By Steven L. Taylor
I noted from the Facebook feed from an acquaintance in Colombia that on the day that there are three World Cup matches scheduled for the same day as the second round of the Colombian presidential elections.
From FIFA I note the following: games at 6:30am, 9:00am and 1:30pm—two of which involve Latin American teams (Paraguay in the 6:30 game and Brazil at 1:30).
One has to wonder if that might affect turn-out for the election.
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By Steven L. Taylor
James Joyner notes a story I was going to blog last night: Los Suns Cinco de Mayo Jerseys.
The stated purpose of the Los Suns jerseys is allegedly twofold: 1) to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and 2) to protest the new Arizona immigration law.
James, however, notes a third reason (quite frankly, the most important reason) which I was going to point out as well: “if they happen to make a ton of money selling jerseys, that’s a consequence they’re willing to live with.”
Indeed.
The teams do this to make money—and that is really all one needs to know to understand the choice. They do it with St. Patrick’s Day jerseys as well.
While the immigration law related aspect of this does overtly inject politics into the situation, we seem to go through outrage over Spanish language jerseys at this time of year on a regular basis. For example, see my post on Michelle Malkin’s outrage on the subject from 2025: ¡El horror de los Rangers!
Indeed, as James post notes with a photo, Spanish-version jerseys are nothing new. Here’s another example: Los Spurs (whom I hope beats Los Suns tonight!).
