'This is a World Series between fan bases who feel everyone is out to get them. It’s the perfect matchup for 2021: It’s the Aggrieved Fall Classic.' williamfleitch writes
Photo: Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images It has been a positive year for Major League Baseball. There have been some rough points — the pseudo-controversy involving pitchers allegedly using foreign substances, some Tony La Russa high jinks, many Mets executives acting like morons — but there was a lot for the league to hang its hat on, too.
So why is it such a heavy lift to root for the Astros or Braves? The problem here isn’t really with their players. It’s with the fans. I’m on record as finding this whole would-be scandal hilarious rather than somehow damaging to the integrity of the game. But there is no question that it has turned the Astros into the game’s biggest villains even though almost everyone from the front office in 2019 is gone, and only seven players from that team remain. So naturally, Astros fans have decided that everyone in baseball is out to get them and respond to even the tiniest slight as a disrespect worthy of an infinite flame war.
“I think it’s a misrepresentation of the Cherokee people or Native Americans in general,” Helsley said. “Just depicts them in this kind of caveman-type-people way who aren’t intellectual. They are a lot more than that. It’s not me being offended by the whole mascot thing. It’s not. It’s about the misconception of us, the Native Americans, and it devalues us and how we’re perceived in that way, or used as mascots. The Redskins and stuff like that. That’s the disappointing part.
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