- 03:50 AM
- 11/08/09
I don't like seeing people dress as "Indians" for a football game. I don't like seeing people do the "tomahawk chop" and "imitate" Indian people. When I watch the 1991 world series replays it really bugs me to see all the dumb people in Atlanta doing that chop stuff and mocking Indian people (glad the Twins won). Do most people think the toothy-big-nosed-smiling "Chief Wahoo" Cleveland Indians logo is a good depiction of Indians? Probably not. The name of the team is where those things all come from. Its not separate.
I just don't see how it is a good thing to name a team after a race of people's skin color, even if that is where it comes from (which it seems like that is what you are arguing). I wouldn't support going to a game in blackface, why should we accept this type of fandom and usage of a race for a team name.
It won't help people on the reservations to change the name, but it doesn't honor them either to use their race as a stereotype, caricature, or punchline. Maybe I can't convince bdaddy of any of that, and so be it. I just have a real hard time understanding his support of it (or it seems his opposition to any change really rather than supporting it).
I also went to school at the University of North Dakota where this debate or argument takes place on a local basis.
posted by chris2sy at 10:09 PM on September 16
Yeah, 768 is not enough of a sample to draw the conclusion that the majority of Native Americans are OK with the term redskins.
Not even enough for many Reservation's populations. Not around here anyway. Just Red Lake, White Earth, and Leech Lake in Minnesota have around 40,000 enrolled members. That is just three reservations here.
where did they pull their sample from?
posted by chris2sy at 04:27 PM on September 16
Not only the name but the shitheads wearing their chickenfeathers at the games...it all needs to go.
I was a fan when I was a kid but the older I got the less I liked it. And, man, I loved those teams when I was a kid wearing my "Hogs" and Riggo's Rangers" shirts, etc. No more. Maybe if they change the name.
posted by chris2sy at 02:42 PM on September 16
I think the video should be at the Wimbledon site. Probably kind of large files though...
posted by chris2sy at 03:50 PM on July 07
I understand that this is the way of the world, but I wanted the Twins to keep him. I still find it depressing. I really looked forward to watching him pitch every turn through the rotation.
posted by chris2sy at 04:53 PM on January 29
For every Bull Durham, there are several movies like Major League 2 and Major League: Back to the Minors. It is the way of the world. On the Talladega Nights thing, expecting more than a goofy ass NASCAR parody out of it is expecting too much. Like expecting the baseball game at the end of The Naked Gun to have realism instead of its ridiculous goodness.
posted by chris2sy at 04:17 PM on January 25
Seldom does a sequel surpass an original like that...they really went out of their way to be stupid. "We chose it because it was an image we thought would draw attention to an issue we thought deserved some intelligent dialogue." Right. The drawing attention part is right anyway.
posted by chris2sy at 01:42 PM on January 17
More people are killed by lightning or bee stings than sharks in Australia. I had initially read that as: MOST people are killed by lightning or bee stings than sharks in Australia...
posted by chris2sy at 04:00 PM on January 11
Yeah, my only question about it was: what the fuck is wrong with Simon anyway? Can't he get his head out of his ass and play like a normal hockey-skilled-human?
posted by chris2sy at 11:57 AM on December 19
"In other words, had Eddie Gaedel worn a St. Louis Blues uniform rather than one of the St. Louis Browns, his heartwarming story may have instead been a cautionary tale." Nice.
posted by chris2sy at 11:26 AM on December 13
Sounds worth a look for sure. Now we all have it in our queues though...
posted by chris2sy at 02:17 PM on December 03
Yeah, I can certainly live with his stats so far...its the injuries that I worry about. Don't apologize, just keep yourself healthy and on the ice. Glad to see that he was back tonight anyway.
posted by chris2sy at 01:19 AM on November 16
A five year fixed salary vs. a three year plus two option years with a salary structure tied to revenue. That's it? Work something out for fuck's sake. Learn from mistakes made by other leagues too. Both sides drowned the league before they got out of the shallow water.
