Yelling about Chief Wahoo mostly serves to make those who detest Wahoo feel good, and those who love Wahoo feel justified.
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Read: Cleveland Indians Will Abandon Chief Wahoo Logo Next Year Watch: Chief Wahoo Is Out.
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Then-team president Mark Shapiro said in 2013 that the Wahoo logo was "going nowhere" even as he was helping to gently nudge the team away from Wahoo.
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However, one of the hats the Indians wear at home has the Chief Wahoo logo on its front, and Cleveland's jerseys still have the Wahoo logo on one sleeve.
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Chief Wahoo logo viewed by some as racist The Chief Wahoo image, a red-faced, smiling Native American man, has been controversial, drawing criticism as a racially insensitive depiction of Native Americans.
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Chief Wahoo is a disgrace, but not a unique one.
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Francisco Lindor, Jose Ramirez, and Corey Kluber wear Chief Wahoo.
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Ain't nothing like pounding beer out of baby bottles. Wahoo.
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Which had originally been submitted for ratification in 1789. Wahoo.
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You permit this because Chief Wahoo is related to you. 2.
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What does Chief Wahoo eat, how do sounds escape from him?
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"That Wahoo I wear on my hat — he smiles," Lindor said.
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The Cleveland Indians are represented by a cartoonish "Chief Wahoo" logo.
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This is to say, we do not talk about Chief Wahoo often.
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In fact, Chief Wahoo exists because we don't talk about him. 10.
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According to Wahoo, he heard nothing after the two left the studio.
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Of course, plenty of fans, Wahoo purists and random commenters who wouldn't know Chief Wahoo from Chief Noc-a-homa are already decrying the noxious PC culture that led to this, the destruction of a beloved American sports icon.
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Like all bad uncles, Chief Wahoo has a big mouth and tiny ears.
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Lobster, wahoo and grouper are among the many fresh seafood delights Tobago offers.
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The Chief Wahoo curse isn't just about wishing misfortune on a sports team.
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The Chief Wahoo logo in particular stands out because it is a caricature.
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Several flaunted team jackets, jerseys and caps emblazoned with the Chief Wahoo logo.
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Read: Good Riddance to Chief Wahoo Read: An Indian 'Chief' Mascot Was Dropped.
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Now the Chief Wahoo news has thrust the Redskins back into the spotlight.
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Truth be told, the coming semi-death of Chief Wahoo isn't a victory.
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Yet Chief Wahoo, the Cleveland Indians' criticized mascot, still adorns that team's caps.
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On a 270-222 scale of toxic American ideas, Wahoo is what, a 3?
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Counter-argument: If you don't like Chief Wahoo, why don't you change the channel?
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The logo, which later became known as Chief Wahoo, was tweaked over the years.
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Strangely enough, the production featured on this version isn't on the original says Wahoo.
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Franky Wahoo, who has worked with MGK, only Durant was supposed to show up.
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Chief Wahoo isn't merely a symbol of pride in a major league sports team.
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The smile, the red skin, the feather, the grin — Chief Wahoo has to go.
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The daily catch rotates, but often includes Aruban wahoo and tuna and Venezuelan shrimp.
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Cerv later coached baseball and basketball at John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo, Neb.
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The news inspired a whirlpool of reactions, mainly that of the "yay!" and "wahoo!" variety.
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We only talk about Chief Wahoo when Cleveland's baseball team does something worth talking about.
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Goldbach said he didn't agree with the change because the Chief Wahoo logo was distinctive.
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Silver lining for Cleveland -- the Chief Wahoo is officially retired with the Indians' season ending.
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The character is named Chief Wahoo, and the team, of course, is the Cleveland Indians.
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You can see Chief Wahoo, he's right there on the hat, and also you're a rational, modern person, and therefore you can see how it—"He" feels wrong where Wahoo is concerned, because it ascribes humanity to a racist doodle—is just so very racist.
