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2022-09-27 -Great Cultural Revolution

White House says it wants Atlanta Braves name change… on same day Biden hosts team

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Posted by Beavis 2022-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Biden will aim for the KC Chiefs next! Stop the woke madness!

Posted by borgboy 2022-09-27 00:47|| 2022-09-27 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Atlanta Savages? Could work for the team and city.

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-27 01:13|| 2022-09-27 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Atlanta ~~Braves~~ Submissives.

It really isn't about Native Americans.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-27 03:20|| 2022-09-27 03:20|| Front Page Top

#4 People actually listen to that senile wanker of a president?

If they got to Redskins' owner Snider, said to be a real a-hole, then they can get to anyone.

I've also heard 90% of Indians polled did not find the name Redskins offensive.

In Cleveland, there were usually a handful of protesters at every opening day to protest the name. A handful. You had a feeling once the mascot, Chief Wahoo, was excommunicated, the name was next.

And get this: it's been said that the brother of the Indians owner has political aspirations in Ohio; ergo, name change.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-27 04:13|| 2022-09-27 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 DooDahMan,

FWIW, the version I've heard is that the league made it clear a few years before that the name change was going to happen - Cleveland is one of the smallest MLB markets, and as such relies on the League to schedule good games and bennies like the All-Star Game...which the league used like a hammer to get the team to commit to a renaming.

I do know the team fought it literally to the 13th hour, because the change to Guardians was, shall we say, less than smooth and almost at the last minute. The league was fully prepared to sanction the team and make an example out of them...unlike Atlanta, which makes enough money to be able to tell the league to do rude things to themselves.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-27 06:42|| 2022-09-27 06:42|| Front Page Top

#6

$%^& Biden and the LSD's.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-27 07:00|| 2022-09-27 07:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The name Oklahoma is based on Native American (Choctaw) words "okla humma" which translates as "red people."

Let's go Brandon!

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-27 08:16|| 2022-09-27 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The Cleveland Indians baseball team dropped their name last year and became the Guardians.

MLB also incorporated a bunch of Soft Ball rules; sure there is no overarching connection.

Biden even worked in a joke about his own narrow victory in Georgia in the 2020 election.

"People counted you out. Heck, I know something about being counted out. And I know in Georgia, you show up when it counts," he said.

har har har har! Must be one of those new rules, "If we are behind by 3 going into the top of the 10th, we get to add 5 runs and you don't get to bat." I've got jokes too: 81 million.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-27 10:39|| 2022-09-27 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't care what MLB does anymore.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-27 11:25|| 2022-09-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 All the pro sportsball leagues are totally committed to the woke crap. If you buy their product, you are paying into gender change surgery for kids, CRT in schools and so on.

There are other ways to occupy yourself in ylur leisure time.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-27 11:53|| 2022-09-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#11 I remember sandlot football, baseball, basketball hoops in driveways, kickball in the streets. Kid stuff I suppose but active instead of passively watching TV. These days I just take walks.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-27 12:37|| 2022-09-27 12:37|| Front Page Top

#12 @#5
Thanks, Mike.

Yeah, I do seem to remember now that for dropping Chief Wahoo, MLB awarded Cleveland the All-star Game, but I surely did not hear that they were threatened with sanctions if they did not "comply".

But what pains me about baseball nowadays are all of the rule changes. TV money, surely, but I dislike baseball more because of the rule changes then I do the PC team name changes.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-27 12:44|| 2022-09-27 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 ^That runner placed on 2nd in extra innings is blasphemy. I get it in Little League, other teams are scheduled to play but to do this in the bigs

Posted by Beavis 2022-09-27 12:48|| 2022-09-27 12:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Is Brave offensive? I could see the case for Redskins but Brave? I don't think that was every used as a sneer. Just cultural appropriation I guess.

The league should have had all the teams change their names during the Covid season when nobody was paying attention.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-09-27 13:21|| 2022-09-27 13:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Undercover Brother

Posted by ruprecht 2022-09-27 13:24|| 2022-09-27 13:24|| Front Page Top

#16 NFL Pro Bowl now to be flag football.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-27 13:25|| 2022-09-27 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Maybe that should be "faig football..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-27 13:26|| 2022-09-27 13:26|| Front Page Top

#18 How about the "Buckhead Braves"?

Posted by Matt 2022-09-27 15:14|| 2022-09-27 15:14|| Front Page Top

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