Cleveland Guardians roller derby team sues baseball club over name change

The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | 10/27/2021 | John Caniglia

[Jim from C-Town]

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Guardians roller derby team sued the city’s Major League Baseball club Wednesday in a legal fight over its name and trademark.

[Jim from C-Town]

I thought they should have called the team the Cleveland Cyclones. Then the fans could call themselves the clones.

As a Clevelander, I find this to be too funny!

I hate that they went woke. Just shows that wealth is often wasted on the stupid & cowardly.

[TBP]

Stick with Indians.

[brownsfan]

The owner, Dolan, is a woke cheapskate. More than likely, he figured he’d cash in on selling new gear. I hope he loses his arse, and I hope his son gets destroyed in the election.

[TBP]

https://www.clevelandguardians.com/

[TBP]

He also likely figured that he’d save money by keeping half the name (”dians.”)

[Verginius Rufus]

I’ve never lived in Cleveland but I’ve heard it referred to as “the mistake by the lake.” So they could call the team the Cleveland Mistakes.

[TBP]

Taking away the Indians name is racist and offensive. Vast, large majorities of “Native Americans” not only say they’re not offended by “Native American” team names, but are proud of them, but #woke whitefolk (progressives) decided that they, and not the group in question, get to decide what offends the group in question, rather than the members of that group. That is racist.

I guess the affected minority not being offended interferes with the #progressives #VirtueSignalling and their superiority complex. #Totalitarians don’t like it when you stand up to them, whether they’re Cubans, Haitians, Chinese, or woke white progressives.

And then, they cheaped out and kept half the names (”dians.”)

The Guardians name honors four statues at the end of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, called the Guardians of Traffic. The bridge lets out just short of Progressive Field. But those statues are modelled on statues at the palaces of Assyrian kings, who were SLAVEHOLDERS. Typical of progressives to honor slaveholders. Birds of a feather.

Sadly, the Democrats’ view of minorities hasn’t changed ONE IOTA since the day the party was founded almost 200 years ago. All that has changed is the adoption of new tactics forced on them by Republicans taking their “property” from them — and the color of the hoods. As Candace Owens says, “Liberals believe they own black people — still.” Native Americans too, apparently.

Typical.

[TBP]

That was the nickname of old Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

[trad_anglican]

Burn on, big river, burn on.

[EEGator]

Cleveland Mistakes By The Lake...

[KC_Lion]

I still prefers the “Cleveland Engines”

[Vigilanteman]

I think they should rename themselves the "Nappies."

It has a dual meaning:

1. Retro to when Nap Lajoie was the star player and they called themselves the Naps.
   
2. Modern because a nappie diaper perfectly personifies the PC crowd.

[Bobalu]

There is nothing so racist as a woke, white, suburban female...

[TBP]

A take on the Cleveland name controversy from an actual Indian, not a white person who decided what offended Indians without asking them. Polls show substantial majorities of "Native Americans" agree with her, and virtually every Indian I know shares a similar view.

From Facebook

It’s a very sad day for Cleveland. Today we lay to rest the Cleveland Indians. The owners will now call the team the Cleveland Guardians, (should be the Cleveland Sell Outs.) Even though we saw it coming, and we should have been prepared, it still seems as if we’re losing a member of our family. For me the tribe represented something that I was able to identify with. Being Choctaw, it was a team who represented me, something to be proud of. But someone at the offices in Cleveland took the bait and decided it was now shameful to be Indian and I should be ashamed of who I am. I was born and raised in Cleveland area, spent 35 years there... the Cleveland Indians were the tribe that raised me. It was great to go to ball games and see others proud of a team that represented who I was as well. So many bonding friendships were made over Tribe games. Even when I moved from Ohio I continued to be a Tribe fan. Going to see them in Arlington when they played the Rangers. It was awesome seeing the number of people here who were Tribe fans when I moved to southeastern Oklahoma 15 years ago. (As well as Redskin, Chiefs and Braves fans.) These were teams who represented us. That is all a thing of the past now. A new generation has decided they are hurt and offended... sometimes it seems by the very light of day. I wish the City of Cleveland all the best with this decision to politicize baseball and remove a source of pride for so many. But since I have no tie to this new team or the statues on the bridge it represents, to me it’s just another team now. Cleveland has taken away the fun and excitement baseball was meant to be. RIP My Tribe. 😞 Well remember the good times.

[pepsi_junkie]

I hope the MLB franchise that used to have a cool name and mascot loses bigly and has to become the “Cleveland Baseball Team” like Washington Football Team did because they bent the knee to the Twitter mob.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is funny, that somewhere attorneys researching the name change, never discovered that this name was already in use by another organization?

Reminds me of the singers , Lady Antebellum, who decided the word antebellum was offensive, decide to rebrand as Lady A, only to learn that another singer went by that name.

Don’t attorneys research this stuff before changing the name of ha n organization?

[TBP]

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/07/25/ohio-sheriff-with-cherokee-wife-says-indians-name-change-is-disgusting/

Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski today is speaking out against the Cleveland Indians changing their team name to the “Guardians” after the 2021 season. Zuchowski, whose wife is part Cherokee and Blackfoot says the Indians name does not offend American Indians.

“I felt compelled to make a statement on behalf of the silent majority,” Sheriff Zuchowski said. “For the past few days, the release has been weighing heavy on my mind with disappointment and hopelessness. I thought back to the roots of baseball – an American family tradition. Sometimes referred to as America’s National Pastime, the game of baseball has played an active role in our nation for centuries.”

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Zuchowski said changing the name is changing history and an American staple to soothe the complaints of a few.

“When I was a child, I remember observing my grandfathers watching the Indians game on TV or listening on their AM radios. They both loved the Indians back in the day. Today, I know they are both turning over in their grave with anguish and disgust toward the recent actions,” Zuchowski said. “My wife is a descendent from the Cherokee and Blackfoot American Indian tribe. Both she and her relatives never viewed the Cleveland Indians as a biased or prejudiced team but rather their hometown baseball franchise. This is once again another attempt of trying to erase our history due to the outcry of the few that affects the many.”

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Zuchowski said he will continue to boycott professional sports as they work through their wokeness.

“I have boycotted professional sports for the past three years and if you were to ask me who the starting lineup was for the Indians, I couldn’t tell you. Some may question if I don’t care to watch or follow their progress, why should I care about their name change? The fact is that the general standpoint is not about this particular position taken by the team but rather the principle of the decision-making process,” Zuchowski said. “These unfortunate decisions are being made while continuously impacting individuals and industries across the nation. Both lawmakers and decision-makers need to begin to think about the majority of their constituents before caving to the impulsive demands being made by a small group of the public.”

[TBP]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979465/posts?page=32#32

[TBP]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979465/posts?page=32#32

“I’m Cherokee. But I’m NOT “on the role”, therefore NOT a member of the tribe. Because of the “Dawes Act”. Anyway... This recent crap about sports names are the same damned thing! These people doing these things don’t give a flying crap about us, it’s JUST an excuse to do what they want!”

[TBP]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979465/posts?page=34#34

“Naming something after something or somebody usually expresses reverence.

Pretty much anybody would love to have a team named after them!

Are New England Patriots making derogatory statement about Patriots? Are lions, tigers. cardinals or oilers supposed to be upset?

I would think, the purging of “native” symbols from US sports is really derogatory to them!

By the way the main Navaho high school in AZ has a team named, guess what?, Redskins!”

Boy, those Navajos must hate Native Americans.