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Robert Roche, an Apache, leads a protest against the Indians' Chief Wahoo mascot in April 2014.
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The Indians have said they will phase out use of the Chief Wahoo logo this season.
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Those protests were often met by jeers from Indians fans who cherish the Chief Wahoo logo.
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King mackerel, which is high in mercury, was sold as "barracuda" and "wahoo" in South Africa.
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The Wahoo Fitness Kickr Smart Bike Trainer is designed to bring the outdoor riding experience indoors.
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Then Cleveland got hot this fall and have worn the Wahoo uniforms in every single postseason game.
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And the visage of Chief Wahoo, the Indians' controversial mascot, still smiles from Cleveland jerseys and caps.
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Cleveland's baseball team has been quietly razoring Wahoo off their hats, media kits, and ballpark signage for years.
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Chief Wahoo attended every game of 213's historic winning streak, always in the front row, always smiling.
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Goldbach said he never named his drawing Chief Wahoo and he doesn't know where the name came from.
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The Wahoo Police Department in Nebraska shared footage of the flooding and urged residents to avoid certain areas.
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For a cheaper workout workaround, try the Wahoo Kickr Snap ($600), a stationary mount for an existing bike.
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Some have altered their image, such as the Cleveland Indians, who retired their "Chief Wahoo" mascot in 2018.
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Beefing over Wahoo is worrying about a broken taillight when your car is actually just an old cardboard box.
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Mr. Dolan, the Indians owner, said Wahoo paraphernalia will still be available in Northeast Ohio, exclusively, after next year.
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Hell, why will your team still be selling Chief Wahoo T-shirts and assorted garb at stadium souvenir shops?
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For a delicious wahoo fish dinner and a fun bar scene in Kralendijk, try It Rains Fishes Bar & Restaurant.
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And sure enough, many of the fans in attendance wore the Chief Wahoo logo on their hats and shirts.
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We even went to Wahoo Winterfest and Fuji Photo Day to get autographs from and pictures with our favorite stars.
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He said the goal was to educate fans, many of whom cherish the Indians' name and the Chief Wahoo logo.
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They also appreciate that the trainer works well with the top apps, such as Zwift, Wahoo, Strava, Rouvy, and Sufferfest.
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Beginning this year, the Cleveland Indians' uniforms no longer include the logo of Chief Wahoo: a grinning, red-faced caricature.
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Early this year, the Cleveland Indians announced that they would remove their controversial mascot Chief Wahoo from uniforms in 2019.
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The change came toward the end of a season in which the Cleveland Indians stopped using their Chief Wahoo logo.
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On Tuesday, Lavigne tweeted a shadowy photo of herself sitting at the piano: Beginning production this week for the album. Wahoo.
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For Wahoo, the threat of the full-length song being leaked felt inevitable, even worse doing so without properly crediting him.
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"We were like 'well we sit on it we do nothing, they leak it I don't get production credit,'" Wahoo says.
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It's basically an all profit proposition, and it's also one hundred percent not racist, unlike Chief Wahoo, which is EXTREMELY RACIST.
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After testing many bike computers, we think that the intuitive and reliable Wahoo Elemnt Bolt is the best of the bunch.
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Bill Veeck, who owned the Indians when the team last won the World Series, in 1948, first promoted the Wahoo logo.
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He wore the Chief Wahoo logo from 1948 on his cap and jacket, which was understandable because that was his team.
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"Chief Wahoo is the Cleveland Indians," said Karen Hale, a local Indians fan who was outside the stadium before Tuesday's game.
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Major League Baseball announced that the Cleveland Indians franchise will remove its controversial Chief Wahoo logo from its uniforms next year.
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He is a caricature and caricatures do not need to open their mouths; but Chief Wahoo is speaking and subsisting on something.
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Roche, an Apache, has been a prominent face in the movement to scrap the cartoon Chief Wahoo mascot that detractors consider racist.
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Major League Baseball says the Cleveland Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms starting in the 2019 season.
