And in other news the Los Angeles Dodgers are being urged to drop their moniker. Originating at a time when the team’s fans were mocked for “dodging” the Brooklyn trolley cars in the area around its stadium, it is an insensitive reminder of the difficulties of its poor, urban fans in that era. To continue to use this offensive term disregards the plight of oppressed working class whites and suggests that the systemic exploitation of their labor can be frivolously dismissed in order to promote the billion dollar industry that is Major League Baseball.