USA Today -- The Cleveland Indians have been having quite a season. Yet, despite winning an amazing 19 games in a row, the sports media cannot help themselves, from ruining all the fun by bringing Chief Wahoo, the team’s 70-year-old “racist” logo.
After toppling the Los Angeles Dodgers for best record, the Indians have realized an 19-game winning streak which is only one game away from the 20-game record set by the Oakland A’s in 2002. The Tribe just might have the opportunity to hit that magic 21, too, as they next face the Detroit Tigers.[...]
The Tigers are already mathematically eliminated from division contention, so they have not been having the best season, to put it mildly.
Needless to say, Indians fans and commentators have been on Cloud Nine for the last few months.
However, even as the excitement builds to a fever pitch, leave it to the liberal sports media to find a way to throw cold water on the fun.
Ted Berg of USA Today felt compelled to jump to his keyboard to proclaim the Cleveland Indians’ winning streak essentially null and void because the team still has its cartoon Indian, Chief Wahoo, as a mascot.
In a Sept. 11 editorial, Berg exclaims, “Everything about the red-hot Cleveland Indians is awesome except their very racist logo.”
Despite Cleveland having “the best record in the Majors,” and asking readers, “How fun is this team,” Berg is sour because of Chief Wahoo.
“It’s all extremely dope,” Berg says, trying and failing to sound cool. He continues, “…and watching the Indians right now would be fully and exhaustively dope were it not for the nagging little issue of the extremely racist logo they insist on wearing on their caps on most games: Chief Wahoo.”
Berg recounts that the team has made a few moves to eventually eliminate the long-standing logo in favor of the new block “C” logo, but he clearly feels the team isn’t moving fast enough. Berg even finds it “alarming” that the team has worn Chief Wahoo for most of its televised games and during the pre-season.
Berg concludes, admitting that no one wears Chief Wahoo gear with hatred, but he still feels morally superior to those who like their team’s decades old mascot:
Yes, the Indians have worn Wahoo for a while now, and yes, if you grew up in Cleveland you may have done so while wearing Wahoo gear without a shred of hatred in your heart toward anybody. But clinging stubbornly to its presence on caps and uniforms, as the Indians have, or trying to justify it as anything other than a grim relic of intolerance means taking a stand on the wrong side of history. We move forward.
Blog Author's Comments: And after Chief Wahoo is done away with, racism and intolerance will never be problems ever again? The left attempts to kill everything it touches that it does not like or agree with. What is racist about saying Indians are winners? Ted Berg of USA Today could probably give us many reasons because he is a liberal, and isn't everyone that writes for that paper liberal? A sure sign of a cretin is when you meet someone that fights a fight that isn't their own and the people that potentially could have a reason to fight it, aren't fighting. American Indians, which are not actually "native Americans" by the way, apparently don't care about this. They have their lives to live and other things to think and worry about.
Berg cries and whines too much about something he should not be writing about. Unless one has been directly impacted in their years of life by outrageous forms of racism, one should not receive any sympathy. You'll receive no sympathy here for what happened three or four generations ago, move on. Ted Berg is simply looking to stir the pot of racism, while throwing a damper on a sports event which makes some people feel good, as if we need more leftists doing the stirring.
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