Maybe this weekend the Tigers will being the process of returning the Indians to baseball obscurity, and then no one will care about Chief Wahoo. One can only hope. But I know better than to think it would go that way. People who want to be offended go looking for offense, and they've already found it in Chief Wahoo. They're not going to give up the quest no matter how irrelevant the offending team becomes, and sadly Rob Manfred appears to be joining Roger Goodell and Adam Silver as major sports commissioners determined to pander to the please-offend-me crowd.
The result? Although the Indians appear to be resisting the complete elimination of their smiling, wild-eyed icon, the pressure from on high may become unbearable:
