More spring league follies

[just another ref]

(paraphrased)**

With regard to whether Braves is an appropriate name for the baseball team located in Atlanta, and the possibility of using another name, I submit the following. Let us choose a group which is not easily offended, and furthermore if this group is offended, we don't really care.

Got it.

The Atlanta Lawyers


**Lewis Grizzard

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by just another ref

(paraphrased)**

With regard to whether Braves is an appropriate name for the baseball team located in Atlanta, and the possibility of using another name, I submit the following. Let us choose a group which is not easily offended, and furthermore if this group is offended, we don't really care.

Got it.

The Atlanta Lawyers


**Lewis Grizzard

JAR - one of my favorite authors (g_d rest his soul)

Classics Lewis Grizzard Titles if you're not familiar:

They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat (Written as a result of his many heart surgeries which eventually killed him)

Life Is Like a Dogsled Team...: If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes

Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night

Elvis is Dead and I Don t Feel So Good Myself

Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes

Does a Wild Bear Chip in the Woods? (On Golf)

If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About a Quart Low



He would definitely have fit in this Forum.........

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by just another ref

With regard to whether Braves is an appropriate name for the baseball team located in Atlanta ...

The Braves, who played in Boston and Milwaukee before moving to Atlanta in 1966, trace their nickname to the symbol of a corrupt political machine. James Gaffney, who became president of Boston’s National League franchise in 1911, was a member of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party machine that controlled New York City politics throughout the 19th century. The Tammany name was derived from Tammamend, a Delaware Valley Indian chief. The society adopted an Indian headdress as its emblem and its members became known as Braves. Sportswriter Leonard Koppett described Gaffney’s decision to rename his team, which had been known as the Doves, in a 1993 letter to the New York Times: “Wouldn’t it be neat to call the team the ‘Braves,’ waving this symbol of the Democrats under the aristocratic Bostonians? It wouldn’t bother the fans.” And it didn’t, especially after the Braves swept the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1914 World Series.

[grunewar]

Saw our local rec league was short a ref so I signed up for a rare (f0r me) mixed U10 game tonight.

Midway through the third quarter a gal steps up to the line to shoot two and dad yells, "Remember, just like Rick Barry"..... Me. Not sure how many others in the gym know what's going on, but, I know what's coming.

She gets in position bends her knees for the famous underhand foul shot and tosses it. Ball doesn't get two feet off the floor.....straight out of bounds under the basket. She throws her hands up to her face embarrassed.

Shot two, and she is darn sure not going to let that happen again. She bends her knees and gives the ball a mighty heave....right over the backboard.

I'm sure she'll get better as the season progresses......or maybe not.