The Cleveland Guardians? Yes, It's Official

conor912 · #1 07-23-2021, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

And that would offend the insomniacs.

Just like Naps would offend siestas and slumbers

JollyElm · #2 07-23-2021, 03:10 PM

That name is the epitome of awfulness!!!!! What in high f_ck???????????

They should have no name at all, with just a bold, handwritten 'x' on the front of the jersey as a symbol of cancel culture. And perhaps any fan showing up in something with a Cleveland Indians logo on it should be immediately arrested.

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Or better yet, call them the Cleveland Cortis, to memorialize the ITALIAN actor who played the fake, crying Indian in those memorable 1970 TV commercials, Espera Oscar de Corti. Quite apropos.

SAllen2556 · #3 07-23-2021, 03:32 PM

Now if they could just change the name "Cleveland" they'd really have something.

conor912 · #4 07-23-2021, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by SAllen2556

Now if they could just change the name "Cleveland" they'd really have something.

Hahahaha

JustinD · #5 07-23-2021, 04:14 PM

...I was really hoping they would go with Cleveland Steamers to really signify how this whole thing was handled.

peanuts · #6 07-23-2021, 04:24 PM

Honestly, it's not that bad, just a bit generic. It looks like they're leaning into an Art Deco style, which will be a nice break from the usual.

Folks from Cleveland, did the campaign to pick the Spiders ever really take off locally? It always seemed to get good traction online, but never saw it mentioned in any Ohio media.

jcmtiger · #7 07-23-2021, 04:43 PM

Look at what is happening here, changing names of streets, sports teams, removing statues, etc, on and on. We should be looking at China & see how they control their people, it�s happening here.

BobC · #8 07-24-2021, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by peanuts

Folks from Cleveland, did the campaign to pick the Spiders ever really take off locally? It always seemed to get good traction online, but never saw it mentioned in any Ohio media.

Not really that I ever heard of. Did see some online stuff about emailing suggestions and such to the team, but if I remember correctly, there was some caveat that in so doing that you had to give up the right to that name and only allow the team to copyright and use it. The team was first and foremost out to make sure they, and they alone, controlled whatever name they ended up selecting so as to maximize and control whatever profit they could make out of the new name and logo. All the while still selling Indians and Chief Wahoo gear for right now. You watch, the team will maintain the Indians and Chief Wahoo copyrights for now, in case they can still profit off it somehow. Meanwhile, their probable public excuse for keeping them is to say they don't want anyone just taking them over and to start producing items that will be disrespectful to native Americans.

There are another couple of names I thought might be good ones. Cleveland used to have a popular hockey team called the Barons, in the AHL, and for a while had the Crusaders in the NHL. Since neither team is with us any longer, both of names should have been available. Either of those rolls off the tongue better than the Guardians. And you could probably resurrect some version of the old logos as well. And if you used the Crusaders, that kind of goes along with the Cleveland State University Vikings and the Cleveland Cavaliers as having a somewhat similar medieval group represented by the name.

JollyElm · #9 07-23-2021, 04:36 PM

Coming soon...

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