Controversial Fukudome T-shirt pulled from stands

CubsHub found this 4/19/2008 on www.suntimes.com [flag]

Within hours of a Sun-Times report detailing the sale near Wrigley Field of a Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt bearing a racist image, the Cubs put a stop Friday to the production and sale of the shirt. [link]

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Some Cubs Fans Are Dumb
Published 4/19/2008 by Ryan Pierce at CubsHub
Some Cubs fans are dumb. When Kosuke Fukudome signed with the Cubs he was excited to be the first Japanese player for the Chicago Cubs. From all indications things were going well, as Cubs fans loved Fukudome and it seemed that Fukudome loved the fans. Various signs, headbands and jerseys have popped up in Wrigleyville in honor of Fukudome, and one in particular is garnering attention from many.

Cubs remedy T-Shirt scandal
Published 4/19/2008 by edwzipper at Sports Frog
... Within hours of a Sun-Times report detailing the sale near Wrigley Field of a Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt bearing a racist image, the Cubs put a stop Friday to the production and sale of the shirt. ...

Cubs Remove Racist Shirts From Wrigley
Published 4/19/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
... , media and fan outrage, much of it from Cubs fans themselves, forced the Cubs to step in and remove the t-shirt from the vendors outside Wrigley Field. Because the t-shirt featured licensed Cubs insignia, the vendors complied with the request, and -- poof! -- no more racism at Wrigley. ...

Racist Shirt Is Top Seller At Wrigley Field
Published 4/20/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Thankfully, the Cubs put a stop to the production and sales of these shirts after the Sun-Times report was released, but that doesn’t change the fact that these shirts were selling quite well during the opening weeks of the season. ...

Marisa Miller has good form (off the mound, I mean)
Published 4/21/2008 at Big League Stew
After last week's news of offensive Fukudome t-shirts (which are no longer being sold), Lou Piniella's distaste for Red Bull and Marty Brennaman's distaste for Cubs fans, I promised myself I'd be taking it a bit easy on the news out of Wrigleyville this week. Yet what kind of blogger would I be if I kept my new desktop image to myself? The above picture of Marisa Miller's first pitch (video) on Friday is from noted Wrigleyville photographer Will Byington, who has apparently graduated from taking the author's photos for ...

Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “Playground for the Cocksuckers” Edition
Published 4/25/2008 by Sweet Uncle Lou at Hire Jim Essian!
... Thanks to you guys, the Cubs removed the racist shirts from outside of Wrigley Field. Whaddya mean, “It was probably because Commissioner Gordon brought the shirts to the Cubs’ attention?” If ...

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Cubs T-Shirt Vendors: Capitalizing on Overt Racial Stereotypes

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/18/2008 on sports.aol.com

Myself and E have been talking about this all season and now that the mainstream media has hopped on it today, it bears bringing up: these t-shirts to your right vendors are selling outside Wrigley Field are a bit insensitive. The headbands they're ...

Cubs Fans Show Off Inaccurate Love Of Fukudome

Deadspin found this 4/20/2008 on www.sportsbybrooks.com

What I meant to say was, “I need two tickets to Pittsburgh.” What I actually said was … oh, sorry. In a related story, Cubs fans are crazy about their man Kosuke Fukudome . They just don’t really know how to express it very ...

Fukudome Flattered That Cubs Fans Want Him to House The Sandwich Of Investing Sockdrawer [Lost In Translation]

The Hardball Times found this 4/21/2008 on deadspin.com

Kosuke Fukudome sure has been a nice investment for the Chicago Cubs, hasn't it? And the cultural movement has swept up the north side of Chicago. The transition from Japan to America has been almost seamless (.317 average, .442 on-base percentage) ...

THT Live:Not Quite Right

The Hardball Times found this 4/21/2008 on www.hardballtimes.com

Kosuke Fukudome has been an immediate big splash in Chicago, but some fans should really spend a little extra time to make sure their sign in Japanese really says what they think it says.

