White House says it wants Atlanta Braves name change… on same day Biden hosts team

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 White House says it wants Atlanta Braves name change… on same day Biden hosts team
By Steven Nelson   
September 26, 2022 4:36pm

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre encouraged the Atlanta Braves to have a “conversation” about picking a new name Monday — hours after President Biden hosted the team to celebrate their 2021 World Series championship.

Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing for Biden’s position on the Braves’ nickname as well as the controversial “tomahawk chop” cheer.

“We believe that it’s important to have this conversation, you know, and Native American and indigenous voices, they should be at the center of this conversation,” Jean-Pierre responded.

“That is something that the president believes, that is something this administration believes, and he has consistently emphasized that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” she added.

“You hear that often from this president. The same is true here. And we should listen to Native American and indigenous people who are the most impacted by this.”

Biden himself had no qualms about saying the team’s name during a celebration in the White House East Room — and noted that its use dates back more than a century, when the Boston Rustlers became the Boston Braves in 1912.



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[mountaineer]

And we should listen to Native American and indigenous people who are the most impacted by this

They never cared that Native American and indigenous people said they weren't offended by the Washington Redskins.

[andy58-in-nh]

When are they going to start treating white Christians, whose forebears founded this nation, with as much "dignity and respect" as the term "Braves" implies?

[EdinVA]

Obviously more important than securing the border or energy..... 

[mountaineer]

People paying $6 for a gallon of milk or for a pound of ground beef are really, really concerned about this issue.

[Polly Ticks]

People paying $6 for a gallon of milk or for a pound of ground beef are really, really concerned about this issue.

And that's not even ballpark prices.

[mountaineer]

And that's not even ballpark prices.

Mr. M and I attended one of the LPGA's major championships this summer. We were disappointed with the concessions overall, but worst of all, they wanted $14 for a cup of beer! The struggle is real! We decided to save our money to buy gasoline, instead.

[Hoodat]

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre encouraged the Atlanta Braves to have a “conversation” about picking a new name

I encourage Democrats to have a conversation about picking a new name for their party - something more appropriate like 'Hardline Fascists'.

[Lando Lincoln]

Warnock and Abrams must be thrilled.

[Hoodat]

Mr. M and I attended one of the LPGA's major championships this summer. We were disappointed with the concessions overall, but worst of all, they wanted $14 for a cup of beer!

And to think that baseball used to be a blue collar game.  Money has completely ruined the sport.  When I was a kid, I remember players like Greg Luzinski buying up whole sections of bleacher seats and handing out tickets to neighborhood kids before the game.  Just the very idea of someone playing a person to play baseball defies imagination.  I would gladly take a two-thirds pay cut from my current salary if I got to play 162 games of baseball each summer.

Guessing you're a Pirates fan @mountaineer , I remember those old Pirate teams with Drabek, Bonds, Bonilla, and Van Slyke.  Back then, players still had a love for the game.  You just don't see that today.  It has turned into Hollywood.

[Hoodat]

Warnock and Abrams must be thrilled.

Abrams was the main person lobbying for the All-Star game to be moved out of Atlanta last year.  She is no fan of Georgia.

[mountaineer]

And to think that baseball used to be a blue collar game.  Money has completely ruined the sport.  When I was a kid, I remember players like Greg Luzinski buying up whole sections of bleacher seats and handing out tickets to neighborhood kids before the game.  Just the very idea of someone playing a person to play baseball defies imagination.  I would gladly take a two-thirds pay cut from my current salary if I got to play 162 games of baseball each summer.

Guessing you're a Pirates fan mountaineer, I remember those old Pirate teams with Drabek, Bonds, Bonilla, and Van Slyke.  Back then, players still had a love for the game.  You just don't see that today.  It has turned into Hollywood.

Yes, I was a Bucs fan in my youth - back when some of the Pirates need to work part-time jobs in the off-season to support their families - and .200 hitters weren't being paid millions of dollars a year. When I lived in St. Louis, I remember getting bleacher seats at Busch Stadium for just a few bucks. We went to a Pirates game last year in Pittsburgh, and seats in the nosebleed section were $30. That the team stinks is just gravy.

[Polly Ticks]

Totally agree.  I'm actually kind of glad to be an out-of-market fan, because I couldn't afford even semi-regular tickets to see the games if I lived in the vicinity.  It's a lot easier to pay the one-time MLB.TV fee and watch from home with as many kids as want to pop in and out.

[catfish1957]

"Braves" is a very complimentary term for those fierce courageous Indians who fought for their homeland.

Stupid woke shit backfires again.

[Lando Lincoln]

When I was a boy growing up near Milwaukee, my Dad would take my brother and me to a couple Braves game a year.  Aaron, Matthews, Spahn, Burdette… My uncle would always join us.  Like most, my Dad was just a working guy providing for his family while Mom kept the home front going. It was a partnership and I do not recall a complaint of the $$$ for the ballgame. A special, wholesome memory.

[Hoodat]

When I was a boy growing up near Milwaukee, my Dad would take my brother and me to a couple Braves game a year.  Aaron, Matthews, Spahn, Burdette… My uncle would always join us.  Like most, my Dad was just a working guy providing for his family while Mom kept the home front going. It was a partnership and I do not recall a complaint of the $$$ for the ballgame. A special, wholesome memory.

Spahn and Sain, and then two days of rain.

[EdinVA]

Moved to Northern Virginia in the spring of 1960, attended Kennedy's inauguration, worked at Nixon's first  and went to several of the Washington Senators games.... geezz... long time ago

[Lando Lincoln]

Spahn and Sain, and then two days of rain.

I recall hearing my Dad say that many times. 

Edit: I think he would say, “Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain”.

[Polly Ticks]

When I was a boy growing up near Milwaukee, my Dad would take my brother and me to a couple Braves game a year.  Aaron, Matthews, Spahn, Burdette… My uncle would always join us.  Like most, my Dad was just a working guy providing for his family while Mom kept the home front going. It was a partnership and I do not recall a complaint of the $$$ for the ballgame. A special, wholesome memory.

Exactly right. That's why I take the time and money to take my baseball-buddy kiddo to Atlanta once a year.  We're not going to a game; we're making memories.

[Polly Ticks]

I recall hearing my Dad say that many times. 

Edit: I think he would say, “Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain”.

Yep, that was the one. 
 

[catfish1957]

Good thing the Astros aren't the Colt 45's anymore. 

Can you imagine the woke turds?

 

[Polly Ticks]

Good thing the Astros aren't the Colt 45's anymore. 

Can you imagine the woke turds?

 

Ha!  Right?  It would be as bad as "The Rittenhouses"!!   

[mountaineer]

"Braves" is a very complimentary term for those fierce courageous Indians who fought for their homeland.

Stupid woke shit backfires again.

Hard to figure how "braves" and "warriors" is seen as something negative.