[Saint Paul, MN baseball] Saints to change name for a game on atheist night

Associated Press ^ | Jul 13, 2012, 5:12 PM EDT | unattributed

[Hunton Peck]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The St. Paul Saints plan to change their name for a game sponsored by atheist groups.

The American Association minor league club will call itself the "Mr. Paul Aints" when they host the Amarillo Sox on Aug. 10.

The Minnesota Atheists and American Atheists suggested the promotion to tie in with a regional atheist conference in town that weekend. The game's billing...

[DaveA37]

Well, I certainly hope it rains out.

A boycot of all the games they play might get the message across to the owner. Perhaps then he will get his head out of his behind. Like many of you, I am really getting tired of all this politically correct crap.

[DaveA37]

In order to get their attention, yo have to hit them in the pocket book. That is the ONLY thing the owners understand.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I worked in St. Paul for 16 years.
My office was near W. 7th and Otto.

[al_c]

“Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.”

[gzzimlich]

As a “skeptical” type and non-theist myself I’ve always been thoroughly embarrassed by fundamentalist atheists. Boorish attempts to remove crosses from war memorials, lawsuits over “In God We Trust”.. pathetic.

I recognise, for example, that the cross has become a universally recognised (in the West anyway) symbol of self-sacrifice and is an entirely appropriate symbol to place

[gzzimlich]

(oops, connection got cut off)

..place on a war memorial.

If these people spent half the time engaged in productive discussion with others, people would be far less inclined to view atheists as the sneering, condescending twits that many of the worst examples are.

[Ackackadack]

Yes, that Bill Murray is indeed one of the owners, but as far as I can tell is pretty much of the silent owner type. The guy I was referring to is Mike Veeck, one of the brainchildren behind the notorious "disco sucks" event at Comiskey Park back in the day.

I use the word "notorious" in the dictionary sense. He may very well have done us all a favor back then.

[Ackackadack]

I think the Saints were already on thin ice because of their jumping on the new stadium bandwagon at the same time the Vikings were pushing for theirs. The Vikings stadium proposal was controversial enough as it is.

For the Saints to attempt to place themselves as just as deserving of a new taxpayer-funded stadium was in short, horrible timing on their part, with the economy being what it is. (Not that there is any good time to seek taxpayer funding of a stadium for a privately-owned team, as far as I'm concerned.)

The moral of the story is, they've pissed off enough fans already by sticking their nose in the government trough for new infrastructure. The stadium they already have will never win any "great stadium" accolades, but it's fine as is. The fans don't seem to mind it one bit. What effect this latest event will have though, time will tell.