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| Name: | Chris Allery |
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| Location: | Minnesota |
| ZIP: | 56601 |
| Gender: | male |
| Member since: | October 25, 2004 |
| Last visit: | November 19, 2009 |
chris2sy has posted 1 link and 559 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 95 comments to the Locker Room.
Mike Tice Probed.: An investigation by the NFL for Super Bowl ticket scalping. Wonderful news for the Vikes no doubt, amongst the recent Moss trade and the pending (?) ownership change.
posted by chris2sy to football at 10:53 PM on March 08 - 19 comments
Dodgers in 6 Angels in 7
Lackey and Wolf
AL +16
posted by chris2sy at 12:45 PM on October 14
Phillies in 3
Twins in 4 (even though this is not likely, I can't bring myself to pick the Yankees)
Dodgers in 5
Angels in 4
Joe Mauer
NL+11
posted by chris2sy at 12:41 PM on October 07
Twins
by 4
Cuddyer
posted by chris2sy at 11:49 PM on October 04
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.
posted by chris2sy at 02:10 PM on September 23
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
Unfortunately, I read this after using "shithead" in the Redskins team name thread...who is the shithead now, huh?
posted by chris2sy at 03:42 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
Twins by 3 Casilla comes across
posted by chris2sy at 11:36 AM on September 30
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
Really the win was the result of a lucky speculation. Well, you played it smart and things broke the way you thought they would. That's just playing your hand perfectly is all. I, on the other side of the puck, really got pounded in this league near the end after burning through all my games prematurely. I'm not sure it would have made any difference however. But: mistakes were made!
posted by chris2sy at 01:37 PM on April 09
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
Giants by 3 Patriots score first on offense 1Q at 6:37
posted by chris2sy at 04:16 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
MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, World Series Edition
Phillies in 7
Howard
Under
4:30