popularity contest.
Absolutely agreed that reconciling the Hall of Fame as museum and the Hall of Fame as an awards show are impossible tasks. I'm much more a fan of the idea of just having museum that talks about all of baseball history, and removing the popularity contest.
Gotcha. Seems like we are pretty much in complete agreeance then, my bad for the misinterpretation. I'd like to see Bonds get in, just to stick it to stuffy old racist septuagenarians, and his pre-roids career is more than HoF-worthy on its own, but ya. I'd trade him for Curt any day, fuck that asshole.
The thing I don't get about sports is this desire to make every athlete into a role model for little kids, despite the fact that modeling your life off of a professional athlete - even the righteous eagle scout ones - is probably the worst advice you could give little kids growing up if you want them to be well adjusted members of society. "Winning" at the cost of literally everything isn't great advice. And the vast majority of athletes don't get to be where they are without having massive egos and being completely sociopathic. To say nothing about the inherent nature of youth sports that grinds up little kids and spits them out, all in order to find glory and tons of money for a select few. I think sports writers are just so in love with both romanticizing their sports, and the idea of perfect idols like Jackie Robinson that they can't help themselves from perpetuating this nonsense.
The thing I don't get about sports is this desire to make every athlete into a role model for little kids, despite the fact that modeling your life off of a professional athlete - even the righteous eagle scout ones - is probably the worst advice you could give little kids growing up if you want them to be well adjusted members of society. "Winning" at the cost of literally everything isn't great advice. And the vast majority of athletes don't get to be where they are without having massive egos and being completely sociopathic. To say nothing about the inherent nature of youth sports that grinds up little kids and spits them out, all in order to find glory and tons of money for a select few. I think sports writers are just so in love with both romanticizing their sports, and the idea of perfect idols like Jackie Robinson that they can't help themselves from perpetuating this nonsense.