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the Cleveland Indians will remove the controversial Chief Wahoo logo from their uniforms beginning in 2019.
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On the island's west end, Woody's also relies on local fish, including wahoo, bonito and grouper, caught by owner Annaliese Tucker's husband.
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Imagine, two of the greatest Nintendo 64 games, mashed up into one epic late '90s adventure featuring a lot of wahoo-ing.
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Wahoo Fitness Kickr Snap Power Bike Trainer ($500): This is a good mid-range smart trainer made of high-strength carbon steel.
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The competitors are fishing for everything from white marlin to blue marlin along with tuna, wahoo, dolphin (usually mahi-mahi) and shark.
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His name is, well, Chief Wahoo, a grinning, red-skinned Sambo-esque caricature that has been with the team since the 1940s.
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The Cleveland Indians will no longer use the Chief Wahoo logo on team uniforms starting in 2019, Major League Baseball announced Monday.
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Manfred and team owner Paul Dolan had spoken in recent years about transitioning away from using Chief Wahoo, according to multiple reports.
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Two months later, my husband is now exercising more than I do — almost every day, thanks to the Wahoo Kickr and to Zwift.
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For a lot of Cleveland fans, Wahoo stands for their city and their shared hopes, not for a demeaning caricature of Native Americans.
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Ditching Wahoo and the Indians nickname would at least be a start toward the team claiming their rightful place in baseball's collective imagination.
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Attorneys for MLB and Rogers argued in court that a ban on "Indians" and Chief Wahoo, at the last moment, was not workable.
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The old stadium was demolished in 1996, and Chief Wahoo — the actual 28-foot neon logo looming over Gate D — came down too.
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Chief Wahoo — the version from the stadium — wound up at the Western Reserve Historical Society, a center of Cleveland memorabilia and regional history.
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Last year, the Cleveland Indians announced they are no longer featuring their Chief Wahoo logo, which has been widely characterized as offensive and racist.
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Any residual negative connotations are being scrubbed from that list: the racist caricature of Chief Wahoo, the Cleveland team's emblem, is being phased out.
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On Monday, Major League Baseball said that the Cleveland Indians will no longer use the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms as of 2019.
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"When the police got there, I told them that a sniper shot me… to save Wahoo," Slater told Mid-Atlantic Gateway in an interview.
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The teams name their bikes, such as the Velox 7, Wahoo, Eta Prime, Dos to the Tres, Super Ketta 162, Taurus and Blue Nose.
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A pan-seared fillet of wahoo was nestled into a mound of mofongo, a savory Puerto Rican staple of mashed plantains, garlic and pork.
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Baseball fans, even outside Cleveland, have been looking at Chief Wahoo for so long that many of us have become inured to the logo.
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But Chief Wahoo was still used by Cleveland, including during high-profile games in the postseason (the team reached the World Series in 2016).
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Native American activists have criticized the use of Chief Wahoo for decades, and the team only recently made an ultimately hollow gesture of understanding.
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So to it will be for Chief Wahoo, the Redskins name or any other racially charged relic that teams may want to slough off.
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In a Cyprien Gaillard piece, the cartoon face of Chief Wahoo — the logo of the Cleveland Indians — is superimposed on a pristine American landscape.
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"If you wear a hat with Chief Wahoo on it, you can go all over the world ... and they'll know where you're from," he said.
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At the time, the Indians used only one logo on their cap — Chief Wahoo, the toothy caricature they have used, off and on, for decades.
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Chief Wahoo, a cartoonish caricature of a Native American that has assumed several forms over the years, first appeared on the Indians' uniforms in 1948.
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Last year, the MLB's Cleveland Indians parted ways with their Chief Wahoo logo and removed the Native American caricature this season from the team's jerseys.
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Initially, the team logo was changed to a "Block C" in 2014, but Chief Wahoo remained on the uniforms and caps, as well as on merchandise.
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A small group of protesters outside Progressive Field called on the team to stop using its Chief Wahoo logo, a symbol some Native Americans find offensive.
