Manfred misses the mark with Braves

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“The chop has to go, the chant is deplorable and all of it is racist, even if not a slur.”

HOUSTON — “It’s important to understand that we have 30 markets around the country. They aren’t all the same. The Braves have done a phenomenal job with the Native American community.”

Those were the words of Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred Tuesday before Game 1 of the World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros. He followed up that whopper with another staggeringly misinformed deduction, a summary dismissal of the matter.

“The Native American community in that region is wholly supportive of the Braves program, including the [tomahawk] chop. For me, that’s kind of the end of the story,” Manfred continued. “In that market, we’re taking into account the Native American community.”

As a native of the nation’s capital, this is a refrain I’ve heard plenty of times before. In that case, yet another team from Boston that was moved held onto a moniker that eventually was understood to be unseemly — and the team removed it after decades.

But the case of Atlanta’s baseball team is one of a little more nuance.

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