Baseball Mascot Gets New Name After 'PorkChop' Is Deemed Offensive

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Two days after naming its mascot "PorkChop," the Philadelphia Phillies' new Triple-A affiliate abruptly dropped the moniker after receiving complaints from Hispanics that it was offensive.

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, whose mascot is a large, furry pig, had selected PorkChop from more than 7,300 fan submissions. The team, which begins play in 2008, announced Monday that the mascot will be named "Ferrous" instead.

General Manager Kurt Landes said he heard from several Hispanics who said PorkChop was derogatory.

"We were really unaware of any negative connotations with the word 'pork chop,"' he said. "If it offended a few, it's a few too many."

Guillermo Lopez, vice president of the Latino Leadership Alliance, said he was called "pork chop" when he worked at Bethlehem Steel decades ago.

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This is another example of people being offended because they want to be offended, not because it is offensive.

You have a pig mascot that is named "pork chop", why do these people think this had anything to do with hispanics?

 

General Manager Kurt Landes said he heard from several Hispanics who said PorkChop was derogatory.

"We were really unaware of any negative connotations with the word 'pork chop,"' he said (That's because there is none.). "If it offended a few, it's a few too many."


Ronn this explains your question. "if it offended a few, it's a few to many". It's called intimidation and coersion. The last thing a triple A baseball team needs is picking hispnaics at all the home games.

I fell like words are being hijacked by these groups to extend their manipulation on society. This kind of thing just keeps growing and growing and growing.

 

That's the sad part about this, from day to day who knows what will be considered offensive? WTF, porkchop?