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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Cleveland Indians

Sports

Sick Twins burn melts outfield snow in Cleveland

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 12:53 PM Apr 1, 2019
9

The Cleveland media spent much of the weekend complaining that the Minnesota Twins didn’t build a domed ballpark, thanks to a stiff wind and 37 degree temperatures for the opening series of the 2019 baseball stadium. Read more →

Sports

End is near for racist baseball mascot

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 29, 2018, 11:57 AM Jan 29, 2018
33

Chief Wahoo has been dying for a long time as the Cleveland Indians have walked a fine line between angering its mascot-embracing fans and slowly transitioning away from its use. In recent years, the team has adopted an uninspiring block ‘C’ as its official logo, but the wahoo still appeared on the team’s uniforms. Read more →

This or That

Baseball is life and death

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2017, 12:43 PM Sep 21, 2017
2

In lieu of flowers for her father, a daughter recommends people buy baseball tickets instead. Read more →

Sports

An all-time catch

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 2, 2017, 6:32 AM Aug 2, 2017
19

If you catch a ball, but you end up out of the park/playing field, is it a homerun?

No. Read more →

Sports

How hard can it be to change a racist logo?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 12, 2017, 3:01 PM Apr 12, 2017
75

Changing a sports team’s logo is a pretty simple task. All it takes is a bucketload of money, as the Minnesota Timberwolves showed last night as part of the team’s plan to wipe away the stench of bad basketball.

Wiping away the stench of racism, however, continues to befuddle the sports world and the people who run the leagues, particularly baseball and football. Read more →

Sports

Baseball fan tries to tweet his way to the pitcher’s mound

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2017, 8:58 AM Jan 25, 2017
4

Jack Lipscomb, 19, has spunk. We like spunk.

Lipscomb, a fan of the Cleveland Indians, wants to throw out a ‘first pitch’ at a home game, a reasonable request considering the usual boring array of people who are entrusted with the task in baseball these days. Read more →

Sports

No, NPR, Cleveland fans are not ‘flighty, fairweather fans’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 27, 2016, 1:02 PM Oct 27, 2016
26

When reporters parachute in to provide sports coverage to an audience which hates sports, you get the kind of story NPR provided today in a blast against the fans of the Cleveland Indians. Read more →

Sports

There is no better sport than baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2016, 11:42 AM Oct 20, 2016
42

When we talk baseball, we pull our past with us — our brothers, our grandmothers, our aunts, our sons and daughters — as we hang on for one more season, one more game, one more chance to dream that salvation will come, if not in this life, then surely the next. Or the one after that. Read more →

Sports

Judge rejects bid to cancel playoff game over racist mascot

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 17, 2016, 4:31 PM Oct 17, 2016
49

Indigenous activist Douglas Cardinal’s attempt to prevent it from happening because of Cleveland’s racist mascot and team name is worthy of attention in a country that has a law against such things. If nothing else, Cleveland’s success in the playoffs is coming alongside attention over its racist mascot. Read more →

Sports

Baseball playoffs put team’s racist name, mascot in spotlight

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 10:20 AM Oct 14, 2016
33

Jerry Howarth cannot bring himself to say “the Cleveland Indians.” He finds the team’s name and mascot insulting. Lots of people do. But lots of people aren’t the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, who open the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians. Jerry Howarth is. Read more →

Sports

‘Caucasians’ T-shirt resets debate over racist sports mascots

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2016, 2:58 PM Apr 7, 2016
17

An odd thing happened today when someone wore a T-shirt of a sports team featuring a racial caricature. It offended some people. Read more →

Sports

‘Fireworks guy’ had one job and booted it

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2015, 12:27 PM Sep 16, 2015
7

No matter what kind of day you’re having, at least you’re not this guy in Cleveland. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

The story behind the picture of sports’ racist present

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2014, 7:41 AM Apr 7, 2014
0

If you’re on social media, there’s a pretty good chance you saw this picture, which was captured by Cleveland attorney Peter Pattakos outside Friday’s Twins-Indians game in Cleveland. Read more →

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