Former Big Leaguer Turned Broadcaster Jim Edmonds Runs Afoul of the Left With Comments Supporting Native American Team Names
The controversy over Native American team names has cooled in recent years with the bending of the knee and name changes for franchises like the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins. Never mind that few outside of the woke left, including an estimated 90 percent of Native Americans, were actually offended by the names, real or make-believe.
The issue has been undergoing a rebirth in recent months, as a number of Native Americans have decried the changes, with one group going as far as to formally request the Washington Commanders name be changed back to the Washington Redskins.
Whether that will ever happen or not is highly debatable, however, as leftists everywhere still see fit to make it their mission in life to ruin good things and be generally unpleasant. Many former athletes, like Yankee great David Wells, have become more outspoken regarding racial and social issues in recent times, and the tide indeed seems to be turning back from the extreme wokeness and cancellation around the issue.
That hasn’t stopped wokesters from attacking former big league great Jim Edmunds, however. The former St Louis Cardinal slugger turned Cardinal broadcaster made some comments Thursday night during the Cards playoff games that have some on the left fuming.
Edmonds made the comments during the Astros-Cardinals game when he and fellow broadcaster Chip Caray, the grandson of the legendary Harry Caray, were filling time during the game, discussing renaming sports teams.