Cubs Management Was Shocked - Shocked! - To Discover The Sale Of Offensive T-Shirts Outside Wrigley

Posted 4/19/2008 on Awful Announcing

(posted by One More Dying Quail) Yesterday, PostmanE of We Are The Postmen fame pointed to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times that shined a light on offensive Kosuke Fukudome shirts being sold outside Wrigley Field . Today, the team issued a swift response - buh-bye, T-shirt. The Cubs halted the production and sale of a Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt hours after a report by a Chicago newspaper ...

Cubs fans love their Asian sterotypes

Posted 4/18/2008 on on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture For Men]

Maybe the Chicago Cubs brass did know what they were doing when they created an offensive advertising campaign touting their newest signing Kosuke Fukudome back in the spring. It seems that the campaign turns out to have been targeted perfectly to the racist fans who frequent Clark & Addison. On the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing

Lack Of Offical Licensing Is The Least Of This Shirt’s Problems

Posted 4/18/2008 on Can't Stop The Bleeding

“There’s a little piece of Harry Caray’s bigoted soul inside all of us” sighs Hot Shit College Student, who forwarded the following item from the Chicago Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmyer : A Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt with a racist image is the hottest-selling item at a souvenir stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across Addison Street from the ...

Debating Race And Offensiveness, Chicago Style [Oh, Me So Horry]

Posted 4/21/2008 on Deadspin

Over the weekend, much commotion was made about the various Fukudome T-shirts and bandanas that were being sold at Wrigley Field. The one item that's caused the most controversy is the "Horry Kow!" T-shirt that is apparently now banned from being sold by vendors , which featured a slant-eyed Cubbie, decked out in Harry Carey glasses, with Fukudome's last name and number on the back. In a ...

Fukudome doing well, feelings hurt

Posted 4/22/2008 on Siberian Baseball

Despite the controversy over the "Horry Kow" racist trash / t-shirt , Kosuke Fukudome doesn't appear to be having many problems adjusting to the major leagues. It can't hurt that Fukudome is already garnering the lion's share of cheers at Wrigley, including chants and general screaming, but thankfully, no Thundersticks yet. Damn, I went and jinxed it. As of Tuesday morning, he's batting .328 ...

Cubs Hits Of The Week (For the Week of 4/14 through 4/20)

Posted 4/21/2008 on The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -

The five hits that did the most to enhance the Cubs' chance of winning during the past week of Dusty-dissing and Pirate punishment, as measured by FanGraphs' Win Probability Added (WPA): #5 Big Hit: Friday, v. Pittsburgh, 4th inning-- With the Cubs trailing 1-0, Kosuke Fukudome rips a leadoff triple against Ian Snell. (Fukudome would score moments later on a Mark DeRosa single). WPA ...

Transitory Translations

Posted 4/21/2008 on Bugs & Cranks

When the Cubs signed outfielder Kosuke Fukudome this offseason, there were bound to be some difficulties in communication. Sure, they guys on the field would be okay — they’re pros after all — but you knew the fans ( and the marketing department ) were going to find a way to butcher basic Japanese. True enough, Fukudome says that pretty much every sign that he’s seen ...

One homer, 15 balls returned: A new trend at Wrigley? (RR)

Posted 4/17/2008 on BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

The rotting corpse of Frank Crosetti just wet himself… Everyone was a little surprised at the barrage of baseballs being tossed back onto the field Wednesday night after Adam Dunn’s home run onto Sheffield Avenue. “I didn’t think that many people hit a home run today,” said right-fielder Kosuke Fukudome, who was fortunate not to get beaned by one, as Jacque Jones nearly was by a thrown ball ...

An NL MVP Dark Horse & An AL CY Young Contender No Longer

Posted 4/17/2008 on FakeTeams

The Cubs placed their $136MM man, LF Alphonso Soriano, on the DL yesterday. What better time for manager Lou Piniela to make the best of this bad turn by setting a line-up to maximize the run production of his 3rd and 4th batters. To do so, Japanese import Kosuke Fukudome would move into the two-hole with Ryan Theriot leading-off. This would place two .350+ OBP hitters in ...

