Fukudome doesn't find racist T-shirts in Wrigleyville funny

See, Kosuke, if you came to SF, something like this wouldn't happen.

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wtf

Billy Hayes: Nine more big-league plate appearances than you.

by delorean on Apr 22, 2008 9:08 AM PDT 0 recs

Cubs, Dodgers, & Yankee Fans...

... Are the upper eschelon of ignorance and stupidity.

I had the opportunity to experience the latter on the #4 subway car last week. Guy was butt hurt his team lost to Manny Ramirez and company. I thought John Rocker was bad, but they all took the cake. He even picked a fight with my girlfriend! Fucking low lifes in the Bronx.

As for the former, that’s just dumb. I guess they’ve never seen Asian people before, except in old WWII propaganda films. I applaud Kosuke for the only one with class in that city.

Adopted father of the AnVil / GIANTSPACE™ returns!

by SoFa King Mike on Apr 22, 2008 9:52 AM PDT 0 recs

A whole new kind of dumb

The Cubs organization needs to do more than just point out they have nothing to do with the making of these t-shirts. They should very publicly criticize the guys making them and selling them, and not allow anyone wearing one of the offending shirts into Wrigley.

Eagerly awaiting Crazy Crab Bobblehead Night on 7/18.

by Kitspool on Apr 22, 2008 11:12 AM PDT 0 recs

This generated a lot of comments on

Bleed Cubbie Blue.

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by rfloh on Apr 22, 2008 11:22 AM PDT 0 recs

Cubs pull Fukudome shirt after Sun-Times report.

It was inevitable after having a report in a widely known newspaper. Good to see the club acting pretty quickly. I know there are loads of intelligent people in Chicago, but it’s sad that this shirt was as popular as it was.

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by Natto on Apr 22, 2008 11:25 AM PDT 0 recs

Wow, I’m going to have to ask around discreetly to see if that made the news here in Japan.

I have set Dave Roberts free; if he comes back, it was meant to be.

by hometownboy on Apr 22, 2008 7:51 PM PDT 0 recs

And the answer is, yes, it has made the news in Japan.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3606027/

Rough translation of the headline: “In the shadow of Fukudome’s achievements, an annoying t-shirt with discriminatory wording”

I have set Dave Roberts free; if he comes back, it was meant to be.

by hometownboy on Apr 22, 2008 8:03 PM PDT up 0 recs

Attempting to read the article...

Does “batta (mono/butsu/mon?)” t-shirt refer to baseball related t-shirts?

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by Natto on Apr 24, 2008 6:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

See, Kosuke, if you came to SF, something like this wouldn’t happen.

I wouldn’t be so sure.

This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.

by lunaticfridge on Apr 23, 2008 9:16 AM PDT 0 recs

Why?

San Francisco, along with New York, Boston, LA, and Seattle have had Japanese players on their rosters. Players from other Asian countries have been on major league rosters too, and nothing like that happened anywhere else.

San Franciso may have it’s faults, but I would bet the ranch that you would never see a T-shirt like that on sale outside of Mays Field.

by marklar on Apr 23, 2008 2:18 PM PDT up 0 recs

49ers Offensive Training Tape. Offensive not in the good way:

Asian American leaders told San Francisco 49ers co-owner John York on Tuesday that they want more than an apology for the team’s bawdy training film that stereotyped Chinese Americans as bespectacled and bucktoothed.
...
One character in the video, named Suck Hung, confused his “r”s and “l”s and told off-color jokes.

“Blah blah blah the tape wasn’t for sale nor meant for the public and was aimed at players who were coming from outside the Bay Area,” but the incident still happened here and doesn’t exactly burnish the city’s reputation for tolerance.

This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.

by lunaticfridge on Apr 25, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up 0 recs

everybody knows football players and football people are more ignorant than other athletes (because they’re basically pieces of a machine and critical thinking, with important exceptions, is a negative in football)

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Apr 27, 2008 11:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

Am I the only one

who thinks the word “racist” gets used too much these days?

Yeah the shirts are dumb, in poor taste, and stereotyping (for all I know, KF speaks perfect English) and not something I would ever wear. But “racist” – really? They don’t call for killing Japanese people or excluding them from playing in the MLB, or saying that they are categorically morally inferior or anything like that. They’re fan shirts, for f’s sake.

Shirts making fun of the way some people speak doesn’t really strike me as the crisis of the century …

by SnowLeopard on Apr 23, 2008 10:28 PM PDT 0 recs

would you prefer "bigoted"?

I’m comfortable with bigoted.

Billy Hayes: Nine more big-league plate appearances than you.

by delorean on Apr 23, 2008 11:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

I actually agree with the overuse of “racist” in contemporary discourse (“discourse”), but only because it’s such a loaded term that hackles are raised so high that it short-circuits any chance at a level-headed debate. The alleged racist is on the defensive (“B-b-but my best friend is black!”), while the alleger is rollicking on a high horse.

All that said, Mr. Leopard, unless you’ve lived a majority of your life as a person who is marked and marginalized because of superficial genetic factors, and experienced the typical patronizing, belittling, or predatory behavior elicited by such an appearance, you might have a hard time understanding why the outrage over this incident is justified and warranted.

This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.

by lunaticfridge on Apr 25, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up 0 recs