As many others have said thank you for making this post, it gives some real insight to the history and the workings of Miss Daisy. Miss Daisy has been an inspiration to myself ever since I joined FIRST back in 2008. However, since my return as a mentor in 2011, I have truly seen how amazing your team, robots, off season events, and overall mentality is with a better regard.
Every year the fact that your team comes up with a simple but successful design and truly embraces the ideals of FIRST is a tribute to the hard work that is done by all of team 341's members. Building amazing robots out of simple materials such as Bosch extruded aluminum, that accomplish the game tasks so well, only attest to the fact that teams with minimal budgets can accomplish a desired game task and help to inspire all.
I know Miss Daisy has inspired myself and Team 1403 greatly, here is just one example. At the start of this season, after the game had been unveiled, we had a strategy session to determine what task we wanted to accomplish. One of the first questions asked was what will Miss Daisy do in autonomous, seeing as how in 2011 and 2012 team 341 had one of the best autonomous in first. We immediately knew that you guys would be going for a 7 disk and made it a design goals of ours. Unfortunately we were only able to accomplish a 5 disk autonomous instead of a 7 but it just goes to show how team 341 is an inspiration to other teams throughout FIRST.
Unfortunately the haters are always gonna hate and they're is absolutely nothing that you nor anyone else in FIRST can do about that, but just remember that the next time you hear something negative, another 100 people are thinking something positive.
Edit: Stereotyping is something that will always be associated with success whether it be in the business, the academic, or the FIRST world. In the FIRST world it is amplified because of the massive High's and Low's throughout the season. My only advice is to keep on enduring so that Team 341 can keep inspiring the students, mentors, volunteers, and sponsors throughout FIRST.
JB