The Cubs get one Japanese player, and a big number of Cubs fans get racist? I have no problem trying to make new Cubs right fielder Kosuke Fukudome feel welcome in Chicago. Can we try not to be dumb about it, though? Earlier this week, I saw a group of idiots standing in the bleachers wearing these hats:
Far be it from me to act like I’m politically correct, but come on. Not only are those hats generally associated with Chinese people (those are actually different from Japanese people, in case you weren’t aware), but it’s also a couple steps shy from wearing buck teeth and taping up the corners of your eyes.
At the game on Friday, I swear to God they were selling “HORRY COW” t-shirts. Seriously? I would like to think Cubs fans are capable of rooting for their team AND not looking like uneducated, racist idiots.
Can we? Please?
Meh. When Cubs fans start flying planes into buildings, aircraft carriers and other planes, then they will have gone too far.
Awesome.
I think Corey Lidle was a Cubs fan.
Next thing you know, people are going to be claiming things like sideways vaginas
The sideways vagina is no myth my friend…it is one of nature’s finest delicacies…
Heh…sideways vaginas.
Ridiculous. And pathetic.
I’m pretty sure it’s all due to the Michigan contingent of the Cubs fanbase.
Non-douchy Cubs fans are always having to adapt to new levels of unmitigated embarrassment.
I have always associated those hats with the Vietnamese…that being said, they actually are used in Japan as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_straw_hat
I love the signs in Japanese in the stands, and I heard today about the “Fukudometer”. How cool.
Leave the hats and the ridiculous ethnic slurs at home.
Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the “Horry Cow” shirts.
No better way to pay tribute to your newest star then blatant racism. At this rate, if Lee keeps it up, the stands are going to wind up looking like a damn minstrel show.
This is a new low for Cub fans. First the “It’s Gonna Happen” BS in mistranslated Japanese, now these goofy ass hats and Horry Cow. Shit, might as well start throwing copies of The Rape of Nanking on to the field next. How about a picture of a Japanese Zero with Kamikaze Fukudome written on the side? Christ Almighty. Super Jock might have been a whiner, but he got some of that racist shit too, and it wasn’t in “fun”, if this crapola can be referred to as such. What a joke. Do other teams have fans that are this retarded? Were they doing this shit in Boston when they got Matsuzaka? What about LA when Hideo Nomo came over? Arrgh.
Between the racist t-shirts, the friggin’ hats and those damn headbands, I was ashamed of our fans after seeing all the knuckleheads at the park on Saturday. It actually makes me sad that people don’t realize how offensive this stuff is. Can’t we just chant his name and cheer for him without having to play the Ugly Americans? Is that too much to ask?
Just when I thought the South Side had the market cornered on stupid and offensive shirts (think of the Wrigleyville gay-bashing numbers that are all the rage down there), some dipwads up on my side of town have to one-up them… jeez.
I’m all for turning our immediate attention to ripping the assholes behind stuff like you mentioned a new one. I’m even willing to put the “It’s Gonna Happen” douchebags on the back burner, if need be. They’re annoying as hell, but at least they don’t make the entire fan base look like a bunch of racist pigs.
I think it was great, I never laughed so hard at lunch time with my coworkers, and I dont think it is racist everybody likes fukodome, and I think that the Panda bear looks awesome with Harry’s glasses. There have been worse things out there than this.
If it’s not racist, why is Fukudome offended by it? And, sure, there have been worse things out there than this, but that doesn’t excuse the ignorance of the jagoff who’s profiting off these t-shirts.
What curse? Go cubs!