I’m over the lectures. If I want to be criticized I’d leave work early and go home to the wife.

The Nats retain the best record in MLB, hitting the 30 games over .500 mark. However, the Braves have not gone away. Making up 6.5 games is difficult, but not impossible, as the Rays and Cards demonstrated last season. Continued winning is needed. Tonight, Edwin Jackson vs. Chris Rusin, making his second MLB start.

My argument is not with your position on team names. It’s that you wrap your position in insultingly dismissive language backed by absolute ignorance, which you can’t seem to see.

Can’t use Wounded Knee. Sounds too much like a name given to someone in an Indian Tribe centuries ago. Might be offensive.

On that note, I’m starting to think Nationals is offensive, considering there are plenty of players from across the globe on their team, and all throughout baseball. Perhaps they should change their name to the Washington Internationals.

I have to agree with rockthered, complaining about a name out of context is just silly. Nobody that I’ve ever met had said the word “Redskins” without talking about the football team. Complaining about words out of context is silly. Words are just sequences of sounds, after all. It’s the meaning that matters.

As far as history goes, glad you spend your time with your nose in the books. Myself? I spend my free time watching, you know, sports. That thing this site is dedicated to.

Not exactly sure what your point is contributing to the conversation here but thanks for the history lesson, dude.

Talk about the kiss of death. Milone gave up two hits in the first inning and was saved from himself by a sparkling double-play. But there was no saving him after that, as first Hunter, then Wells and Ianetta (off Figueroa) went deep, the latter two were monster shots. CJ has been a good number 2, though the Angels fans might see him as a bit of a disappointment, but he hasn’t been, not really. And yesterday he bent but didn’t break, allowing two solos to the A’s but nothing serious in terms of scoring.

The Angels are clearly much better than the teams the A’s have faced lately, and the A’s need to take the same mindset with them that they did against the Rays when they won that series 2-1: pitch well, grind for runs, and give nothing away defensively. That said, the Angels have quietly elevated both their offense (now # 3 in the AL in OPS).

Unfortunately Milone and Parker are in uncharted territory as to IP, and some of that showed yesterday with Milone missing up in the zone, not a good place to be when you throw with BP velocity. But the A’s have proven surprisingly resilient these past few months. Melvin rested his A bullpen in the loss so if Parker can hold the Angels in the park tonight (and he’ll benefit from the cooler night air) the pen should be able to close the game. But first, the A’s need to score some runs off Greinke.

Simply put, the team didn’t select this name to promote hatred, racism, or to isolate a group of people. Quite the contrary, teams with such names based it on the concept of an Indian warrior, the strength, the passion, the pride… so if we’re going to suggest it’s a stereotype let’s call it what it is: It’s a positive image of what once was a warrior. A Cowboy today is not what a cowboy once was, nor is a bucaneer, pirate, etc. Hell, let’s go as far as to say a saint has a new meaning, as does a patriot.

If you want to abolish one, take them all, and make it an animals only ordeal.

I know that doesn’t sound impressive, but prior to that, they had won _seven_ of their previous fifty.

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He could say he decided to drop the Redskin name because it is offensive to some ( it is), and change the name of the team to something like the Washington Dukes ( after Duke Ellington) with a top hat and cane as a logo.

He would then have the marketing rights to sell both Redskin and Duke merchandise.

Nationwide sales of both types would go through the roof, with different political crowds buying one or the other. Some of more rabid fans would never be seen in public without a Redskin branded article of clothing, and sleep in Redskin jammies.

Craig, I love your snarky comments, but this has to be one of your finest jabs ever. Really had to keep my hand over my mouth at my desk at work so my laughter was muffled around my coworkers.

Sort of America in action isn’t it? Or rather, Native American.

The only thing that has changed in America because of the mascot uproar is simply the mascots themselves. Native America is pushed deeper in the shadows by non-recognition of the mascot plan.

What a tool.

They still call it a collapse.