posted by chris2sy at 04:01 PM on October 18
I went to a Minnesota Swarm game back in March, because my company gave people on our project tickets to the suite for that game. (Won't let us worker-bees go to a Wild game...grr. But I digress...) It was surprisingly entertaining: plenty of scoring, a fight, and a PA announcer who trash-talked a lot. I'd go again, if I could. Its kind of shitty that there are not going to be any Swarm games this year. I wanted to make it to one and only saw their games on TV. On Versus, I think?
posted by chris2sy at 03:48 PM on October 18
That was really interesting. I thought he really put it well about the team name "Indians." I also agree with him on the value of Deloria's Custer Died For Your Sins and that it still holds up. Yeah, I don't recall Locklear either. "The reason I went into baseball as a profession was that when I left school, baseball offered me the best opportunity both for money and achievement. I adopted it because I played baseball better than I could do anything else, because the life and the game appealed to me and because there was so little of racial prejudice in the game. There has been scarcely a trace of sentiment against me on account of birth. I have been treated the same as other men." - Chief Bender They need to add Chamberlain's name to the Baseball Almanac link. Ellsbury's name is already on there.
posted by chris2sy at 05:01 PM on October 12
I don't care one iota if a player on my team gets an individual award Last year the Minnesota Twins had the batting champ, the MVP, and the Cy Young winner. Unfortunately, they did not win a damn thing as a team at the end of the year.
posted by chris2sy at 10:13 AM on October 05
Ah, flaxseed oil, is there anything it can't do?
posted by chris2sy at 06:04 PM on October 04
"It was a home run," said Selby, pointing to a spot on the barrier where the green paint was chipped. "It hit right here where these markings are." Then added: "back and to the left...back and to the left...back and to the left..."
posted by chris2sy at 06:14 PM on October 02
Okay, this is the first time I've seen the Gundy tirade. (I haven't been under a rock or in a cave or anything, just busy). In the posted stuff here, I think that the most effective rebuttal of her column was the comedy piece that igottheblues linked to. It was better than the hissy shit-fit thrown by Gundy. The shit he was saying was ridiculous and having a shit fit just made a lot more people read the original column too. Because its only college, I don't think its going to be made into a Coors light commericial eventually, which is unfortunate.
posted by chris2sy at 01:05 PM on September 25
My only complaint (if you can call it such -- and I don't recall anyone giving me a vote) about the no hitter is the 4 walks. Not only that, but why walk Bill Hall three of those times?
posted by chris2sy at 09:55 AM on June 13
Well, I would have said that the A-Rod play was bush league, except for I remembered the 1991 World Series where the Twins benefitted from both the Knoblauch/Lonnie Smith play and the Hrbek/Gant play. So, who am I to say its bush when I cheered for those incidents as smart plays?
posted by chris2sy at 02:20 PM on June 01
I don't get the coal miner comparison. Its actually pretty inaccurate because they have had to do special compensation to them in certain circumstances of disability and injury: "The Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA) provides monthly payments and medical benefits to coal miners totally disabled from pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) arising from employment in or around the nation's coal mines. This Act also provides monthly benefits to a miner's dependent survivors if pneumoconiosis caused or hastened the miner's death. The Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation (DCMWC), within the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), adjudicates and processes claims filed by coal miners and their survivors under the BLBA." Now, I don't know what compensation runs (as to amount) in these cases and its not a pension but special compensatory action for dead and disabled people that got that way because of their work. In the NFL circumstance (not the coal miner one) are we talking just pensions for everyone or specific problems of severely fucked up people, like Mike Webster, who got that way because of their work? How many NFL players are all fucked up because of their playing and come before that multi-millionaire era? I know that in the article Ditka seems especially pissed about the Webster example and how Webster's case was handled.
posted by chris2sy at 02:51 PM on May 11
If NBC doesn't re-up Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I really hope they develop a Law and Order: Bloody Sock Unit to fill that timeslot. I want MAYANKEE as the lead character, an inquisitive detective with a thirst for knowledge but a passive approach to recovery evidence to solve the case. But he also needs to add some corny shit like: "the game is afoot" at the beginning of the episode for the Caruso-esque line to kick it off.
posted by chris2sy at 11:33 AM on April 26
Not sure why I linked and cut-and-pasted the same article, but there you go. I blame Kip Switzerland.
posted by chris2sy at 12:52 PM on January 19
Hello ron mexico! Your Ron Mexico name, the ultimate disguise, is Michael Vick. Nice, so at least one name on there is not a place-based alias...not much fun if your real name is Ron Mexico though (I think Rcade linked to this guy in the original Ron Mexico thread): UC player caught in name game Craig Muder Staff By CRAIG MUDER Observer-Dispatch UTICA - Ron Mexico has been dragged into the national spotlight. Fortunately for the former Utica College hockey player, none of this is his fault. Unfortunately - because the case involves National Football League star Michael Vick - Mexico himself has become national news. Vick, the Atlanta Falcons' quarterback, is being sued by an alleged former girlfriend who claims he knowingly gave her genital herpes in 2003. The lawsuit, filed in the state court of Gwinnett County, Georgia, and posted on thesmokinggun.com, alleges that Vick has used the name "Ron Mexico" as an alias "for the purposes of herpes testing and/or treatment." Soon after the lawsuit was published, radio stations from across the country began calling the real Ron Mexico in Utica. "They did a `Google' search and Ron Mexico came up playing hockey for Utica College," said Mexico, a senior from Big Rapids, Mich. "Me and my dad are the only Ron Mexicos in the country, I think. "I found out two or three days ago when my buddy from Michigan told me he heard it on the radio. I thought he was just pulling my leg, but I got a call from a Los Angeles radio station yesterday." Mexico has not been served with any legal documents, and has never met Vick. But on the heels of UC's run in the ECAC Playoffs in March, Mexico's brush with Vick has brought even more publicity to the Pioneers' hockey program. "What's been great is on the air they've been introducing him as Utica College hockey player Ron Mexico," said UC coach Gary Heenan. "I had radio stations from Atlanta, L.A. and Detroit calling me to get Ron's number." Mexico, who appeared in 14 games for the Pioneers' this year, is one of 13 seniors who helped turn UC from a brand new program in 2001 to a national power in 2005. And when Mexico graduates this spring, his hockey legacy will long be remembered in Utica. His name, however, is now linked to Michael Vick. "I have no idea how he got it, but I hope this doesn't hurt me," joked Mexico. "You know what my major is? I'm going into hospital administration."
posted by chris2sy at 12:50 PM on January 19
Johan Santana is Giorgio Côte d'Ivoire, which is better than Joe Mauer being Danny Turkey. I guess if I am ever in need of a red door clinic alias, then Kip Switzerland (spofi name)is as good as any...and I like it better than David Lee Alaska.
posted by chris2sy at 11:20 AM on January 19
"This year we had the best chemistry on the team..." Now that line from Vizquel made me laugh.
posted by chris2sy at 09:09 PM on January 11
Dude's not winning any popularity or personality contests, but I think he should be voted in for his peak. I agree, I didn't before but I think I do now (how is that for wishy-washy). Plus I want to see a fight between him and Ty Cobb when duplicating people from their remains is perfected.
posted by chris2sy at 03:27 PM on January 09
"Gwynn and Ripken are baseball dinosaurs who spent their entire major league careers with one team." Bring back the dinosaur...
posted by chris2sy at 01:59 PM on January 09
Wow, Gossage was right there man. I was hoping Blyleven would have moved up more.
posted by chris2sy at 01:58 PM on January 09
Not to be the FPP police, but this story is only incidentally sports-related, isn't it? Can we try to avoid this sort of thing in the future? We have ways of making you sign zee flag!
posted by chris2sy at 09:24 AM on December 19
The local media in Minneapolis are frothing over with talk of Iverson landing here I have been hearing that too, but assumed the price was high and the likelihood of AI being happy in Minnesota was low.
posted by chris2sy at 09:34 AM on December 13
'Tis no man, 'tis a remorseless tennis machine... I can't believe that he only lost 5 matches and it wasn't even the record.
