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Old 04-08-2013, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Does the Cincinnati Reds nickname promote communism?

The baseball team won a World Series in 1920, three years after the Bolshevik Revolution and in the midst of of a worldwide developing communist paradigm.

It won two World Series in 1975 and 1976, the year and the year after that the Second Indochina War ended with an emergent Communist Vietnam.

The Red's won another World Series in 1990, just a year before the fall of the Soviet Union.

Their nickname should require no explanation.

Coincidence?

 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:22 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, FL
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This is a joke, right?
REDS is a shortened version of their original name, the RED STOCKINGS, which was changed in the 1880's!.
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:24 PM
 
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Does the Cincinnati Reds nickname promote communism?

The baseball team won a World Series in 1920, three years after the Bolshevik Revolution and in the midst of of a worldwide developing communist paradigm.

It won two World Series in 1975 and 1976, the year and the year after that the Second Indochina War ended with an emergent Communist Vietnam.

The Red's won another World Series in 1990, just a year before the fall of the Soviet Union.

Their nickname should require no explanation.

Coincidence?
You can find a communist doing something in any year or the year before or three years after etc...

Oldest professional baseball team. Pure capitalism. 1869 Red Stockings.
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:27 PM
 
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No... but liberals do.
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:27 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrier View Post
Does the Cincinnati Reds nickname promote communism?

The baseball team won a World Series in 1920, three years after the Bolshevik Revolution and in the midst of of a worldwide developing communist paradigm.

It won two World Series in 1975 and 1976, the year and the year after that the Second Indochina War ended with an emergent Communist Vietnam.

The Red's won another World Series in 1990, just a year before the fall of the Soviet Union.

Their nickname should require no explanation.

Coincidence?
Yes. The team was started in 1881 as an independent club. they were originally called the Cincinnati Redstockings as the poster above me had said.

History of the Cincinnati Reds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:28 PM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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Yeah and I suppose that the Cleveland Browns were short for "brownshirts." Come on OP!
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:28 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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I'm sure communist liberals everywhere will have their little feelings hurt and their political sensibilities insulted.
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:49 PM
 
Location: Orlando
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The query is as lame as some of the posts. Guess some see the world as a liberal conspiracy or some such nonsense. cognitive dissonance is alive and well at CD
 
Old 04-08-2013, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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Allen? Allen West, is that you? Must be, with seeing commies under every rock and behind every bush.
 
Old 04-08-2013, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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Does the Cincinnati Reds nickname promote communism?

...

Coincidence?
Probably about as much as Stephen King's The Shining promotes it.

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