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Posted By: earlybird, 7/29/2021 10:49:56 AM

In announcing the Cleveland Indians will become the Cleveland Guardians, management overlooked one tiny little thing. There already is a Cleveland Guardians team. The Cleveland Guardians is a roller derby team. (Snip)From that Ballpark in the Sky, Louis Sockalexis smiles. The Deerfoot of the Diamond played outfield for 3 seasons for the Cleveland Spiders, making him the first American Indian to play in the major leagues. In 1915, the Cleveland baseball team decided to become the Indians in his honor. 106 years later, management decided to withdraw the honor.

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Surber mentions that the Roller Derby Guardians seem to have gone out of business, but their defunct website is now drawing attention. Leave it to Cleveland (I believe Surber was from there originally) to screw up.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 7/29/2021 10:55:47 AM (No. 861176)
Well, for me the choice is simple: Do I NOT watch the Indians or do I NOT watch the Guardians? Come to think of it, that's no choice at all, is it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Italiano 7/29/2021 11:05:14 AM (No. 861185)
Cleveland Gutless Woke Pussies is probably still available. Won't hurt to check.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: john56 7/29/2021 11:13:56 AM (No. 861192)
Yuk, yuk. If I were the folks who owned the Roller Derby team, I'd be holding out for big bucks for trademark infringement, and such. A number of years ago, Southwest Airlines (when Herb Kelleher ran the joint) came up with a slogan, "Just Plane Smart" or something like that. The smart folks in marketing never checked if anyone was using that slogan, but some small aircraft parts maker had been using it for years. Ended up that Herb and the owner had an arm wrestling competition, with all the pomp, circumstance and foolishness Herb was known for, with the winnder getting the slogan. Herb lost the match, probably partly due to his training regimine of cigarettes and Wild Turkey. But he made a deal on the side, gave a donation to some charity, and all was good. Or once, back in the 70s, NBC decided that the peacock had to go. They had some expensive logo creative agency develop a new logo, a stylized letter N, one side red, the other side blue. Lotd of hoopla. Find out that Nebraska Public TV had been using that logo for years (all blue). Somebody asked Nebraska TV how much it cost to get that logo. He said maybe twenty bucks.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: formerNYer 7/29/2021 11:17:39 AM (No. 861197)
I haven't watch baseball all season and I canceled my baseball package 2 years ago. mlb can go to woke hell
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Reply 5 - Posted by: seal010101 7/29/2021 11:22:06 AM (No. 861203)
The Cleveland Pink Puffy Bunnies sounds just as good. I can't imagine that name is taken.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Highlander 7/29/2021 11:23:57 AM (No. 861206)
Cleveland Guppies has a nice ring to it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 7/29/2021 11:28:28 AM (No. 861208)
What if everybody continued to call them the Indians, and ignored this nonsense?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DaBigGuy 7/29/2021 11:43:36 AM (No. 861219)
Cleveland WokeBrokes. Logo could be a cartoon sack of money with wings flying away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: spacer 7/29/2021 12:42:11 PM (No. 861259)
I personally like the Cleveland Cucks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bad-hair 7/29/2021 1:09:11 PM (No. 861294)
Cleveland has a major league baseball team ? They used too but then they started disrespecting the citizens of the USA. They can now after changing their name for political correctness GO TO HELL and I won't notice. May I suggest the " Cleveland Pissants "
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Reply 11 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 7/29/2021 1:36:19 PM (No. 861315)
Trim the feather off of Chief Wahoo, give him a nose job, change his skin color and call the team the Wahoos. Most everyone would be OK with that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Hazymac 7/29/2021 2:04:45 PM (No. 861339)
Although the Rays are my local team, when all the controversy over Chief Wahoo came to a head, I could see that his days were numbered, so I bought a Cleveland Indians ball cap with the beaming Chief Wahoo rampant. And sometimes wear it outside. With pride. Americana before the left started abolishing it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DW626 7/29/2021 2:29:05 PM (No. 861356)
I like Cleveland Engines. I wonder if that has been used?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Periwinkel 7/29/2021 2:29:09 PM (No. 861357)
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the people who decide to change the names to be politically correct, (cancel historic figures, etc.) actually knew American history? The Cleveland Guardians is a good example; also Frederick Douglass is another. The 'woke' among us decided dear old Frederick was a symbol of slavery and cancelled him and removed his statue from its place of honor in Maryland. I mean you just don't see this kind of stupidity this often and twice in a decade???!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Namma 7/29/2021 2:33:12 PM (No. 861363)
Darn. I was hoping the new mascot would be THOR, guardian of the galaxies. Now that guy is worth getting rid of chief wahoo
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Omen55 7/29/2021 3:45:09 PM (No. 861431)
So they lack imagination in names & no one does any research. May they never win again.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 7/29/2021 5:11:24 PM (No. 861508)
Finally! Finally - - someone other than myself - - mentions that the name "Indians" was created in honor of Louis Sockalexis. I welcome Don Surber - - to the lonely world of people like me - - who understand where the "Indians" name came from. In the name of "equity" - - Indian people and their culture are being thrown down the memory hole. Lo, the poor Indians!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 7/29/2021 8:28:44 PM (No. 861674)
Guardians? That might better be the name for a line of prophylactics.
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