posted by chris2sy at 12:10 PM on November 20
Obviously, the correct choice for a logo for Waukee would have been some sort of beast ripping apart a badger. (although someone may have copyrighted that too...) I guess they mean these: 
posted by chris2sy at 12:35 PM on October 18
Her cheering like that is not really fair to the other fans nearby who will be hit by pieces of her after she explodes from being caught in an endless-spirit-feedback-loop either.
posted by chris2sy at 02:53 PM on October 12
Someone who is as relentless and constant as that really missed out on their true calling as a professional protestor. Nice cell phone video of her cheering too. I can see why they thought she might be chemically enhanced at the game.
posted by chris2sy at 11:21 AM on October 12
Does Kurt Bevacqua still play for the Padres?
posted by chris2sy at 03:23 PM on October 09
That's a bold statement.
posted by chris2sy at 12:10 PM on September 27
Try and take the division. Stupid or not, try and take the division. (of course I say that and think: Doesn't seem likely that they will be able to take the division though considering the fact that Detroit is really 2 games up right now because a tie means Detroit still wins the division.)
posted by chris2sy at 09:35 AM on September 26
Part of the problem I see with Alex Rodriguez is that he is always in the lineup against the Twins. I think the solution to many of the problems, criticisms, and accusations leveled at him is for him to not be in the lineup when the Yankees play the Twins. Yeah, I bet things would be a lot easier for him, he would be more accepted and understood if he was not in the lineup on those Yankees-Twins days. That is really all he has to do to make things better: not play when the Yankees play the Twins.
posted by chris2sy at 11:14 AM on September 21
Well, if its any consolation, Willie (the Guillermo) Hernandez did get the MVP instead of Kent Hrbek in 1984. After going to the Twins-Tigers game on 9/7/2006 and seeing the Tiger's four homer shelling of Baker, I did not think the division was within reach. What a difference a couple of weeks makes. A few years after that, while the Cowboys were still winning Super Bowls with the haul from that trade, things got worse for Minnesota sports fans as the State of Hockey lost their pro hockey team to - of all places - Dallas... You are right about that, taking the North Stars away made me dislike Dallas even more. Thankfully, Minnesota got another NHL franchise with the Wild.
posted by chris2sy at 10:53 AM on September 21
I always thought Jim Abbott was at a real disadvantage in that regard. No glove hand and he had the ball just in the other hand, but I don't know that for sure. From an article discussing reasons for his decline: "Exposed grip. Unlike two-handed pitchers, Abbott cannot hide grip inside his glove during his windup. His grip is exposed to a first base coach or third, base coach. Pitches he might throw to tail away from righthanded hitters--split-finger fastball, knuckle curve, screwball, sinker--require conspicuous grips. Coaches may tip off Abbott's pitches to hitters." I am sure however that I have not heard the name of Roy Lee Jackson in quite some time.
posted by chris2sy at 04:28 PM on August 15
After watching some of the games, my question (and I don't watch a whole lot of softball) is when did they start using the double first base? 
I guess its for safety, to prevent Derrek Lee-type injuries maybe. Was softball hit with a ton of those type of injuries or they just made the change? Like I said, I don't watch it a lot, so maybe they have been using those bases for some time.
posted by chris2sy at 10:12 AM on July 18
The Star Tribune article included this paragraph: At the suggestion of a Dakota spiritual elder who visited the campus, UND changed plans to paint a Sioux logo on an athletic court floor, Kupchella said, and stopped calling its concession-stand hot dogs "Siouxper dogs." That's right, in the middle of this controversy over the use of the name for the team itself they thought it was a smart idea to market the hot dogs at the games as "Siouxper Dogs" and the bottled water as "HsiouxO". These guys are not fucking geniuses. Someone a little smarter could have reached out to the tribes sooner, gotten them on board, squashed this shit at that point, and avoided the shitstorm. Instead things end up where they are today.
