Cleveland Indians Announce Ban On Face Paint And Headdresses, But Fans Have Last Laugh

Proud owner of a Cleveland Caucasians t-shirt here. I just completed an Indians survey on my concerns about covid, how many games I’d be attending this year, plus areas for extended comments.

I basically told them political correctness is their death knell. Their covid response is over the top, and that I would be attending 0 games this year. They kneel for the National Anthem, support BLM, and imply that anyone who wears Chief Wahoo is a racist.
What a lousy business model. Alienate your base, wonder why there is no interest, and then beg them to come back. Idiots.

Agreed.

As long as pro sports goes along with the cancel culture political correctness agenda I will not watch or attend or buy their products.

Let’s see how long they survive without fans.

Life-long Indians fan here. Went all the time with my dad when I was a kid. Haven't been to a game in over 20 years. Too much walking. Haven't watched a game in at least that long but have listened to just about every one of them on the radio. Hammy is one of the best, ever.

The Indians will ALWAYS be the Indians till the day I die and nothing can change that. Chief Wahoo will always be our mascot. Just because the CommieCultists have taken over the MLB it doesn't mean that they have taken over me. Anybody can pull a Chief Wahoo graphic off the InterWeb and get a tee-shirt made. Add a meme while you're at it. Shame the bastards. Call up the ticket office an ask for INDIANS tickets. When they say they don't use that word anymore tell them I won't be buying tickets anymore.

As far as the All Star kerfluffle, since voter ID's are a bad thing then let's try to practice what THEY preach and, in the words of Mayor Daily “Vote early, vote often”. I urge everybody to vote for the absolute WORST players to represent MLB !

The time for blowing smoke is over, we need to start a fire under their butts.

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