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Using Bluetooth, ANT+, and ANT+ FE-C, you can control it wirelessly from just about any device using the Wahoo Fitness App, Zwift, TrainerRoad, and more.
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Wahoo TICKR Heart Rate Monitor, Bluetooth / ANT+, available from Amazon for $49.99 If your mom is a fitness fiend, then she'll love this heart rate monitor.
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Administrators of the Facebook group Keep Chief Wahoo, which is followed by about 17,000 people, did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday night.
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The Cleveland Indians will be ditching their Chief Wahoo logo, a symbol that is popular with the baseball team's fans but is widely seen as racist.
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Through email, Wahoo says that he remade the beat from scratch for Paul during early discussions since no one could locate who Durant got the beat from.
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In almost every direction there was a celebration, except along Ontario St., where a small group of protesters campaigned against the Indians name and Chief Wahoo logo.
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In January, Major League Baseball announced that the Indians would stop using Chief Wahoo on their uniforms in 2019, making this season something of a swan song.
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During the World Series, he posed for a picture on Instagram, where he has 55,000 followers, wearing a sweatshirt that mocked the Cleveland Indian's Chief Wahoo mascot.
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The Cleveland Indians (terrible Chief Wahoo logo aside) have made the MLB playoffs three of the last five seasons, including the dramatic 22018 World Series against the Cubs.
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He designed what became known as the Indians' Chief Wahoo logo in 1946, when he was a 73-year-old working for his family's design business near Cleveland.
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The Indians changed the logo to a block "C" in 2014 -- but players voted to wear caps and uniforms with the Chief Wahoo image for the 2016 postseason.
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In something like Chief Wahoo's defense: Non-Clevelander critics often fail to understand that there are real reasons why Chief Wahoo persists, none of which (overtly) involve racism.
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But the World Series will go on, with the Indians seeking their first championship since 1948 and Chief Wahoo front and center on their new World Series caps.
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The wheel-off design of the Wahoo Fitness Kickr Smart Bike Trainer provides accurate power measurement, and it works well with the top apps using ANT+ and Bluetooth.
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Napoli and Jason Kipnis have returned Jobu to the fold: Why don't the Indians just ditch Chief Wahoo once and for all and make Jobu the team's emblem?
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The team logo was actually officially changed to a "Block C" in 2014, but Chief Wahoo remained on the team uniforms and caps, as well as on merchandise.
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MLB said that Chief Wahoo will still be available on limited merchandise available for purchase in Northeast Ohio and Goodyear, Arizona, where the team spends the spring training season.
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Fortunately, they allowed me to get take out — a generous portion of ceviche negra (170 pesos), zesty cubes of wahoo fish served with a bag of fresh tortilla chips.
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The Chief Wahoo logo was at the center of a legal dispute in Canada when the Indians played the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2016 American League Championship Series.
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Monique Jilesen, a lawyer for Cardinal, told McEwen that the game could be played with spring training uniforms that do not carry the name or the Chief Wahoo logo.
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While getting rid of Chief Wahoo will be applauded by opponents, some may see it as only the first step toward the ultimate goal of changing the team name.
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This week, after years of protests, the team announced this week that it will abandon Chief Wahoo, an over the top cartoon stereotype that was widely seen as racist.
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"I think there will be a day, whenever that is, that the people that are making decisions here decide that Chief Wahoo is no longer fitting," he said then.
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The logo could also be found on many items in the team souvenir shop, along with stickers depicting an even harsher representation of Chief Wahoo from an earlier period.
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He was also famously involved in an incident during the early 80's, where wrestler Wahoo McDaniel accidentally shot Slater in the leg during an altercation at an Atlanta bar.
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The shirt also flips the script by replacing the image of Chief Wahoo with a blonde white guy with the dollar symbol poking out from the back of his head.
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Of course, earlier this year ... the Cleveland Indians began the process to DITCH Chief Wahoo as the team mascot after backlash from fans and critics who deemed the logo offensive.
