Posted on 12/13/2020 5:55:14 PM PST by Stravinsky
Cleveland's Major League Baseball team has decided to change its nickname, moving away from the moniker it has employed for more than 100 years and that is considered insensitive to indigenous peoples, according to David Waldstein and Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times. An announcement from the team could come as soon as this week, per the Times.
It's unclear how Cleveland will refer to itself during the upcoming season. One option is to keep the name for an additional year before then transitioning to a new identity; another is to go the route of the National Football League's Washington franchise, which dropped its own offensive nickname in July. The club has since been known as the Washington Football Team. Cleveland would, presumably, be called the Cleveland Baseball Team until a new nickname could be settled upon.
Cleveland's decision comes more than two years after it started to distance itself from the "Chief Wahoo" logo. Back in July, when the Washington Football Team announced its altered identity, Cleveland announced it would investigate the "best path forward" with regards to the team name. Subsequently, our Dayn Perry offered several replacement options, including the ever-popular "Spiders," as well as the "Rockers," the "Crows," and "Dobys," named after Hall of Famer Larry Doby, who was the American League's first Black player.
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Redskins was a slur, I get that. But what’s offensive about Indians?
The Cleveland Clavens
Inspired by the catchiness of “The Washington Football Team,” maybe they’ll go with “The Cleveland Baseball Team.”
Probably means they won’t be able to show “Major League” anymore.
India. Our Native Americans aren’t from India.
They could call the Cricket Team the "Indians".
Will the country of “India” have to change their name too?
How about just changing the mascot to a woman wearing a sari, or a Hindu Swami? Bang, presto, it isn’t offensive anymore.
I’m offended by the term “Yankees.”
Those sports moguls just keep hammering more nails into their collective WOKE coffin.
It’s times like this that I wished I was a sports fan, so I could quit being a sports fan.
Alas, I could care less about most sports.
I quit nascar when they got all woke and BLM’ey.
Barely miss it after being a 40 year fan.
I happened to read that your be of my favorite drivers win the championship. Meh.
How about the Cleveland sissies?
Cleveland Karen’s?
Cleveland sux?
Go back to ‘The Naps’.
Cleveland Spidrs with a logo from “eight legged freaks”
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