The Cleveland Guardians?
 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/clev...guardians.html

The Major League Baseball team in Cleveland is changing its name to Guardians, the franchise announced Friday, dropping the controversial "Indians," by which it had been known for more than a century.

That's offensive

Pretty lame new name

I dig it

Cleveland Baseball Team has a better ring to it.

The Kansas City Football Club coming soon

Maybe the Cleveland Thing?

tones of toxic masculinity.

...need to change the name..

I don't like it. FWIW, I think Washington Football Team should just keep that name and not try to add a mascot.

I like it better. LMAO

Now every time I watch a Cleveland baseball game I'm going to be reminded of that stooge TheGuardian.

Should have went with Cleveland Spiders.

nobody cares about cleveland sports anyway

The Cleveland Rocks would’ve been funny

This is what it should've been

Could’ve been an awesomely bad name…would’ve fit that city perfectly. They blew it.

Of the galaxy?

As someone with a deep Guardian heritage, I find this offensive.

Who is the ad wizard that came up with this idea?

/Seinfeld, snl circa 90s.

I guess it was bound to happen. Long overdue.

They should now make a raccoon with a gun their mascot.

GFY

It’s pretty meh, just like the rest of Ohio.

So the Steamers didn’t make the cut???

ROFL Must have hit a sore spot with you.

Yuck.

Sad watching Middle America continue to be eviscerated by The Left.

Baseball is very metaphysical.

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Dad I wanted optimus prime, shutup boy this here is gspot ball, learn how to find it.

whew!

Thank goodness.

So many people can feel better about themselves now!

Cleveland Rocks or Cleveland Steamers. Either would've been better than the shitty generic redesign using "The Guardians". Worst logo and uniform in baseball now.

Not a single Native American gave a shit. White leftists all deserve the gallows.

Would have been more fun if they would have kept the name and changed but gave it an India vibe, they have plenty of wicked looking Gods to choose from I believe.

There were a handful of them that are trying to destroy any legacy usage not linked with casinos I think...

Steamers

I think they wanted to do that, but the team refused wearing dots on their foreheads.

Damnit

Better than the old racist name and mascot. Racists might disagree.

That name is some uninspired A ball shite.

^false narratives^

Cleveland Casinos......logo could have been JACKPOT - JACKPOT - JACKPOT from a slot machine

I hope they have Rocket Raccoon as their new mascot.

Not sure I would go that far considering a pitcher on the Cardinals had a ****in meltdown about the Braves during their playoff series.

That is a dumb name

There are still over a billion people worldwide who practice Hinduism. It's just best not to use their actual gods as mascots/logos.

Guardians sounds generic and forgettable.
That logo....yeesh.

I guess the Cleveland Oh Shit The River's On Fire Again doesn't really roll off the tongue

So, Chiefs is gonna be gone soon right?

Probably inevitable at this point

Not sure if trolling or not.... :hmmm:

However if you disagree with my OPINION, then feel free to refer to yourself as one of the multiple "ist" that's popular when in a public debate.

Kansas City Gehas

But hey, you can sleep at night with a clear conscience.

Always look on the bright side of BS.

It’s best if we eliminate as much Native American imagery as possible you know.

I will agree the mascot/image of Chief Wahoo was insensitive and racist. Not sure about the name “Indians” though….

Oh, you are no fun. I just wanted to see what their reaction would be, they might think it is pretty cool. I've driven past their temples, they don't seem to have an issue with displaying their gods. Karna has a pretty unique lightning bow thing that could work as a logo. "no, no, that isn't a native american bow, that is an India indian god bow".

I still think, if they wanted to, they could get ahead of it by utilizing Chiefs from different cultures. Most civilizations had a Chief you could choose from, and we use the name in our military as well, so we could even have some of them. We have chosen to be more inclusive and celebrate Chiefs from around the world...

And if they wanted to, they could just say "Because **** you. That's why."

Yep, if you ever see the mob come after Hunt and this organization to the point where they have no choice, they will just rebrand rather than rename. The term 'Chief' is not trademarked by Native Americans last time I checked.

A military style uniform would be pretty badass now that you mention it, and also rub it in the face of the mob who forced the change. Perfect solution.

I still don't think it'll be an issue though. The Chiefs and Braves both really have solid ground to stand on, there's nothing offensive about their brands and anything that was, they've already eliminated.

Spiders, Rocks, Steamers, Clinics ALL would have been better. I hate this PC crap.

Guardians? What the **** are they guarding? :spock:

Obviously I never gave it much thought, or gave a shit, but it seems like Cleveland Rockers would have been a better choice. The logo could have been a baseball with a guitar neck coming out of it, or a guitar with baseball stitching on it. Direct tie in to a local tourist draw. Mascot could have been somebody playing a guitar. Wouldn't have offended anybody. Hell, many locals might have even embraced it.

Probably makes too much sense for the woke crowd, though.

Rocker, are Shawn and Marty the mascots?

Yep. It's so ****ing stupid.

A couple of buff white dudes? In this environment?

https://media.tenor.com/images/4cf4a...baea/tenor.gif

I assume this guy is available. :D

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-cont...cker.jpg?w=420

I think the "Cleveland Karens" would be perfect.

Just a bit outside.

I saw on the news this AM they chose Guardians as the name because an old bridge in Cleveland have statues built into them that are called "The Guardians." OK, but still, there would have been a dozen better names. The Rocks or Rockers would have been great.

They paid Tom Hanks to help ‘sell’ it.


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Charlie Sheen in the Wild Thing uni would have been better...

I don't understand how bad the names of some of the new teams are.

Las Vegas Golden Knights
Cleveland Guardians
Almost every team in MLS

The Kraken is actually a cool name for Seattle, but that is it.

Nobody gave a shit about what some 1/16th Cherokee larper thought.

Minus twitter

It all started going down hill when they allowed Sunday liquor sales.

Looks like a logo that of some single A ball club from Muskegon, Michigan

**** it. Cleveland Ermines. That's what I'm gonna call them. You're all welcome to join me

That video should come with hip waders.

Well they dropped the In and kept the dians. Brilliant Cleveland bravo.

Logo looks like an 80's rock album cover.

As probably the only Indians fan here, I'm not in love with the change. Guardians does have a lot of connection with the city so it was, in my mind, always the most likely change. I probably would have enjoyed the Cleveland Rocks more. I can live with Guardians, but the font and logo and absolute garbage. As Judas mentioned, it looks like an 80s rock album. I don't know who they used for a focus group, but I've seen dozens of better logo designs and fonts using the Guardians.

No doubt, they have some pretty cool iconography. I just.. eh. Sports team mascots turn into caricatures pretty quickly. It's best not to involve figures from religions that are actively being practiced since they can easily be seen as making a mockery of something pretty serious to a lot of people.

As a loose example, I don't think the anti-woke Christian crowd here in America would love it if they found out a soccer team in Vietnam went by the name of the Water Walkers and Jesus was their mascot. At the games, people would show up with bloody crowns of thorns and fake nails in their hands and feet.

Mascot could be a bipolar, lesbian that goes 50/50 on depression and anger for the game length with no personality other than to bitch and whine about how there's only men on the field.