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Baseball
Prospectus accidentally calls Jewish Red Sox player "Youkike"
By
Cyd Zeigler jr.
The blog
Fire
Joe Morgan has pointed out that something is amiss with
the Baseball Prospectus player page of Red Sox infielder
Kevin Youkilis. The site uses the first five letters of the
player's last name and the first two letters of his first
name to create the unique URL for information on the player.
In this case,
the URL for Youkilis spells "Youkike."
"Kike" is
to a Jewish person what "faggot" is to a gay person. As
chance would have it, Youkilis is Jewish.
Baseball-reference.com
has the same naming convention, but they obviously caught
the lettering mishap. They replaced the "i" in Youkilis with
an l, so their URL reads:
youklke.
Openly
straight Red Sox fan Michael Liss, who is Jewish, doesn't
see what some of the already-brewing fuss is about.
"I don't
see any reason for them not to change it if it's been
presented to them as an issue," Liss told Outsports. "But at
the same time, I find it ridiculous to be offended by it.
It's a random assortment of letters that doesn't equal the
word it spells."
This will
surely discourage anyone named G. Youfa from pursuing a
career in baseball.
June 15,
2007 |
