Three Indians fans showed up to wild-card game wearing redface

Today in people are stupid: three Indians supporters, captured on Wednesday night's broadcast by TBS, and screencapped by For The Win's Ted Berg, thought it would be a great idea to show up to Progressive Field for the American League wild-card showdown wearing redface.

Turns out: not a good idea. The opposite, actually. 

Berg writes:

"Chief Wahoo’s more of a caricature, which kind of makes it even worse. It’s easy to forget that the red-faced cartoon on the Indians cap aims to represent a living, breathing group of human beings, at least until living, breathing human beings dress up like the cartoon.

"And if you want to excuse the fans for simply showing their enthusiasm for their favorite club by dressing up as its mascot, it becomes very difficult to defend the mascot when you see the end result."

Hardball Talk's Craig Calcaterra shared Berg's sentiment:

"If they decided not to go the ad hominem route they’d probably offer something like, 'hey, he’s on the caps. So obviously it’s about team spirit, not racism. It’s just a cartoon character, so it’s not offensive.'

"But of course it is offensive. And disgraceful. And as long as the Cleveland Indians continue to use Chief Wahoo as their mascot and primary logo, idiots like these three will believe that it is socially acceptable to do with Indians that which we would never tolerate if it was done with other races. They will be given the official cover to make specious arguments excusing their racist acts."

Let's face facts: those three smart guys -- and the fan who threw his dip spit at David DeJesus -- are probably why the Indians lost Wednesday night. 

In all seriousness: people can't be trusted, because, for the most part, people aren't very bright. And so, at the end of the day, it's up to professional sports franchises like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians to not even give them an option.