I first saw this cartoon in Newsweek. The point of the cartoon has be perplexed.

Luckovich cartoon

Can anyone figure out why this should make sense? Am I totally idiotic?

It plays off of the whole "Native Americans being offended by team names controversy". It is implying that the only reason Native Americans would be offended by the name Braves is because they never do well in the playoffs.

No offense, guy, but what don't you get?

Well, I'm offended by the Braves and I'm 100% Anglo-Saxon stock. So, I feel their pain.

Things that confuse me:

1) If anyone is named after someone it is the Braves that are named after Native Americans, not the other way around.

2) If the cartoonist is trying to make the point that the Braves are offensive to Native Americans, then the stereotype portrayed in the cartoon is equally offensive.

Hey O-man,

Lighten up! It's just a joke about how badly Atlanta's baseball team (jeez, now you've got me avoiding the word "Braves" ) does in the post season. That's all.

Funny. But I see orsino4's point. Instead of saying, "How'd you like being named after a team..." it should say, "How'd you like having a team named after you..."

Give orsino4 a break guys; even though most of us would skim right over that and pay no mind to the backwards phrasing, I know plenty of other people who would read it more literally like orsino, and pay no mind to the humor about the Braves choking in the postseason.

Thanks guys. I was very aware that I could be acting on the extremely stupid side. But I think everyone sometimes gets into that missing the obvious state of mind.

The phrasing was the thing that got me. I kept trying to manipulate my interpretation to make it fit... which didn't work. Then I thought about racial stereotypes which didn't make sense either. I completely ignored the postseason. But now I get the point made. And it is kind of funny.