HOUSTON – 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of
Major League Baseball in Houston and the Astros are planning many season-long
celebrations. The Astros are slated to
wear throwback Colt .45 jerseys in games to be played on April 10 and 20, but
the MLB has banned an iconic symbol from those jerseys, the image of the Colt .45
pistol.
More than any other sport on planet
Earth Major League Baseball is steeped in history and tradition. Baseball fanatics wallow in bygone days and
legends of the past cherishing the minutiae of the history of America’s pastime. Yet political correctness and societal
pressure to go with revisionist history buckled the weak-kneed MLB into
outlawing the image of the gun that tamed the west.
The MLB is rewriting
Major League Baseball history, Houston history and the history of the American
West by denying the existence of the Samuel Colt revolver dubbed the “peace
maker” that was worn proudly on the jersey of
Houston’s first big league team and was the inspiration for the name of the team itself.
The Astros can still wear throwback
jerseys from the days of the old Colt .45’s.
They can still display the name “Colt .45’s,” but they can’t include the
cartoonish drawing of the gun itself.
Why? Society as we know it might
crumble and young baseball fans all over Houston would be compelled to go on
wild killing sprees or something equally horrific.
Astros rep Mike Acosta wrote to Astros Daily –
“We realize this changes the original design, but we still want to honor
the Colt .45s. We are also under an obligation to follow Major League
Baseball’s requests. Personally I can see how in this time period any sports league …
would not want a team logo associated with a weapon on their uniform that
is broadcast to many people.”
More than rewriting history, Major League
Baseball and its fearful leader, Bud Selig, has decided it has an obligation to make moral decisions for its fans. Selig has fallen into that trap of assuming it must act to save us all from
ourselves and that Major League Baseball has a moral obligation to protect our
children from….us.
Sorry, MLB but you’d have more credibility if a majority of your base revenue weren’t derived from
the sale of beer at the parks and from television revenue driven from the sale of even more beer.
Check some statistics and you’ll find drunk driving and alcohol abuse extract a far deadlier toll on your young fan base than do guns or, more precisely, a drawing of a gun.
Honor the
history of the Astros and Houston Major League Baseball by allowing the team to
wear the full jersey of those bygone days before the Dome when Texas baseball
paid homage to our state’s western heritage, and leave it to the fans to make moral decisions for their own families by choosing to attend or watch the games where the jerseys are worn.
The MLB needs to stick to managing the league and let us decide what’s okay for our children.
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I think some companies in Houston should get together and pass out t-shirts with the original logo on them to all fans before these games. Let’s just see if MLB can stop that. Come on Continental Airlines and Waste Mgt.
Good use of satire in the article. I sure am glad that this Politically Correct garbage is affecting you folks south of the 49th… I was starting to think that only we Canadians had to put up with it.
Just kidding, I’m equally sad for our American friends and neighbours.