Posted on 07/23/2021 8:34:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
July 23 (UPI) -- The Cleveland Indians will rebrand as the Cleveland Guardians in 2022, the team announced Friday on social media.
The franchise said last summer that it would start conversations with local community members and Native American groups about a potential name change.
In June, the Indians announced they formed a list of nearly 1,100 potential replacement nicknames and that they were in the process of making a selection.
Friday's announcement featured several new logos, which accompanied the new name. Actor Tom Hanks narrated a video to announce the changes. The Black Keys, a band from Akron, Ohio, supplied music for the announcement.
"We remember those moments as we move forward with change," Hanks said. "You see, there has always been Cleveland, the best part of our name. Now it's time to unite as one family, one community, to build the next era for this team, this city.
"To keep watch and guard what makes this game the greatest, to come together and welcome all who want to join us."
Cleveland's MLB franchise started in 1901 as the Cleveland Blues. The team became the Cleveland Bronchos in 1902 and was known as the Cleveland Naps from 1903 through 1914. They took the Indians nickname in 1915.
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Crowd Shrinkage happens.
May their stadiums become spider webs and dust bowls.
“This is a great day, one that will surely gain attention as a national holiday! Native Americans will no longer be offended and oppressed!!”
Who?
I think they were also called the Spiders at one point..
Ah.. same as displaying a "Trump Won" banner.
I liked the Cleveland Spiders, but I heard that focus groups showed that women hated that name.
Believable. Nothing creeps out women like spiders. Not even creepy men.
I saw the promo with Tom Hanks and it seemed completely fake, phony, fugazi, manipulative.
Starting with lifelong Californian Tom Hanks as the voice of Cleveland.
So he spent a year or two there back in the Seventies.
He's not exactly the authentic voice of the city.
They could have gotten Drew Carey.
Will the hard core fans go along with this nonsense?
To keep watch and guard this game? Certainly not against wokeness.
More like a WNBA team.
We knew this had to happen. I don’t care. No longer interested in baseball.
That is the name, that is a terrible name. Picking a name out of hat would have been better. We going to have to change the name in those Major League Movies I love to watch?
That would have been better
So the abbreviated name will be the “Guards”. Seeing as how blacks make up a disproportionate share of the prison population I think that has overtones of blatant racism.
They should just cut to the chase and call themselves the Cleveland Turdians.
Hmmm...
Haven’t followed baseball since the RedSox roster included:
Doerr
Pesky
Batts
Williams
Dimaggio
Mele
Tebbetts
Dobson
Kramer
Deal
Stephens
Stobbs
Parnell
McDermott
Johnson
Etc...
Thank goodness there are liberal white college graduates to be offended on behalf of the indigenous population.
MLB is pretty much dead.
Pretty soon, no one will even know who or what Indians are. They are being literally erased from all public and commercial things.
But we'll take their land.......Some things never change.
RE: Pretty soon, no one will even know who or what Indians are.
Of course not. There are 1.3 billion of them even as we speak. In 5 years, there will probably be more Indians than Chinese.
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