Comments on: Baseball Mascot Gets New Name After ‘PorkChop’ Is Deemed Offensive

By: Bloviating Zeppelin

Bloviating Zeppelin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:54:57 +0000

Ranando: I like the name “Damp Ankles” for the mascot.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:17:41 +0000

I never heard it used before, not as an insult to ANYONE, of any race or nationality…

I think it’s totally ridiculous…

Pork chop, pork chop,
Greasy greasy…

We’ll beat your team,
Easy easy…

Other than ordering lunch or supper, that’s the only other use I ever heard for PorkChop, I think the SOB must be a Drama Queen, likely cries about poll questions too…

By: BobF

BobF — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:00:23 +0000

I grew up in New York where their are quite a few Puerto Ricans and have never herd them referred to as pork chop…other names but not that.

Mr. Lopez claims to have worked at Bethlehem Steel. I was under the impression only men worked in those steel mills. Mr. Lopez needs to grow up some more.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:47:38 +0000

Pork Chop is derogatory? I’ve never heard of anyone being referred to as pork chop, unless it had something to do with those awful sideburns. Where do these people come up with this crap?

By: OldTexan

OldTexan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:29:58 +0000

As a Mexican friend of my told me, we must become sesitive to the cultural differences that words carry with other people. As an example I was informed that the term Greaser was never to be used when describing people who’s origins are right south of our border. He expalined that henceforth the proper term ‘Lubricano’ will be used.

By: Robocop

Robocop — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:03:45 +0000

They could have named their mascot “Backstroke.”

By: gunz

gunz — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:54:37 +0000

It would make a little more sense if the mascot was named ‘greasy’ pork chop, or ‘Grissel’, then there could be a correlation with Hispanics…

Look out, the San Diego chicken might be in trouble too, the black community will want his ass on a platter now, with a biscuit.

Long over due.

Damn post made me hungry

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:03:57 +0000

I am Mexican and have been called many derogatory terms, yet I see that the mascot is a pig so it desearves a name like Pork Chop. Pork Chop is a food to me. If people use it as a derogatory term for hispanic people then that is wrong, but I still don’t see why the Vice President Guillermo LÃ³pez of the Latino Leadership Alliance is opposing this. The prevention of racist offensive comments begins with a good education at home, not with censorship of words that exist in the English language. Vice President Guillermo LÃ³pez was perhaps ridiculed for being overweight and his picture on the Latino Leadership Alliance website proves it. http://www.llalv.org/board2.html Now, if you are an adult working in a factory like Mr. Lopez and you can not take action to prevent ridicule by talking to upper management or presenting yourself as someone who demands respect then you are a weak person. Every minority endures some type of hardship but this censorship is ridiculous. Words crudely invented to depict a race in a derogatory form such as beaner should not be used for naming anything. However, pork chop which is a food, and fitting to what the mascot is should be used. What is next are we going to change the mascot just because it reminds us of pork chops, which Mr. Lopez finds derogatory? What a looser.