posted by chris2sy at 12:42 AM on June 16
Second, I grew up in a southern Minnesota town, yes I'm a proud Golden Gopher alumni! In the 1860's the town had numerous villagers killed, raped, etc. by the neighboring Sioux. It was after the Sioux uprising that the Indians were put on reservations. I know, that sounds horrible. Of course, the alternative would have been to treat them like they always treated their enemies...kill every last one of them. In this world, time and time again, the societies that were not able to advance out of the stone age were defeated. I know its OT, but that is a pretty strange way of putting events like the mass hanging at Mankato, where 38 Sioux were hanged at once. Nothing like conducting nearly 400 trials in 6 weeks right? Many were guilty and many were not. Besides, if you read a book like Over the Earth I Come you get the sense that the Sioux and the white settlers were really the victims of incompetence by the U.S. government. With its attention on the civil war type situations going down, it purchased the land from the Sioux, moved the white folks in, and then did not pay for it (I'm just going from memory here) on time because of being focused on the events of the civil war. The Sioux get starved out and are told to eat the grass by the less friendly of the white traders, like Andrew Myrick. That is how atrocities happen on both sides, shit like that adding up to an explosive situation. Also, you would be mistaken to generalize regarding the Sioux Indians all participating in a war on farmers and settlers. Many saw no honor in that, staying out of it, and others actually saved the lives of white settlers. the Fighting Sioux mascot is a very complementary tribute to the Sioux, it is not something that people laugh at You mean like when the NDSU Bison fans were their Sioux suck shirts, or even the ones (which I haven't seen in awhile) that have a depiction of an Indian sucking a bison's cock? Who would be offended by something like that?
posted by chris2sy at 06:44 PM on June 15
When they originally named the team the Fighting Sioux Actually the team name used to be the University of North Dakota Flickertails which apparently is a ground squirrel but sounded a little bit to weak for them I suppose. Or they felt that there were too many rodent names, with the University of Minnesota being the Golden Gophers and all. So, in about 1930 they went and changed it to University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. Although the name "Flickertails" was discarded faster than used shitpaper, good luck trying to get them to change anything now.
posted by chris2sy at 04:22 PM on June 15
An NCAA executive committee "decided, more or less by fiat, decided that some institutions were going to be subject to this rule, and some institutions, for reasons that are not understandable, were exempted," Stenehjem said. How did I know this shit would be on here today? Look, I went to school there and everything, but all they had to do was bring the tribes on board and they could have gotten around it like Florida State, Central Michigan, etc. They did not do that though and they fucked themselves. I don't even think one tribe signed off on that shit or supported it. (in one of the articles it mentions that an official from Standing Rock backed the use of the nickname, but I haven't heard that before...) The Ralph Engelstad era did them no favors either (other than the sweet hockey arena). The Board of Education in ND based its decisions purely on what a jerkoff millionaire with a crush on Hitler wanted them to do. He wants the nickname, they want the nickname. Then they are surprised when the tribes tell them to go fuck themselves. Its not a real huge surprise that the Board of Higher Education backed the lawsuit unanimously, that kind of shit is much more important to them than any real education issues. As a kind of extra fuck you to everybody that opposed Engelstad, the arena has Indian head logos everywhere on the floor, the walls, etc. So he brought that shit on himself (even though he is now fucking dead when all of this is happening). The courts are jammed with stupid people complaining/suing about something. You mean like the fucking attorney general of ND? Because that is who is going to be filing the lawsuit. I'm sure that this is the most pressing law enforcement issue in ND and that they couldn't get private counsel to handle it, right? Basically it boils down to this: "or won appeals after local tribes came to their defense" No one is really coming to their defense or backing them on it would be my guess. That lack of support was something they should have thought about when they were doing all that bullshit. When you basically tell the tribes "you are being honored whether you think so or not and we won't ever stop" then what do you expect? Personally, I always hated Engelstad but did not necessarily mind the logo. They could have gotten a Sioux artist to design it and that might have helped, rather than a Chippewa one . That would mean actually understanding the difference between the two and I'm not sure they could handle that. I understand that they are saying the process was not on the level, and maybe that is correct, as far as their suit goes. Who would know more about using a flawed process to reach a decision than the ND Board of Higher Education, after all. I have always felt that the most offensive one was Chief Illiniwek because its a fucking mascot. At least UND does not have some shit like that going on. (now I've gone on too long and shouldn't write anything for about a month).
