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[Laurence Horn]

At 12:41 AM -0400 10/26/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Friday, June 15, 2007
>
>Out Sports: Baseball Prospectus accidentally calls Jewish Red Sox
>player "Youkike"
>
>The blog, Fire Joe Morgan, has pointed out that something is amiss
>with the Baseball Prospectus player page of Red Sox infielder Kevin
>Youkilis. The site uses the first five letters of the player's last
>name and the first two letters of his first name to create the unique
>URL for information on the player. In this case, the URL for Youkilis
>spells "Youkike."
>
>"Kike" is to a Jewish person what "faggot" is to a gay person. As
>chance would have it, Youkilis is Jewish.
>
>Baseball-reference.com has the same naming convention, but they
>obviously caught the lettering mishap. They replaced the "i" in
>Youkilis with an l, so their URL reads: youklke.
>
>http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/out_sports/
>
>-Wilson
>--
Very impressive.  I especially liked the OutSports explanation of
"kike" for the benefit of all those legions of sheltered gay gentile
baseball aficionados.

LH

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