I’m not a baseball fan, but several readers wrote in about the Yankees-Rangers game last night. A sample:

Reader K…

Michelle, did you happen to see last night’s Texas Rangers NY Yankees baseball game? The Rangers uniforms were changed to read “LOS Rangers.” I guess this was done for that great American holiday, 5th of May. What an insult to the Texas Rangers.

Reader Steve…

I’m watching the Yankees-Rangers game tonight. I watch sports incessantly, and I can’t recognize who the Yankees are playing. Wooops, the “Los Rangers” painted on the front of their jersey. I had to work for three innings to figure that out because it was nothing but “neck-up” or wide angle shots.

Don’t try checking ESPN.com (“CNN of sports”) or any other major sports website, it’s not even mentioned or advertised…Google searches will reveal obscure articles attributing the uniform to a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Certainly not a coincidental political statement, right? The hell with the MLB, I’m not watching another game.

The Mexican consul approved of the jerseys:

The Consul of Mexico, Sr. Carlos Garcia de Alba, shared his support of the special jerseys in saying, “The Consulate of Mexico congratulates the Texas Rangers for this initiative and thanks them for the support that they are continually giving to the Hispanic community.”

I understand the Rangers wanted to do something innocuous to recognize a holiday celebrating historical and cultural pride. But the politically correct selectivity here is telling. While it’s considered a celebration of “diversity” to acknowledge the military sacrifices of another nation’s heroes, it’s considered racist to acknowledge the military sacrifices of one’s own.

Case in point: Can you imagine if someone proposed changing the Rangers’ jerseys to “Confederate Rangers” to celebrate Confederate Heroes’ Day?

Oh, and I’m sure I’ll be labeled a racist for pointing out the double standard.

Like that’s anything new…

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Reader Bill writes:

If the Rangers organization REALLY wanted to kowtow to their Mexican-American and Mexican illegal audience, they should have put “Los Rinches” on their uniforms. That is the Mexican slang used to put down the Texas Rangers, sort of like calling them “pigs”.

Blogger Rick M. quips:

I understand that just for last night’s game, stolen bases were known as “undocumented bases”, and no one was allowed to be thrown out.

LOL.