OT: Cleveland Guardians

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Why name a team with a pejorative? Makes no sense to me.

But yeah, let's erase history for the sake of some Karens.

It’s funny no one protests and threatens boycotts over the WFT’s decades long history of sexual misconduct and harassment but were willing to go all the way for a name.

 

[borg]

Lots of choice names here...

 

[captain stone]

Spiders? thats a new one... kinda cool though... per pbr the indians also played as Cleveland Naps, Cleveland Bronchos and Cleveland Blues / Bluebirds ...

The Spiders were their name for a decade when they were in the National League at the end of the 19th century...Though maybe because of the way their franchise ended, not too many Clevelanders might've been eager to see that name resurrected...

Cleveland Spiders - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Nikolai]

I remember someone saying what if the WFT was called the "Jewskins" and thinking..."actually, that'd be kinda cool...with like a Breslover's profile for a logo, Jewish songs, and hamentaschen for sale in the stands"

Then again, I guess it could get dark...like the whole Nazi thing...then I guess I'd look at them the same way I do an actual historical Nazi club, Schalke...

As a BVB supporter, **** Schalke...

 

[Kontradiction]

Why name a team with a pejorative? Makes no sense to me.

But yeah, let's erase history for the sake of some Karens.

Actually, I think they should go in the opposite direction and go all out. The Cleveland Towelheads, Cleveland Porch Monkeys, Cleveland Wetbacks, or the Cleveland Zipperheads would all be hilarious names.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

They absolutely could have picked something to do with the city or the region. Crap nickname that some socially woke committee came up with.

Agreed. I mean the Browns are named so because the city is one big heaping pile of ****

 

[captain stone]

Actually, I think they should go in the opposite direction and go all out. The Cleveland Towelheads, Cleveland Porch Monkeys, Cleveland Wetbacks, or the Cleveland Zipperheads would all be hilarious names.

Agreed. I mean the Browns are named so because the city is one big heaping pile of ****

If the football team can be named the Browns, then the baseball team being re-named the Blues, as was suggested by Pape on page 1, makes a lot of sense...as does the Rocks!