{"id":11,"date":"2005-08-11T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=11"},"modified":"2005-08-11T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T06:51:38","slug":"atlanta-braves-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves Change Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='wp-content\/crackers.jpg' align=right alt='Crackers Uniform' \/>(ATLANTA) &#8211; In a bold move stemming from years of protests, the Atlanta Braves baseball team announced today that this would be their last season as the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that while there is a long history associated with the franchise nickname, the name is not as important as the game.  We can no longer be a party to oppression,&#8221; said a piece of paper handed out by nameless Time-Warner functionaries.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate press release, the Time-Warner committe on departmental internal and external nomenclature reported the team will internally be referred to as the Atlanta Division for Live Performing Sports Events Marketing, Promotion and Merchandising. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Externally we&#8217;ll call them the Committe Regarding Actual Corporate K Event Reality Systems or &#8216;CRACKERS&#8217;,&#8221; said the second piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt change was originally attributed to the controversy caused by a San Francisco radio announcer referring to the San Francisco Giants players as &#8220;brain-dead Carribeans.&#8221; Many Carribean players as well as the Giants manager took grave offense to the racial slur especially since some the worst players on the Giants are non-carribean. The families of many brain-dead patients have also protested over being compared to the Giants considering how they&#8217;ve played this year.<\/p>\n<p>However the controversy had no affect on the Time-Warner decision as corporate marketers had been meeting far too often to have heard about the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ATLANTA) &#8211; In a bold move stemming from years of protests, the Atlanta Braves baseball team announced today that this would be their last season as the Braves. &#8220;We believe that while there is a long history associated with the franchise nickname, the name is not as important as the game. We can no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}