The Pecan Park Eagle

In this photo of Cleveland Indians Manager Terry Francona, can you spot the two things it contains that are potentially bad for baseball and those who play the game?

Tom Hunter called our attention this morning to a nice article in Chron.com from yesterday by Craig Hlavaty entitled, “When the Colt .45s became the Astros and the origins of other Houston sports team names”. It’s worth a quick look, so here’s the link:

http://www.chron.com/sports/article/When-the-Colt-45s-became-the-Astros-and-the-10647526.php

The article reminded me of the fun my late father and I used to have playing the “PC Game” with current big league club names. Always working together, and this probably happened about once every five years over the last twenty years of his life, we would strive to come up with new reasons why each MLB team probably has a mascot name that is offensive to someone out here and to then state our suggestions for more acceptable alternative mascot identities. The fun thing was – I can’t remember a single other time I came up with the same list of new alernatives. And, well, guess what happened when I did the exercise on my own this morning? That part of the result panned almost totally true, one more time. Other than the always repeating attraction I seem to have for resurrecting the “Phoenix Firebirds”, I really don’t remember coming up with any of these other suggested changes previously – with or without Dad’s help. They all seem driven by more current events – and Dad died back in 1994.

Maybe you will have some suggestions of your own to offer and record in the comment section below. Just ask yourself: Who might be offended by any current MLB team nickname now in use? – And what is a more PC friendly answer as an alternative in however many cases you take on.

Here are our Pecan Park Eagle newest (as of this morning) suggestions:

New Politically Correct Suggested Nicknames for Each of  the 30 MLB Teams

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 Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas