When you can’t beat them on the field, try and fuck with them off of it and hope it screws them up on it: Ontario judge hears arguments basically questioning the legality of the name of the Cleveland Indians in Canada, conveniently in the midst of the ALCS where the Blue Jays are down 0-2 in the best of seven.
I can’t really say that I’m much of a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays. I don’t know why, I just don’t care about them. Probably because I think Jose Bautista is kind of a bitch, and for whatever reason, anyone who ends up getting shipped to Toronto always buys into their swagger, and this unjustified arrogance of being good. I mean, win something other than an ALDS against anyone other than the Texas Rangers, before talking like a contender.
Or maybe it’s just Blue Jays fans in general, who have conveniently been emerging from the woodwork over the last three years, as the Jays have gone from perennial third-place team to a team that manages to get into an expanded playoff field; I’m obviously highly critical towards fans that I deem fair-weathered and bandwagon, because they’re also usually the most obnoxious about their fake instant fandom of a mediocre team.
Either way, I think this story about an Ontario judge conveniently bringing up issue of the Indians name during the ALCS is a bitch move. I mean, the Indians organization and the players themselves probably couldn’t care any less about it, but from an overarching PR perspective, this is pretty tasteless timing.
How come this wasn’t a highly public issue during the regular season, that started in April? The Indians had series in Toronto in July and August, how come there was no judge trying to bar them out back then? How come this issue doesn’t really make the news since 1977, when the Indians would have first started making trips up to Toronto to play the Jays?
The timing of this is pretty blatant and pretty obvious. Distract the Indians, hope it creates enough of a distraction that the Jays might actually be able to come back from the 0-2 hole that their alleged biased umpire conspiracy put them in, and not their sudden team-wide slump and sudden inability to hit home runs. Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch.
Honestly, prior to this story, I had no horse in this race. I couldn’t have cared any less who won the ALCS. I don’t care for the Blue Jays, and I don’t really care for the Indians either. Honestly, if I had to pick, I’d have picked the Blue Jays, because the thought of another Cleveland sports franchise winning a championship in the same year is kind of nauseating.
But I don’t like supporting bitches, and that’s kind of what the Blue Jays and their fans have made themselves into. I hope the Indians complete the sweep, and then fall to whomever emerges from the National League in the World Series, but as long as they take out the Jays, with Chief Wahoo’s offensive face laughing at them the whole way, I can be satisfied.
