Anyone who is offended by Southside Samurai has been brainwashed beyond repair.

4 minutes ago, oldsox said:

Anyone who is offended by Southside Samurai has been brainwashed beyond repair.

I don't like Southside Samurai because it's generic and lazy. Like calling Tanner McDougal the "Lakefront Leprechaun". Or calling Noah Schultz the "Out-gettin' Kraut". But that's the world we live in. SS Samurai is safe, kids could remember it, generic. I think some people react dramatically to one's ethnicity being put in the spotlight.

One time at a work Xmas party, I was telling a couple younger kids about how my parents would always point out the Ukrainians among us. There was a resentment that went back to the war, and who sided with Russia and who sided with Germany. Those 20-somethings looked like they wanted to run away, they were so nervous about any ethnicity being discussed around them.

Edited Saturday at 05:19 PM1 day by WestEddy

Top post on reddit baseball right now with 1.5 million subscribers is about the Southside Samurai and what a great nickname it is. John needs to bring it back

Just now, Buehrle>Wood said:

Top post on reddit baseball right now with 1.5 million subscribers is about the Southside Samurai and what a great nickname it is. John needs to bring it back

Apparently actual Japanese like it more than Americans. I think it is corny but hey who really cares. If people like it they like it. I just wonder if Mune asked the Sox to 86 it for now on the broadcasts.

14 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Apparently actual Japanese like it more than Americans. I think it is corny but hey who really cares. If people like it they like it. I just wonder if Mune asked the Sox to 86 it for now on the broadcasts.

Mune said he liked it when John asked him about it

Edited Saturday at 05:43 PM1 day by DoUEvenShift

32 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

I don't like Southside Samurai because it's generic and lazy. Like calling Tanner McDougal the "Lakefront Leprechaun". Or calling Noah Schultz the "Out-gettin' Kraut". But that's the world we live in. SS Samurai is safe, kids could remember it, generic. I think some people react dramatically to one's ethnicity being put in the spotlight.

One time at a work Xmas party, I was telling a couple younger kids about how my parents would always point out the Ukrainians among us. There was a resentment that went back to the war, and who sided with Russia and who sided with Germany. Those 20-somethings looked like they wanted to run away, they were so nervous about any ethnicity being discussed around them.

Differences between Schultz/McDougal examples and Mune is that Mune is actually Japanese and that Japan generally embraces samurai as a positive representation of their culture (and especially relevant to competitive sports). Better analogy would be something like an American player having a cowboy nickname or something like that. I think Randy Bass got branded as a Colonel Sanders lookalike in NPB, lol