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In Wahoo, Nebraska, for example, the police department dropped its body camera program last November after a video storage law increased costs for the five-person police force by $15,000.
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The Wahoo Elemnt Bolt connects to every sensor seamlessly, offers intuitive controls, and has a clear display so you'll have easy access to all the data you could ever want.
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The largest American Indians organization in the country says the Cleveland Indians finally retiring Chief Wahoo is huge ... and they're crediting MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred with getting the logo scrubbed.
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While it is hard to imagine the Cleveland "Indians" and Chief Wahoo ceasing to exist, the legal motions of Douglas Cardinal might lead to some kind of acknowledgement and action.
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In response, Manfred said he saw a difference between one player specifically targeting another with a racial stereotype and the Chief Wahoo logo, but acknowledged that each one was troublesome.
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There were many wealthy fishermen in the Southeast, he said, and they would be lured back here so long as there were dolphin, wahoo, and blackfin tuna to be caught.
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In 2014, under Mark Shapiro, the team president at the time, the Indians reduced the use of the Chief Wahoo logo and introduced a block C as their primary insignia.
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Or maybe it could be brushed off as a tip of the racist cap to the uniform he played in: this particular Chief Wahoo was the logo from 1946 to 1950.
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In 2018, the Cleveland Indians announced they would remove all depictions of their cartoonish "Chief Wahoo" logo from official team uniforms (the caricature still appears on fan gear and other items).
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On the other hand, last year the Cleveland Indians organization announced that it would no longer use imagery of Chief Wahoo, a cartoonish caricature of a Native American, on its uniforms.
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After more than 60 years as a mascot for MLB's Cleveland Indians, the red-faced Chief Wahoo will no longer appear on game jerseys and caps starting in the 2019 season.
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During last year's American League Championship Series between the Blue Jays and Indians, Shapiro said that he was personally troubled by the Wahoo logo and suggested that its days were numbered.
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When the Indians-Blue Jays playoff series moved to Toronto last October, an indigenous Canadian citizen filed for an injunction to prevent Cleveland from using the Wahoo logo while in Canada.
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He is not a retrogressive racist caricature, which means that she or he is already better than Chief Wahoo which, not to belabor the point or anything, is an extraordinarily racist image.
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Major League Baseball team the Cleveland Indians announced in January that the caricature of a Native American warrior known as "Chief Wahoo" would be removed from their uniforms from the 2019 season.
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This decision was due in large part because James's agent Rich Paul got in contact with Wahoo and suggested the song could be used in a commercial or "background music" for NBA 2K19.
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The season began with an announcement that the Chief Wahoo logo has been relegated to a secondary logo and that the organization was moving ahead with the block "C" has their primary logo.
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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the Minneapolis-based American Indian Movement, or AIM, said Chief Wahoo was the "ugliest" of the many mascots based on Native American caricatures used by American sports teams.
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Baja Fresh gives taco seekers plenty of options, from snack-sized grilled taquitos to three-taco platters with rice and beans, with fillings ranging from grilled chicken and steak to fried wahoo fish.
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Relocated in 230 from its old home in Lower Manhattan, it is almost a quarter-mile long, with almost 232 seafood wholesalers selling more than 383 varieties of fish, from barramundi to wahoo.
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Its enthusiasts claim that the fishing in and around Plaquemines is the best anywhere — tuna, dolphin, wahoo, whale shark and marlin in the deep blue seas; redfish, flounder and speckled trout closer in.
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A less extravagant alternative sits across the street — the fishy favorite Eddy's Ghetto, where for about one-third the price, you can dine on beef or wahoo (ask to sit in the garden).
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While eating my breakfast chocolate, I check the workout of the day for my HIIT class later and am pleased to see there will be no running outside in the humidity and rain. Wahoo!
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The Cleveland Indians are bidding adieu to Chief Wahoo, their controversial Native American mascot who has served as the team's primary logo until recently and has still had a major presence with the team.