Z Hit Parade

Posted 4/17/2008 on ChicagoCubsOnline.com

Game Fourteen - Cubs 12 Reds 3 WP - Carlos Zambrano (2-1) LP - Josh Fogg (1-2) Save - None Lou Piniella's crew improved to a season-high four games over .500 with a decisive win on Wednesday night against the Reds. The Cubs offense exploded for 12 runs, another season-high, on 13 hits with only one home run. Kosuke Fukudome hit the first of 5 doubles on the night in the 1st inning that ...

Kosuke Fukudome's First MLB At-Bat Goes Well

Posted 4/13/2008 on The Sporting Blog

By Chris Mottram After a rain delay, the Cubs' great Japanese hope, Kosuke Fukudome, got his first MLB ups in the second inning. He only needed to see one pitch: Brent Musburger was so dead set on telling us how similar the one Japanese guy is to the other Japanese guy that he basically missed the entire play, until after the ball hit the wall. But hey, we all just absolutely ...

Shocking: Ramirez on pace to double walk total from 2007

Posted 4/22/2008 on OUT OF RIGHT FIELD

19 games into the season, the Cubs are showing an encouraging trend that the Trib is calling the Fukudome Effect , where the Cubs are leading the league in pitches seen per at-bat and also OBP. One of the aspects of the Boston Red Sox's approach last season that was easy to notice during the playoffs was their ability to swing at strikes and to have the discipline to take the pitches out of ...

No complaints about new outfielders

Posted 4/22/2008 on Sox Machine: Chicago White Sox blog

With the Sox off, I watched a lot of the Cubs-Mets game, mainly to keep tabs on Kosuke Fukudome. He didn't disappoint, hitting a key single in a big eighth inning in a 10-pitch at-bat, which was preceded by a nine-pitch single in his previous at-bat....( read more )

Prospects on the Rise...

Posted 4/21/2008 on Scouting Book

These prospects have moved up in our composite rankings recently: Evan Longoria (#6)... Kosuke Fukudome (#15)... J.R. Towles (#22)... Geovany Soto (#29)... Blake Dewitt (#98)... Edinson Volquez (#103)... Danny Richar (#155)... Mitchell Boggs (#195)... Jordan Zimmerman (#233)... See our detailed prospect rankings for more info. (4/21/2008)

04/20/08: Cubs win 13-6 over Pirates, move into 1st Place….

Posted 4/21/2008 on CubsHub

The Cubs once again clicked offensively Sunday, powering their way to a 13-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates & earning a 3-game sweep at Wrigley Field. Even with Kosuke Fukudome (cyst above right eye) being a late scratch from today’s game, Chicago was still able to put on a great hitting display for the 2nd straight day.

Links The Man Wants You To See

Posted 4/20/2008 on Rumors and Rants

Cubs fans love Kosuke Fukudome . And then they take it a little too far - Chicago Sun Times and Fanhouse Stephen A. Smith pissed Chris Bosh off but good - Toronto Star Jimmy Clausen has the worst hair ever - Busted Coverage Whenever Sam the Eagle shows up on television, I link it - The Sports Hernia LaDainian Tomlinson is going to play in the preseason? Crazy - San Diego Union Tribune ...

Game 18 Thread / Pirates @ Cubs (3 of 3)

Posted 4/20/2008 on The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -

Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview SP *Zach Duke SP Ryan Dempster 0-0, 2.89, 7 K, 4 BB 2-0, 2.37, 13 K, 9 BB CF *Nate McLouth CF Reed Johnson 2B Freddy Sanchez SS Ryan Theriot ...

Prospects on the Rise...

Posted 4/20/2008 on Scouting Book

Prospects on the Rise...

Posted 4/19/2008 on Scouting Book

With Racist Apparel, Cubs Fans Actually Are Obnoxious

Posted 4/18/2008 on The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.

So Marty Brennaman goes all scorched Earth on Cubs fans, and I go all scorched Earth on Marty Brennaman . I thought it was just Brennaman that deserved it, but today the Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmeyer, who does a great job covering the Cubs, brings up something that my friends and I have been too-quietly discussing the whole season : racist “Japanese” merchandise at ...