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Sam "Ace" Rothstein
I had a pretty badass UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs hat when I was in high school.
Was it this hat, e-bro?
This was my go to hat in middle school:
I had a pretty badass UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs hat when I was in high school.
How about Homicidal Honkies as a team nickname, Ph? It's got some good alliterative qualities.
And you're absolutely right, we really don't talk about race nearly enough as a society. 23 hours a day is nowhere near sufficient.
Raptors are a great mascot. There should be more dinosaur themed mascots. Probably more mythical creatures like dragons, griffons, etc. Teams keep reusing the same animals. There aren’t many insects out there.
In all seriousness, the only thing that I associate Cleveland with (in a potentially positive way) is Rock & Roll.
From what I've read, Cleveland Spiders is probably the best option if they want to stick with history.
I also don't hate the Forest City, but it doesn't roll off the tongue.
I think they might want to distance themselves from the 20-134 season, which is the last thing that happened to the Cleveland Spiders.
Humans kill snakes because they are snakes. There is a long history of indiscriminate widespread snake persecution in the US. It’s partly because cotton mouths are so variable in color and appearance but mostly because people are scared of snakes. But, The real problem for Indigos was losing >95% of long leaf pine habitat over the last 250 years which basically upended a whole suite of species that were dependent on long leaf ecosystems, e.g., red cockaded woodpeckers, gopher tortoise, gopher frog, indigos.
Was it this hat, e-bro?
This was my go to hat in middle school:
I think they might want to distance themselves from the 20-134 season, which is the last thing that happened to the Cleveland Spiders.
I could get used to Forest City. They were briefly named the Cleveland Naps, in the early part of the 20th century, after Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie-this was concurrent with them being named the Molly Maguires.
Again, we already have Vikings, Pirates, Raiders, Bucs, etc. Do you disagree that they’re murderous white guys? I’m trying to figure out what offends you here. You joined a conversation about race and you were pretty polite about it. But that post set you off.
Since it won't let edit my above post, I have to get off my chest that I once blew the head off a black snake with my pump 12 gauge and I'm having some deep guilt over it right now.
I'd like to help you feel better here. I guess I'd say, it's extremely unlikely what you killed was an indigo, and if it was anywhere outside of south costal Georgia or peninsular Florida it almost certainly was not an indigo. Black racers and black rate snakes are cool snakes too though.
Pirates are not by definition white. Especially, modern pirates.
"Hate was just a legend. War was never known." - Neil Young, historian
True. They don’t have funny hats and a parrot either. But they’re typically portrayed as white and dressed as such.
Is the lack of snake mascots an Adam and Eve thing?