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Mark Shapiro, who was a longtime front office executive with the Indians and the team president before going to work for the Blue Jays, has stated that the Chief Wahoo logo personally bothered him.
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TORONTO — An Ontario judge on Monday quashed a last-minute attempt to bar the Cleveland Indians from using their team name and their Chief Wahoo logo during a playoff game in Toronto that night.
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Lawyers for Cardinal argued in an Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the Indians nickname and "Chief Wahoo" logo - a smiling cartoon man with red skin and a feather in his headband - are derogatory.
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During the 2016 postseason, Douglas Cardinal, an indigenous Canadian activist, sought an injunction from a Canadian court to prevent Cleveland from using uniforms depicting Chief Wahoo or the team name while playing in Toronto.
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Now that the successful test is complete, I'm truly sad that we have to return the Kickr to Wahoo, but hey someone has a birthday coming up, and the company just released its latest version.
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The logo created controversy during the 2016 American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, when a Canadian judge ruled the "Chief Wahoo" mascot did not illegally discriminate against indigenous people under Canadian law.
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For decades, community activists in northeast Ohio have held demonstrations at the Cleveland Indians' home opener to protest the team's name and logo — a grinning, red-faced caricature named Chief Wahoo that some consider racist.
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The heightened atmosphere was likely in part because of the team's decision to stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on its uniforms beginning next year — which angered some fans when it was announced in January.
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The Cleveland Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms beginning in 2019, according to Major League Baseball, which said the popular symbol was no longer appropriate for use on the field.
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The same one that corrupts American minds so greatly that it convinced otherwise kind people to point to a figure as garish as "Chief Wahoo" and claim it as a vital part of their lives.
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But Chief Wahoo still appears on the left sleeve of their jerseys, and they were wearing it on their caps last Tuesday when shortstop Francisco Lindor spoke with reporters after making his first All-Star team.
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Compatible with smartphones that have Bluetooth and ANT+ capabilities, she'll be able to measure her heart rate and calorie burn in real time with the Wahoo app, or third-party apps like Nike+ Running or MapMyFitness.
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MLB had urged the team to remove Chief Wahoo even though many of its fans had wanted to keep the logo, which made its debut in 1947, according to a statement issued by MLB and the Indians.
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"While we recognize many of our fans have a longstanding attachment to Chief Wahoo, I'm ultimately in agreement with Commissioner Manfred's desire to remove the logo from our uniforms in 2019," Cleveland Indians owner Paul Dolan said.
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Native American groups have been fighting to change the name of the Washington Redskins, Casanova-Bell said, and the Cleveland Indians dropped the Native American caricature Chief Wahoo from the Major League Baseball team's uniforms in 2018.
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While flying back home this weekend after a trip to see family in Virginia, I spied at Reagan National Airport dozens of R-word shirts and memorabilia, two Kansas City Chiefs jerseys, and one Chief Wahoo hat.
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So, when Major League Baseball announced Monday that the Chief Wahoo logo would, come 2019, no longer be used on uniforms or any banners or signs in Cleveland's Progressive Field, my initial reaction was one of relief.
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The MLB said the decision was made, after years of slowly drawing back official use of the logo, that the Chief Wahoo image "was no longer appropriate for use on the field," according to the New York Times.
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Instead, it's a somber cut featuring looped guitar licks—courtesy of Wahoo and his brother/partner Stu Billionaire—as the two players rap about the foils of being rich and the impact of losing and living without family.
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After a Canadian court denied an activist's injunction Monday night, the Cleveland Indians will be allowed to continue to use their nickname, along with their infamous Chief Wahoo logo, during MLB postseason games played this season in Toronto.
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Attorneys for Cardinal argued that the Indians instead could use spring training or batting practice uniforms that don't say "Indians" or feature Chief Wahoo, and the team frequently wears a cap with a block "C" logo for games.
