The Cleveland Baseball Club

[YA]

yawn

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

meh

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

NASCAR will be changing the way they start races. "Start your machine that converts energy into mechanical force and motion!"

 

[tyler durden]

Ya gotta admit, native peoples got the shaft in the most serious way. If having these teams rename their stupid nicknames something that isn’t a kick to the crotch, that seems like a good thing to me. Besides, it not like MLB or NFL is making them change. Seems like the marketplace is making it look like good business which is the way a free market is supposed to work.

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Ya gotta admit, native peoples got the shaft in the most serious way. If having these teams rename their stupid nicknames something that isn’t a kick to the crotch, that seems like a good thing to me. Besides, it not like MLB or NFL is making them change. Seems like the marketplace is making it look like good business which is the way a free market is supposed to work.

They got got the shaft about as much as any other more primitive culture has gotten the shaft. That’s kind of how the world has worked since the dawn of time, probably starting with Cro-Magnon man falling by the way side. If it hadn’t been the English, French, Spanish, et al it would have been some other advanced Europeans. After all, scientists say Indians originated in Asia and took land in North, Central and South America. Perhaps they should pay reparations to the mastodons they slaughtered...

 

[Pharm Frog]

If you want a Chief Wahoo cap you might want to get it quickly. Snagged one for my son earlier today but the site I used is running out quickly.

 

[Hoosierfrog]

NASCAR will be changing the way they start races. "Start your machine that converts energy into mechanical force and motion!"

I get it.

I’m guessing Indianapolis and Indiana need to be shopping for new root names. I would not be offended by Crackerapolis, Crackerana...

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

Ya gotta admit, native peoples got the shaft in the most serious way. If having these teams rename their stupid nicknames something that isn’t a kick to the crotch, that seems like a good thing to me. Besides, it not like MLB or NFL is making them change. Seems like the marketplace is making it look like good business which is the way a free market is supposed to work.

How long before white liberalism eliminates the plight of the native American Indian altogether from the memory of Americans? 2, 3 generations?

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

NASCAR will be changing the way they start races. "Start your machine that converts energy into mechanical force and motion!"

I see what you did there.

Also, all the laps.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

I see what you did there.

Also, all the laps.

I also see what you did there. 500?

 

[tcudoc]

NASCAR will be changing the way they start races. "Start your machine that converts energy into mechanical force and motion!"

I want to see this post get some more likes.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

I want to see this post get some more likes.

Thank you! I put it in the top 10 of my all-time hand-crafted, old-world jokes.

 

[Froggy Style]

This planet is being conditioned to view straight white men as the root of all evil.

Poor you.

 

[ShreveFrog]

If you want a Chief Wahoo cap you might want to get it quickly. Snagged one for my son earlier today but the site I used is running out quickly.

Snagged a new one myself when this stuff heated up last summer. I sweat through another one on an adult league baseball team about 30 years ago. We all did. We were the Indians. Organized and led by our star player/manager/full blood proud American Indian.

 

[ShreveFrog]

Ya gotta admit, native peoples got the shaft in the most serious way. If having these teams rename their stupid nicknames something that isn’t a kick to the crotch, that seems like a good thing to me.

Yes we did. I'm the great, great grandson of an American Indian chief. And there's nothing stupid about taking the nickname of a revered people. Nothing offensive at all.

My great, great grandfather: http://genealogytrails.com/oka/delaware/MathiasSplitlog.html

 

[QuilterFrawg]

Yes, this specific issue is about a baseball team changing their name (they apparently had already "retired" Chief Wahoo a year ago).

Oh, I thought it was Chief Nokahoma.

 

[CountryFrog]

If just a single person might be saved from being offended then it's worth it.

 

[Virginia Frog]

My vote is for the Cleveland Rocks.

Big mascot like Korg from Thor Ragnarok and it’s ties in with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"The heart of rock 'n' roll is in Cleveland..." Huey Lewis & The News

There was a guy in my dorm (mid '70s) who was from Cleveland and every time any Cleveland team was on TV (we had a TV room then youngsters - only the button-down rich kids had their own) he got there early and staked-out the channel before anyone else could get there (the protocol was we had to watch what was "on" unless everyone was i agreement to change the channel - then it was a popular vote.) He was always trying to sell us that Cleveland was a "great town." We all knew it was a sheethole and he was full of it.

 

[Virginia Frog]

Don't forget about USC. I'm offended that a college would endorse condoms.

A childhood friend of mine sent a couple of his kids to Taylor University in Indiana - a real "Christian" college - everyday chapel, off-campus church attendance on the weekends required, 2nd/3rd-base sex only, no vices and they are the TROJANS.

One of them was a men's soccer star there (later played some pro ball in Europe) and he said that being ironic (and in jest) some team members proudly referred to themselves (privately) as "The Condoms."