How should I get there? Just after the game on June 6, 2021. You now have a Guide and you have thus been warned. So rule of thumb: enjoy the Battery, but be prepared to leave early if you go on Sunday. The relevant bit is queued up for you and lasts about a minute, but even without context, the rest of the eight-minute clip is pretty good and entirely improvised.) Also, I wish I had people as lively and entertaining to play tabletop games with, but that’s sharing outside the purview of the Guide. (Once again, this recommendation is an off the beaten path gem I am happy to share with you all. Here is Brennan Lee Mulligan of Dropout in Dimension 20: Misfits and Magic, in a legally distinct from Harry Potter setting that adequately summarizes my feelings in the immediate aftermath of hearing the chant. In fact, I think we all need a palette cleanser after all this point of discussion. Case in point - although I have heard that this signage came down. The fact that the Atlanta team still tries to lean into the chant as much as they can get away with it pretty much tells you all you need to know about the stadium experience of Truist Park, which greatly mars what is generally a pleasant baseball watching experience, even in non-cooperative weather. You may be fine with it, and I honestly do not care if you are. (Hat tip to Lewis Black.) Generally, I drink 2% milk, water, or Diet Coke, depending on the situation. Otherwise, that liquid is soy juice, which sounds empirically disgusting. You show me a mammal that lactates soy liquid and you can call it milk. That’s irrelevant and I do not as there is no such thing as soy milk.Admittedly, I was a bit ambivalent about the entire affair (this chant is probably bad, but it is not my problem is where my headspace was) until my visit and the crowd repeatedly broke into the chant and I was like “nope, this chant is bad, empirically so, you should all feel bad, oh my god what I am actually doing here.” I literally can demonstrate to you empirical proof that said chant is not honoring Native Americans.Unless you’re Native American, no, it’s not.I can already hear complaints in my head going “oh, it’s part of our culture / we’re honoring Native Americans / you’re being overly sensitive / you clearly drink soy milk.” This game was the first game I went to in 2021 that had no COVID restrictions at all (which was problematic in itself, considering the general apathy to hostility to COVID vaccination I encountered while in Atlanta), and being surrounded by about 37,000 to 40,000 screaming fans was a thrill. The description of the included video makes my feelings on the subject quite clear. The pace of the celebration seemed to vary whether you were waiting in downtown Atlanta or by Truist Park in Cumberland. You would think that the team would have basked in last year’s title, and rightfully so, the first title in over twenty-five years. Technically, if you go on Google Maps, the team is still located in Atlanta, just on the furthest possible edge, which is not as widely known as you would think if you do not live in the area. The Dodger equivalent would be moving to a site at the furthest edge of Los Angeles. After that year, the team segregated themselves from the city of Atlanta by moving to the Cumberland area, which is an edge city in Cobb County located in an unincorporated area of the northwest Atlanta metropolitan area, Georgia, United States. If everyone was being honest, this team would be called the Cumberland Baseball Team, because this team has not been located in downtown Atlanta since 2016. Also, the less said about the local chant, the better. But it hovers in the consciousness after the visit in exactly the way that a brick does not. The Guide says the following about Truist Park:
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