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Op-Ed Contributor CLEVELAND — At Municipal Stadium on the shore of Lake Erie, the crowd that came out to see the Cleveland Indians play often seemed to be just me, some neighbors and the team mascot, Chief Wahoo.
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He'll face batters playing for a team whose nickname and logo — a Native American cartoon named Chief Wahoo, who sports an oversized nose and a bright red face — have long drawn the ire of protest groups, indigenous and otherwise.
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They are just one series removed from a situation where they, Major League Baseball, and Rogers Communications were literally sued to try to prevent showing the current red-faced Wahoo during the games in Toronto against the Blue Jays.
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This year, the Cleveland Indians announced that they would stop using their Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms beginning in 2019, continuing a decades-long trend in which thousands of such references have disappeared from the American sports landscape.
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In April, the Major League Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfred, said he told the owners of the Cleveland Indians that he hoped the team would abandon its use of the Chief Wahoo logo, a smiling caricature that dates to 1947.
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Although many people, including baseball fans around the country, would welcome the removal of Chief Wahoo, there is a significant segment of the Indians' fan base that still cherishes the logo, which has existed in various forms since 1947.
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With their sights set on a return to the World Series, the Indians would prefer to address Chief Wahoo after the season to avoid any distractions that could alienate a large swath of fans while games are being played.
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Every single time anyone watches the delirious Rajai Davis home run from Game 219 of last year's World Series, they will see Chief Wahoo on Davis' right shoulder, staring out at Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman and the rest of the world.
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The announcement was made on Monday, via the New York Times, as the team said the Wahoo logo, long derided as a racist caricature by many, would be fully removed from the team's current set of jerseys and logos by 2019.
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The Cleveland Indians are returning to the World Series for the first time in 19 years on Tuesday, and with that will come renewed protests over the team's name and Chief Wahoo logo, a depiction some consider a highly offensive caricature.
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Richard O'Kane, who was dealt an incredible winning hand before his Gato-class sub, USS Wahoo, sank two Japanese freighters in 1943, was passed from the USS Bremerton to the Olympia when the latter became the oldest fast-attack sub.
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At Tuesday's game, the Chief Wahoo logo could not be seen anywhere on the stadium building or on the field, but it was on the left sleeves of the blue jerseys worn by the Indians players and on their caps.
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The Times said that the MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, has pushed for the change for some time: Chief Wahoo, a cartoonish caricature of a Native American that has assumed several forms over the years, first appeared on the Indians' uniforms in 1948.
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While the team name is staying, the (mostly) thorough removal of the Wahoo logo is the biggest move yet among teams who have faced criticism over the way they portray indigenous peoples, including the ongoing storm brewing over the Washington NFL franchise.
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While the Chicago Cubs cherish the definitive end of "Curse of the Billy Goat" with their first World Series win in 108 years on Wednesday, Cleveland baseball fans must reckon with whether their loss was retribution for their racist mascot: Chief Wahoo.
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"I applaud the team's decision to show the city, nation and world that Cleveland is an inclusive place that values all diversity - in this case showing greater honor to our nation's first people by retiring the Wahoo mascot from uniforms," he said.
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The decision, while not a complete abandonment of the logo, stands as a victory for Native American communities and their allies, many of whom have often raised objections to the use of the Chief Wahoo logo and similar images by other teams.
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Meanwhile, last Thursday — a day before the Indians beat the Chicago Cubs in World Series Game 3 while wearing Chief Wahoo hats — Native American protesters in North Dakota were fired upon with rubber bullets and water cannons by armored law enforcement officers.
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Our final stop was at Woodys, a local dive bar that sits across from picturesque Boaz Island Bay, so we could finally try a fried fish sandwich: wahoo with all the fixings — cheese, coleslaw, tartar sauce and hot sauce — on raisin bread.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cleveland Indians will remove the grinning "Chief Wahoo" logo from their uniforms beginning in the 2019 season, the baseball team said on Monday, in a bow to critics who have long assailed the image as a racist Native American caricature.
