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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Gross. Just bring up Happ instead.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Unless you have an objection to using StubHub...
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Apparently he can only step up when things are at their most bleak.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, where is Andy?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'd say I was lucky I somehow managed to never encounter this, but it's not like it wasn't effectively replaced with any number of "games" that resulted in someone getting hit.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    The whole 4chan "let's make this a fake thing to pwn the libs, 'whoops', now alt-right people are doing it ironically/seriously" started in 2017. But Milo and co. started it back in 2015 as this intentionally nebulous dog-whistle along the lines of, "white guys chill like this" or whatever the hell goes on in their lizard brains. It's been festering for a while. Sure, but it hasn't really been mainstream for a long time. It wasn't a focus of national media until somewhat recently -- the person sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh comes to mind -- and most recently, the NZ shooter. It's not unreasonable for the average person to not know that it's a white power symbol and to be surprised that someone would do that on live television at a Cubs game. And multiple people in the White House doing it, too. I get what you're saying, and others who somehow mercifully missed this. I guess we're just at the point where more and more people are going to realize what's changed, and ideally knock it off.
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  8. Sammy Sofa
    I've never been on 4chan. 4chan isn't the story. This symbol is a racist symbol used by racists and has been for years and people know it. It's definitely a racist symbol but it became a thing in large part because of 4chan and it really hasn't been a thing for that long. https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll The whole 4chan "let's make this a fake thing to pwn the libs, 'whoops', now alt-right people are doing it ironically/seriously" started in 2017. But Milo and Richard Spencer and co. started it back in 2015 as this intentionally nebulous dog-whistle along the lines of, "white guys chill like this" or whatever the hell goes on in their lizard brains. It's been festering for a while.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I'm online a lot but I have no idea what 4chan is even though I've heard of it. I vaguely recall hearing that this was not used to racists horsefeathers but I don't hang out with anyone who would use it (to the best of my knowledge) so it's not something I immediately thought of when I saw the pic. I've never been on 4chan. 4chan isn't the story. This symbol is a racist symbol used by racists and has been for years and people know it. Yeah, people are trying to drill down and act like this is a story/discussion that hasn't really transcended meme-level status off of platforms like Twitter and 4chan; that's simply not the case. It's been a straight up international news story/debate multiple times over the past 2-3 years.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    That's exactly what I said. Nobody was denying that it's been a very common gesture for different reasons in the past. Nobody didn't know that. People are talking about how suspect it is that a white guy in May of 2019 decided to do that on TV behind a black reporter at the game given how loaded flashing that sign is now, and your response is to post pics of a black fraternity making similar hand gestures and to then act befuddled when people question your motivations. Like, your own best defense, in your own words, is that it was a totally unnecessary and uncalled for non-sequitur response that you were doing just because. Surely you can see why that seems like a bit of a stretch.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    It kinda blows my mind when people say they somehow managed to miss the ongoing discussion/debate about this when it's been going on over every media platform literally for years now...but then again, I have literally never heard of or encountered this "punch somebody because they looked at your balls through the hole" or whatever game in my nearly 40 years of being alive. So everyone has their blind spots, I guess.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Fine. Response, retort, reply. Pick whichever word tickles your taint. How is asking if that was directed at me a weird question? I was simply commenting that I had seen that hand symbol used elsewhere. I think it's obvious that I wasn't trying to say that the dude in the pic was a member of that frat. everybody has seen the symbol used elsewhere. Yeah, exactly. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Rant? And that's a weird question.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Come on, man. I know you know that's not the slam dunk you want it to be. The reality is there's just not a "it was only..." excuse anymore for a white guy to do what the guy at the Cubs game did. You might think it sucks that trolls and racists ruined the beloved dickhole game or whatever it was for white guys, but that's what's happened. This has entered the same realm that excuses, like, "it can actually mean a bundle of sticks," or, "it's really an ancient Hindu symbol," don't fly, too. It's changed for the worse because that's what shitty people were intentionally trying to do to it (due in no small part to knowing that it would lead to people trying to defend it like this), and that's just the way it is. There's no "reclaiming" or "saving" it. People just need to be smarter.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Eh; Heyward's been pretty meh at best again for a while now. Last 4 weeks: .246 .383 .354 .737 (.294 BAbip) Last 2 weeks: .216 .326 .297 .623 (.286 BAbip) He's a career .300 BAbip guy, so....yeah. I suggest you do not look at his splits over the last week.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    This excellent article posted in the politics thread yesterday seems fitting: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/teenage-pricks-pareene It may have been something else before/originally, but it was very loudly and intentionally hijacked for nefarious/trolling purposes a while ago, and somebody would have to be REALLY oblivious to be doing it intentionally like that and to have it have nothing to do with what it's become. I know plenty of people love saying how they're sick and tried of hearing about "gaslighting," but this OK signal mutation is basically the dictionary definition of how it works. There's pretty much zero chance this guy wasn't at least doing this just to get people worked up over what his intentions were.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Why is his haircut.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Beautiful.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    So horsefeathering useless.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Do they not have a version of Caray singing the stretch where he doesn't sound like he's going to beer barf?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Wow. That was a fantastic throw and tag.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I'm getting real tired of hearing the crowd groaning with disappointment over shitty D and lame Marlin hits.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Almora getting hits is one of those rare times where I bizarrely feel angry when a Cub is doing well.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    OK, buzzing is gone; Len says it was the heaters in the dugout.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Yes. I switched to the Marlins feed Man, who the hell calls those games?
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