They absolutely went through with this in the worst possible ways.
25 comments
It’s not great I’ll tell ya that. Certainly tells you exactly where the organization stands, and with lack of pride night previously being an oversight at minimum, now we know it’s entirely on purpose.
What an embarrassment of an organization. Almost makes me wanna bail on this team… this is why you don’t go political and alienate your fan base…
At least if we shit the bed and lose our dumb ass owner will get what he deserves.
This has been really bothering me to the point that I didn’t buy any theme night tickets the day they went on sale like I’ve done the last few years, and I wasn’t even wanting to renew my Victory+ (it auto billed so too late on that front). Love baseball, love the Rangers players, but can’t stand that statue and consequently really put off from this season and not at all excited like normal for opening day or even to watch the aired games from AZ.
Owner is 84, hopeful things change
Legit I think I am done with this team. I have been a rangers fan all my life. I remember going to Nolan’s last home game at the old park as a kid, going to the 95asg at the new park, countless games over the years but I just no longer feel like this team cares about the fans. it’s wild that my two favorite sports teams growing up have completely turned me off on their product. Solely from an ownership and management standpoint too. I’m just apathetic on them now.
It’s just left a bad aura for me. It’s a by product of our society to be purposefully obtuse when someone rightfully has issues with racism. Every year they wear 42 in honor of the people who fought for integration while having a statue of a man who upheld it.
definitely giving them as little money as possible until it’s removed
Cursing the season before it begins…
By keeping people focused on fighting each other, the wealthy elite can continue to “run off with all the money” – George Carlin
I’m not a right winger but I grew up in Texas and I coexisted with many just fine.
I always saw being a ranger fan the same way, this my team, the owners are def right wingers but whatever man as long as it doesn’t spill over into the experience.
The lack of pride night not was not surprising but it was super weird that the Rangers were the only ones. It made me suspect that they must be petty ass dicks to not have one.
I’m sure there are several owners that aren’t die hard PRIDE night guys but at least they’re not petty enough to not have it.
So now with this statue? They definitely are some petty ass folks.
Acting like it’s normal to put that statue up and people are just gonna be cool about it?
This org is wild for this one.
One Riot One Racist, fuck Ray Davis in hell
Great article. Fuck ownership for allowing this to happen. Ignorance is not an excuse for promoting racism
Crazy amount of downvotes going on in this thread. It also got reported.
I can’t possibly imagine the type of person who would do such a thing. No clue at all.
Amazing how DFW ended up with this trio of dogshit sports owners
Shame !
They’re offering SRO season passes for $300 and now they’re offering concession stand credits with ticket purchase. Ticket sales must be down – maybe they will seriously look at why.
What do you expect from the team that employs Mike Bacsik? The message sent is racism is okay. Screw this mindset. Chris Young as “president” needs to be held accountable.
Fuck Ray Davis
Yall do realize that majority of the fanbase is okay with this right? Yall are preaching to the choir on here. But hey, literally all Reddit does lol
It’s easier to be out while living in Arizona, but I’m out. 3 seasons ago was the best of my nearly 40 years alive, honestly never thought it would happen. Now I want nothing to do with this.
Ray Davis won’t stop my fandom but shame on him
I love the Rangers, love the team, but hate the politics of the organization, from their sponsors (Energy Transfer, Lockheed Martin) to the refusal to participate in Pride Night, to this stupid statue.
I’m still a die hard fan of the team, but I’m more and more becoming more a fan of individual players, and even taking interest in other teams. If I end up moving out of Texas I may end up adopting another team.
Still thinking of buying a ballpark pass, but don’t feel great about it. I would’ve already done it if it weren’t for this statue.
My dad and I had a discussion around this statue, he made it seem like it was a generic statue from much earlier in US history and people were mad about it despite the fact “a lot of people owned slaves” still during that time. When he told me I agreed that this particular statue being removed wasn’t justified unlike the statue of General Lee being removed
Fast forward to today and boy did he have everything wrong. This occurred in the 1950s, in fucking Mansfield right down the road from me and the statue was based on that Texas Ranger during that time period? Nah fuck that, fuck the Rangers organization and fuck anyone who supports that statue
My issue is not with the story behind the “One Riot, One Ranger” statue. I understand the historical moment it’s meant to represent and the idea of honoring the Texas Rangers stepping in to prevent violence. That part isn’t the problem.
The problem is that this statue was created during the Civil Rights era and used Jay Banks as the model.
Jay Banks was not some neutral figure. He was actively involved in enforcing segregation in Texas schools, even after the Supreme Court ruled against it in Brown v. Board of Education. He went out of his way to resist integration and uphold discriminatory policies. That’s not debatable, that’s documented history.
So when people say “it’s just a statue about law and order,” that ignores a huge part of what it actually represents. You can’t separate the image from the person it was modeled after, especially when that person stood on the wrong side of one of the most important civil rights issues in American history.
If this were just about the legend, they could have chosen literally anyone else as the model. They didn’t. They chose someone who actively worked against civil rights.
That’s why I can’t support this team while that statue is still up. It’s not about being overly sensitive or rewriting history. It’s about not celebrating or normalizing a figure tied to enforcing segregation.
If the organization wants to honor the history of the Rangers, there are plenty of ways to do it without tying that legacy to someone like that. Until then, I’m not supporting this team.
