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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You’re thinking of the Wogs.
Agree with you...plant is still open but they are making 4 and 6 cyls these days.
Will the raccoon be their new mascot?
Computer game
Gone.
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Tom Hanks is a big Cleveland sports fan. He spent a few years in Cleveland in the late seventies as a stock member of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival (now Great Lakes Theater). It was were he first became an paid actor & for many years after making it big he would return to act in many of the productions.
He’s been instrumental in their campaigns to raise money.
He was particularly a big Indians fan. Now Guardians, I guess.
The Rockers are a failed WNBA team in Cleveland. No one wants to relive that nonsense.
Guardians/Shmardians...who cares? It's looser-ball with dazzling regularity.
Cleveland Steamers
my husband thinks most native Clevelanders would not want the gig. Tom Hanks is full of shit.
The “Mistake on the Lake” strikes again, time to dig out my old Alex Bevan records.
how
Next target is “Indiana!” How in the hell does a state have the nerve to be called by that name?
Then, we MUST start erasing ALL “native american” names of rivers, states, mountains, etc. (count them yourselves)
We MUST ERASE ALL memory of “native americans.”
There must be no reference to those people or anything about their even having existed!
Next, on the agenda, will be changing the name of the country called, “India!”
It was the mistake of Christopher Columbus, who thought he had discovered India, calling the “native americans,” “INDIANS!” Columbus should be “erased.” All things, named after Columbus, should be be changed. Columbia, Columbus, rivers and cities, MUST be renamed!
Also, the “DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA?” Give me a break!
This is WAR and, dammit, I am all in on this war!
“GUARDIANS?” SHEESH! End Manfred’s stint as “Commish!”
What the hell is wrong with Indians? Sounds like a proud name. Guardians sounds too defensive? Not offensive enough. Like Cleveland’security guards’. Or Cleveland ‘Doorbell Cameras’ Or Cleveland ’Speed Bumps’
Two down: Redskins, Indians and the CFL Edmonton Eskimos (Now called Elks)
On the chopping block: Braves Blackhawks and Chiefs
There are no guardians in baseball
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
The Betas
The Woke
The Pajama Boys
The Politically Correct
The Emasculators
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