Posted on 07/26/2021 7:41:49 PM PDT by TBP
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.
I think I heard the Guardian is a bridge in Cleveland. Know about that??
I can remember my brother had a pennant from when the Indians won the series. That was back in the early 40’s. Everyone was so proud of them.
1948. They’re currently the team with the longest World Championship drought.
“The rain Indain stays on the Cleveland plains!”
I have a tribal membership card. The name Versions bothered me. But, neither Indians or Braves do.
Being part Indian I feel the same way They are honoring the great warriors who lived in America before it was America.
Octagonal snowflakes? There’s no such thing! Just like the Cleveland Indians now.
[[The owners will now call the team the Cleveland Guardians, ]]
They never even bothered to see if guardians everywhere were a-ok with the team culturally appropriating their title
not to mention that there is already a roller derby team called the Cleveland Guardians.
http://www.clevelandguardians.com/
I’d have renamed the team:
The Cleveland Scalpers.
Pays tribute to the old culture of native Americans and the new culture of making a quick buck (Oops, can I say that???) on game day
i hope they sue for name infringement
I’m Cherokee. But I’m NOT “on the role”, therefore NOT a member of the tribe. Because of the “Dawes Act”. Anyway... This reminds me of a trick my sister pulled many years ago... She was working at some place, I think it was called “venture”. She stole a record, YEAH back in the days when the had records(before 8-track, cassette, CD, DVD...) from the store she worked for, came home and told me that she did it for me. It was a lie of course, I never gave a crap about that record. She wanted the record, stole it and made up an excuse for doing so. 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!
Cleveland Guardians, the one and only thing they are guarding is their paycheck.
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!
Agarn, is that you? :)
The Trail of Tears is still being trod.
Just wait 'til The Crossroads of America gets REALLY woke.
We have a state, and capitol and a baseball team: all about INDIANS!!
Our extremely woke Indianpolis Star 'newspaper' cannot even bring itself to PRINT the name of the ball team!
Hail to the Football Team!
Hail victory!
Players on the field
Fight to be PC!
Unfortunately, they’ll probably get paid off.
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