25 comments
It’s not great I’ll tell ya that. Certainly tells you exactly where the organization stands, and with lack of pride night previously being an oversight at minimum, now we know it’s entirely on purpose.
What an embarrassment of an organization. Almost makes me wanna bail on this team… this is why you don’t go political and alienate your fan base…
At least if we shit the bed and lose our dumb ass owner will get what he deserves.
This has been really bothering me to the point that I didn’t buy any theme night tickets the day they went on sale like I’ve done the last few years, and I wasn’t even wanting to renew my Victory+ (it auto billed so too late on that front). Love baseball, love the Rangers players, but can’t stand that statue and consequently really put off from this season and not at all excited like normal for opening day or even to watch the aired games from AZ.
Owner is 84, hopeful things change
Legit I think I am done with this team. I have been a rangers fan all my life. I remember going to Nolan’s last home game at the old park as a kid, going to the 95asg at the new park, countless games over the years but I just no longer feel like this team cares about the fans. it’s wild that my two favorite sports teams growing up have completely turned me off on their product. Solely from an ownership and management standpoint too. I’m just apathetic on them now.
It’s just left a bad aura for me. It’s a by product of our society to be purposefully obtuse when someone rightfully has issues with racism. Every year they wear 42 in honor of the people who fought for integration while having a statue of a man who upheld it.
definitely giving them as little money as possible until it’s removed
Cursing the season before it begins…
By keeping people focused on fighting each other, the wealthy elite can continue to “run off with all the money” – George Carlin
I’m not a right winger but I grew up in Texas and I coexisted with many just fine.
I always saw being a ranger fan the same way, this my team, the owners are def right wingers but whatever man as long as it doesn’t spill over into the experience.
The lack of pride night not was not surprising but it was super weird that the Rangers were the only ones. It made me suspect that they must be petty ass dicks to not have one.
I’m sure there are several owners that aren’t die hard PRIDE night guys but at least they’re not petty enough to not have it.
So now with this statue? They definitely are some petty ass folks.
Acting like it’s normal to put that statue up and people are just gonna be cool about it?
This org is wild for this one.
One Riot One Racist, fuck Ray Davis in hell
Great article. Fuck ownership for allowing this to happen. Ignorance is not an excuse for promoting racism
Crazy amount of downvotes going on in this thread. It also got reported.
I can’t possibly imagine the type of person who would do such a thing. No clue at all.
Amazing how DFW ended up with this trio of dogshit sports owners
Shame !
They’re offering SRO season passes for $300 and now they’re offering concession stand credits with ticket purchase. Ticket sales must be down – maybe they will seriously look at why.
What do you expect from the team that employs Mike Bacsik? The message sent is racism is okay. Screw this mindset. Chris Young as “president” needs to be held accountable.
Fuck Ray Davis
Yall do realize that majority of the fanbase is okay with this right? Yall are preaching to the choir on here. But hey, literally all Reddit does lol
It’s easier to be out while living in Arizona, but I’m out. 3 seasons ago was the best of my nearly 40 years alive, honestly never thought it would happen. Now I want nothing to do with this.
Ray Davis won’t stop my fandom but shame on him
I love the Rangers, love the team, but hate the politics of the organization, from their sponsors (Energy Transfer, Lockheed Martin) to the refusal to participate in Pride Night, to this stupid statue.
I’m still a die hard fan of the team, but I’m more and more becoming more a fan of individual players, and even taking interest in other teams. If I end up moving out of Texas I may end up adopting another team.
Still thinking of buying a ballpark pass, but don’t feel great about it. I would’ve already done it if it weren’t for this statue.
My dad and I had a discussion around this statue, he made it seem like it was a generic statue from much earlier in US history and people were mad about it despite the fact “a lot of people owned slaves” still during that time. When he told me I agreed that this particular statue being removed wasn’t justified unlike the statue of General Lee being removed
Fast forward to today and boy did he have everything wrong. This occurred in the 1950s, in fucking Mansfield right down the road from me and the statue was based on that Texas Ranger during that time period? Nah fuck that, fuck the Rangers organization and fuck anyone who supports that statue
My issue is not with the story behind the “One Riot, One Ranger” statue. I understand the historical moment it’s meant to represent and the idea of honoring the Texas Rangers stepping in to prevent violence. That part isn’t the problem.
The problem is that this statue was created during the Civil Rights era and used Jay Banks as the model.
Jay Banks was not some neutral figure. He was actively involved in enforcing segregation in Texas schools, even after the Supreme Court ruled against it in Brown v. Board of Education. He went out of his way to resist integration and uphold discriminatory policies. That’s not debatable, that’s documented history.
So when people say “it’s just a statue about law and order,” that ignores a huge part of what it actually represents. You can’t separate the image from the person it was modeled after, especially when that person stood on the wrong side of one of the most important civil rights issues in American history.
If this were just about the legend, they could have chosen literally anyone else as the model. They didn’t. They chose someone who actively worked against civil rights.
That’s why I can’t support this team while that statue is still up. It’s not about being overly sensitive or rewriting history. It’s about not celebrating or normalizing a figure tied to enforcing segregation.
If the organization wants to honor the history of the Rangers, there are plenty of ways to do it without tying that legacy to someone like that. Until then, I’m not supporting this team.
Can’t wait to spit on it.