They should have kept the name and changed their mascot.
Posted on 11/19/2021 2:31:43 PM PST by xp38
MLB’s Cleveland franchise officially changed its name to the Guardians Friday, and the new day in the organization’s history started with a bang. The Guardians opened their team store for fans to get their hands on new merchandise. As fans were shopping, the sign installed outside the team store came crashing down onto the sidewalk. The sign fell when a worker was on a ladder checking bolts.
"Well, that's an ominous sign," one person yelled.
No one was injured. Regardless, fans were lining up early to get some new swag with the Guardians logo.
"This kind of exceeds expectations. Having people show up at 6:30 [a.m.], and then we had 100 people in by 9:14 [a.m.]. You can kind of see the store looks like we’re having a game today," Cleveland’s director of merchandising Karen Fox told the Associated Press. The organization announced intentions to change its name before the start of the 2021 season and landed on the new name earlier this year. The change came under some scrutiny when a roller derby team with the same name filed a lawsuit. Team officials announced earlier this week the two sides reached an "amicable resolution" allowing both teams to use the same name.
Cleveland had been known as the Indians from 1915 to 2021. The team was originally known as the Blues in 1901, the Bronchos in 1902 and the Naps from 1903 to 1914.
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Offending Catholics is fine. Women, not so much.
LMAO!!! I was just about to post that!!
Well, if you lose 1.5 males for every female gained in your TV audience, that's a losing strategy.
Strike out. Walk. Home run. Thats the game in a nutshell. It wasnt always like this.
How about the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs?!
https://www.deviantart.com/jollyjack/art/The-Thing-They-Want-895234937
Artist: “I have made more of the thing you like!”
Audience: “Yay! Woo hoo,”
Woke critic: “I do not like the thing! You are a bad person if you do not address the fact that I do not like the thing!”
Artist: “I have made changes to the thing.”
Audience: “That’s no longer the thing we wanted.”
Artist to Woke critic: “Will you buy the thing?”
Woke critic: “I never had any real interest in the thing.”
Sounds like a Major Indoor Soccer Team name... or maybe a WNBA team.
Wow..look at all the “fans”
And what were there plants.
This is how Cleveland SHOULD have responded!
Attendance by actual fans would have skyrocketed.
A HUNDRED YEARS of baseball..
A few powers that be jump on the current “woke” bandwagon…
And there goes the club….
What? “Indians” aren’t capable of defeating their opponents???
Just plain childish and silly.
They should have kept the name and changed their mascot.
“The mistake continues”.
dunno, they might just be getting that desperate....
Just like the Washington Football Club!
They should have changed their mascot to a certain type of potato.
What about the “Burning Lakes”
What about Burning Rivers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNuT4fkjAs
I suppose anything is better than “The Mistake By the Lake”..
There’s no room for Chief Wahoo’s picture on a little sign like that. What were they thinking?
Another woke shit organization. Don’t give them a penny. By the way, Bob Feller says go to hell.
Or the Scottsdale College Artichokes...aka the Fighting Chokes.
“Guardians.” Stupidest nickname in sports.”
I hope the worthless bastards go belly up.
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