Red Reposter - Best of luck, Rangers

I’m not going to hate on the Cards for getting to the Series. They came from 10 games back in a crazy assed month. Braves choked, for sure, but the Cardinals had to play lights out the whole month to even make a choke possible… and they did.

Then they beat a tough Phillie team and a tough Brewers team.

That said, I’m still rooting for the Rangers in the Series over the Cardinals but not as an aspersion to the Cards.

so, it’s true NL love?

I mean it’s the Cards, brah

had the Brewers made the WS, then I’d root for them, but they didn’t….

I just can’t bring myself to root for them, therefore I’m rootin’ for the Fighting Former Volquezs

Afterwords, he rips of his Cards jersey to reveal a Reds one underneath

I’m a grower not a shower.

carry more weight.

I don’t think I could have passed any meaningful judgment on the WWII monument until I went there with my grandfather, who served in the Pacific. And he was able to look up relatives in the computer.

When are we having our next committee meeting regarding the plans for the Slyde statue?

I guess I was responding to a republican on my facebook who said “the MLK statue was made in china!” Sorry, misplaced.

probably b/c the part of it with him and the dog was just so larger than life

and everyone goes up and rubs the dog

I like the general concept and I love that it’s an oval. But I feel like there was so much political pressure to create a monument that they rushed through the process instead of finding a good one.

but statues aren’t the best places to show complexity. I agree with you in general that MLK has been watered down to the point of being somewhere to the right of Abe Lincoln, but I’m not sure how to do something to show his complexity short of having an MLK park like the FDR park (which I really like, btw).

It’s a shame that so few people know about the Poor People’s Campaign and his anti-war stances, plus there’s the tendency to interpret his emphasis on “nonviolence” as simply about conflict resolution when it was really about civil disobedience. However, I still would never use the word “militant.” Even as he tackled more controversial (at least by today’s standards) issues, he remained a proponent of nonviolence.

Calling a sculptor an “ace aesthetic hype man” and bullshit artist is a bit rich for me, I suppose. Blaming Lei for Mao’s shortcomings also doesn’t really seem to apply, as does getting upset that he’s Chinese. If the best American proposal was MLK playing a banjo and eating watermelon, should it have been chosen over this one?

And his final bit:

Yet I’m more than a little disappointed that a man who fought so intransigently, bravely, and beautifully for equality, of all things, has been set up for worship as a towering idol, more mountain than man, in the fabricated pantheon of the officially unofficial American state religion.

It gets people talking, which is good. And it’s the first modern-era person on the mall, which is fantastic. It’s going to have to be a symol, and as CA said, go to Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis for more information. I’m very happy MLK is on the mall, and even if the execution of the statue isn’t exactly what I had in my head, it’s better than none representation.

Probably in both cases.

to match their ideology with reality.

“Looks like I’m all out of fastballs”