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Not going to lie, I wouldn't exactly complain if Preach took the relentless cynicism down a notch.
He's apparently upset at not being a finalist for a Gold Glove.
Rawlings, of course, plays no actual role in determining Gold Glove finalists and winners (which are voted on by managers and coaches).
First off, MLB absolutely could shut it down if they actually wanted to. Other leagues and sports have dealt with offensive fan chants. Make the team play without fans. Make the team forfeit games. Those fans will shut up real quick.
But before you even get that far, you'd think the league would have the common sense to just tell the Braves to stop actively promoting it. The team may have stopped giving out foam tomahawks, but they still dim the lights and play the drums.
Incidentally, if want to try to refute anyone claiming this is all about snowflake woke zoomers or whatever, here's a short clip about the chop from 1991:
In Living Color did a skit back in that era with the premise of Native Americans using casino money to buy the franchises with offensive names and renaming them with some more uh, historically accurate names.
But it was spurred by the fact that a lot of tribes were making noise about how fucked these names and iconography are, they just didn't get much traction on the pro level. But off the top of my head they did get the St Johns "Red Men" to change to the "Red Storm"
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Doesn't seem likely to happen anymore, though.
Suppose the upside to the AL winning the all star game and stuff
They stopped that a few years back. Home field advantage is based on regular season record now.
I doubt it's over. If people will storm the capital, they'll do the stupid chant in Houston.
thats how you break your ankles
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Also, please trade him to Toronto, so he and Vald Jr can wreck everyone's shit in the AL next year.
I very much doubt this. His deal is far too team favorable to trade. And as entertaining as it would be, I like continuity of players so I hope he stays there a long time.
I very much hope my theory is dead wrong. I just don't trust the Braves Brass, especially after Fox's love affair with the Orange Shitgibbon doing the goddamned Chop at Truist Field, I just wouldn't put it past the ATL brass to do such a thing when they win tonight.
I dunno without acuna putting the team on his back early in the year they can't come back to where they are. But who knows really, he might come back from the knee injury bad and then they will trade him.
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Even though the braves moved out to the burbs, I don't think they're going to trade someone to own da libz. It's not like management arranged for trump to be there.
Welp
I like a lot of the players on the braves, like Freddie Freeman, Ozzie Albies and Acuna are all good people. Its just again their Trump loving fan base that can get bent.
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Not to mention, they made the most amazing stadium fleece of the century. Moving out of less than 30 year old Ted Turner field and building Truist Stadium, because Mr Home Depot and the Falcons moved into "The Butthole".
Hugely racist? The team that holds Hank Aaron as a patron Saint is hugely racist? Did they release a braves branded clan robe that I missed?
Until they disavow the chop, yes. Hugely racist.
So collectively blame every fan because of a stupid chant. Anyone who roots for the braves is a racist. I've never heard anything so reductive in my life and I lived in the district that gave us MTG.
If only there was someone in charge of the MLB who could punish the braves. If only.