If someone were to have guessed back in April how the curse of Chief Wahoo would do its thing this season—in which the Cleveland MLB team announced its agreement that “the [Wahoo] logo is no longer appropriate for on-field use in Major League Baseball,” but also that it would give the racist symbol a year-long farewell tour anyway—this would have been a good guess: Spend all summer inflating fans’ hopes by making the most of MLB’s unbalanced schedule to beat up on a historically weak slate of divisional foes only to immediately flame out the postseason in a three-game sweep that ends with a loss in front of the home crowd on Columbus Day—a national holiday honoring a child-rapist, mass-murderer, and father of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which owes its continued existence to the same structural ignorance and ahistoricity that allows the “Cleveland Indians” to maintain their racist branding in 2018.
Chief Wahoo’s last stand on Columbus Day is just perfect