posted by chris2sy at 03:50 PM on June 15
Maybe it's just his awesome performance in Where the Buffulo Roam, but Bill Murray's involvement in this kind of thing makes me think of the Good Doctor. Needs more firearms.
posted by chris2sy at 12:54 PM on May 12
I have never heard of an athlete(s) being a problem in the lockerroom because they are being evangelical. I have heard that the born again Gary Gaetti caused a rift in the Twins clubhouse circa 1988 for that very reason.
posted by chris2sy at 07:34 PM on May 10
The power of Christ compels you!!! (to hit a homerun...)
posted by chris2sy at 02:41 PM on May 10
Pro Thunderball. The most extreme of the fake sports.
posted by chris2sy at 11:54 AM on April 27
"Huppert himself caught 31 straight innings before Rochester Manager Doc Edwards saw fit to pinch-hit for him in the 32nd." Holy shit, 31 straight innings of catching.
posted by chris2sy at 01:49 PM on April 18
I was at that game and we are all sitting there going "what the fuck is going on?" At first I thought that he was injured but everyone (Mauer, Gardenhire, Baker) was laughing so I new it was okay at that point. It was a mystery for me, until today, as to what had happened. You couldn't see them laughing at first, because Baker puts his glove over his face/mouth and then starts talking to Mauer, and it did look like something serious until you could see everyone laughing. At that point where he left and went into the dugout my wife said: "maybe he has to go potty?"
posted by chris2sy at 11:42 PM on April 15
Trust me, Americans dont even understand this....As a paraplegic I do volunteer work for the special olympics and field this mis-conception all the time. The difference between the two can also be learned from watching the movie Murderball.
posted by chris2sy at 06:10 PM on April 11
Ask the Tiger Woods monument that they will be erecting in front of the White House. Fuzzy Zoeller isn't really from abroad is he?
posted by chris2sy at 02:40 PM on April 11
That's retarded. (don't send me your hate mail...kidding you know). What the hell is a disablism? Is that like racism and shit, but for disability? Never heard that one before and I've been around folks with disabilities plenty. Maybe I'm the only one who hasn't heard of that though?
posted by chris2sy at 01:41 PM on April 11
That Put Up Your Dukes link is classic. I especially enjoyed the comparison of Dick Williams to Hitler: Joe Torre had some unkind words after it was all over. "Dick Williams is an idiot," he said. "It was obvious he was the cause of the whole thing. Precipitating a thing like that was inexcusable. It was stupid of them, period, to take four shots at Perez. It was gutless. It stinks. It was Hitler-like action. I think he (Williams) should be suspended for the rest of the year."
posted by chris2sy at 11:09 AM on April 11
I think the Culpepper probable cause hearing, from what I have heard (in the Earl Gray interviews and so forth), went down like this: The defense presented testimony of Culpepper, and at least one other witness, that he was not involved in the conduct alleged in the complaint. The prosecution then, rather than present its own witnesses and testimony (maybe they didn't have any to present) rested on the disclosures in the file. At that point the Judge basically has to decide whether that is enough, or "given the facts disclosed by the record, is it fair and reasonable to require the defendant to stand trial." Where the defendant produces exonerating testimony/evidence, the Judge can still rule in favor of the prosecution if the Judge finds that the prosecution "possesses substantial evidence that will be admissible at trial and that would justify denial of a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal." Lazy prosecution or nothing there? Maybe both (also Earl Gray, despite the teabag name, is a very good defense attorney). Either way, Culpepper is cleared because the Judge found that there was insufficient evidence for him to even have to stand trial for the charge(s). In case anyone was wondering about all of that...probably not.
posted by chris2sy at 01:31 PM on April 05
Brett Favre Starts 271st Straight Game
But, when he was hurt last year should he have cut the streak short, allowed the Jets to move on then, and had surgery on his arm at that time? Did he place the streak above the right thing for the team there? Not sure he did, just throwing it out there. The Jets probably weren't going anywhere anyway.