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At his news conference on Saturday, Manfred was also asked why Major League Baseball was quick to punish Gurriel while the Cleveland Indians are permitted to use their Chief Wahoo logo, which is viewed by many people as an offensive caricature of Native Americans.
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Major League Baseball announced this week that the Cleveland Indians would stop using the team's cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo on uniforms next year, but similar moves by professional teams and colleges around the country in recent years have rarely proved to be simple or absolute.
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On Monday, the MLB confirmed that the racist icon—a Native American caricature nicknamed Chief Wahoo—is "no longer appropriate for on-field use" and will be removed from the team's uniforms by the start of the 2019 season, the New York Times reported.
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But after coming across an XXL magazine story last year about the rumoured recording session, Wahoo decided to release a 30-second snippet of the track "It Ain't Easy" during the NBA Finals and offered to release the entire track if it got over a million retweets.
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Read: San Francisco Will Clear Thousands of Marijuana Convictions In 2016, Douglas Cardinal, the prominent architect and Indigenous activist of Métis, Blackfoot and Algonquin background, unsuccessfully sought a court order blocking the Cleveland Indians from using their name and their Chief Wahoo logo at a playoff game in Toronto.
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Opposition to the name and the logo was renewed last week during the American League Championship Series in Toronto when Douglas Cardinal, an indigenous Canadian activist, sought a last-minute court injunction to prevent the team from using uniforms depicting the Indians' name or the Chief Wahoo logo while in Toronto.
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In Cleveland, the Chief Wahoo logo has been the target of some critical commentary in the news media, and the Indians themselves have made efforts in recent years to reduce the prominence of the logo, giving more visibility to an alternate "C" as a block-letter insignia on Cleveland caps.
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Imagine what the baseballs looked like in the early 220th century: "We'd play a whole game with one ball, if it stayed in the park," Wahoo Sam Crawford, a Hall of Famer who played from 25 to 2000, says in "The Glory of Their Times," a book by Lawrence S. Ritter.
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So it's heartening that this week Major League Baseball announced a decision by the Cleveland Indians to remove the controversial Chief Wahoo logo from the team's uniforms in the 2019 season — a move that might be considered literally the least the team could do after decades of protests by Native American activists.
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"While we agreed with MLB to remove the logo from our on-field uniforms, we understand the connection many in the Cleveland community have with Chief Wahoo, and we will support that relationship by continuing its presence on merchandise [in] our market," the team said in a FAQ about the decision on their website.
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When they gave out ALCS Championship Rings, because their organization has fallen prey to Participation Trophy Syndrome, Cleveland kept Chief Wahoo—the thing they stubbornly kept on their hats for good luck all the way through the playoffs and into the World Series, which they lost—like a million miles away from the whole thing.
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At his four-month-old restaurant — a roomy modern space where jars of ground Ranchopatel chiles serve as both pantry and folk art — Mr. Patel may marinate the tropical game fish called wahoo in fresh turmeric, serving a still-raw slice alongside bhel puri, a mix of puffed rice with green mango and herby chutney.
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It is a season in which the Indians may again be one of the top teams in baseball, but it is also one in which they may have to wrestle increasingly with the issue of Chief Wahoo, the smiling caricature that has long been an Indians logo but has come to be seen as offensive and wildly outdated.
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MLB should probably bring unilateral action against Chief Wahoo, but commissioners and the adjacent sports-league apparatus work for the owners, and so instead of taking direct action against the hateful cartoon they're more sort of, uh, suggesting, that the team that plays in Cleveland might uh refrain from sticking that super crazy racist cartoon on their hats, if that was a thing that team wanted to do.
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As is the case with the R-word or Chief Wahoo, I grew to understand that the belief I used to justify the use of these practices as a kid—of believing that these twisted forms of representation were better than being wholly secluded to the history books and the hellish depictions popularized by Spaghetti Westerns—didn't hold weight when pressed with even the lightest application of critical thought.
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