Chief Wahoo and Cardinals to Play in Inaugural Civil Rights Game
Major League Baseball will stage its inaugural "Civil Rights Game" this spring in Memphis, the home of the National Civil Rights Museum and the city where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. 
The defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals will play the Cleveland Indians in an exhibition at AutoZone Park.
I’m pretty sure this means that Chief Wahoo, a fiery red, hook-nosed, wildly grinning caricature that is about as politically correct as a depiction of two black children in overalls with big eyes and big lips eating watermelon will play in a Civil Rights game…
During the broadcast, look for Joe Buck to boast new Fox Sports technology that will show viewers exactly how many rotations per second Dr. King is spinning in his grave.
In other news, yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of Le Trade, the 5-player deal that changed the NHL and sent Patrick Roy from the Montreal Canadiens to the Colorado Avalanche and legend status.
For those who need a recap, tensions between Roy and then Habs manager Mario Tremblay came to a head when the goalie was humiliated on home ice by the Detroit Red Wings and their nine goals in 31 minutes (and by Tremblay for leaving him in that long).
I’m just curious – when your colossal cock-up births one of the greatest goalies in NHL history while simultaneously destroying one franchise and building another, do you bother to look for a silver lining or do you slink away to Minnesota where people are too nice to laugh at you?
I assume you know what I’m going to say next but I’m saying it anyway!
Check out my update at SportsbyBrooks today, which features the above goodness, as well as the following nuggets:
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haha harsh work on Tremblay, damn!
I really like the idea and the reason behind playing this civil war game.
Says the woman who (from what I gather) went to a school whose mascot is the Fighting Irish.
Although I have to wonder why MLB is playing a civil rights game, when black participation is at an all time low. I’d say its akin to the NHL playing a womans sufferage game in Gloria Steinem’s neighborhood.
And the Cards and the Indians? The got it half right. Larry Doby played for the Indians and was the 1st black player in the AL. If they had any sense they would of at least have them play the Dodgers.
Well since she IS an Indian, I’d say she has a right to complain regardless of where she went to school.
I read a former post where she got into with some woman while wearing an Indians hat so I guess its not that much of a bother.
I like when people who don’t know her tell people that do how she feels about things.
Yeah, Irish people. Known for drinking, fighting and cutting soap. Just kidding.
But why would a Duke grad not want to hear Vitale? He is the school’s biggest cheerleader.
you must not have read the actual post, tree. there’s a reason why she wears the hat. her fight with the woman had nothing to do with her personal feelings on that mascot.
It’s getting too serious around here
Boateng had his red card overturned today for being the innocent victim about 10 minutes after he tried to rip Dickov’s dick off.
I can just see some of the Bardford City fans I know forking over £1.50 for 36 blank pages.
That’s meant to be Bradford, you’d think with the amount of time I’d spent in that shite hole I’d be able to spell it by now.
Well, Roy was going to be remembered as a great goalie with or without that trade — two cups already, one of which he basically won on his own, the run in ’93 of 10 consecutive overtime wins … two Conn Smythes … etc., etc.
But no doubt the move was good for his career and devastating for the Habs.