Cleveland's baseball team changing name from Indians to Guardians

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 6m
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s baseball team changing name from Indians to Guardians.

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[marble falls]

1. Good idea, bad choice.

[JCMach1]

26. Should have resurrected The Spiders

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Agreed!

Or capitalize on the tourist aspect of the R&R HoF and called them "The Rockers".
But, it would be cool to resurrect a 122 year old name!

[JCMach1]

36. Orig logo was also hella cool

[Harker]

2. Awful name with no connection or sense of tradition. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Wrong.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/cleveland-indians-baseball-team-changes-name-to-the-guardians.html

The name Guardians is a reference to well-known Art Deco statues located on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, which spans the Cuyahoga River and connects downtown Cleveland to the city’s trendy Ohio City neighborhood. Those statues are known as the “Guardians of Traffic.”

[Harker]

12. Yep. I just found out.

I withdraw that part of my objection.

I probably shouldn't even have an opinion, seeing as how I don't live there and haven't seen a ball game since before Coors Field was built, but that's just ugly.

[Goodheart]

17. The elephant in the room: baseball sucks.

LOL

I applaud the name change, though.

[Harker]

20. Me, too.

I'll stick to hockey.

[PufPuf23]

30. Thank you. That explains Guardians. Did not know the

background to the name.

Would have liked to see the Rockers or the Rollers or the RocknRollers.

[USALiberal]

10. Did you even research it at all?? Nt

[Harker]

15. Nope. Blabbed prematurely. n/t

[Goodheart]

3. Why "Guardians"?

Is this like an allusion to comic book superheroes?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. .

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/cleveland-indians-baseball-team-changes-name-to-the-guardians.html

The name Guardians is a reference to well-known Art Deco statues located on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, which spans the Cuyahoga River and connects downtown Cleveland to the city’s trendy Ohio City neighborhood. Those statues are known as the “Guardians of Traffic.”

[Goodheart]

9. Then I like it.

Well done.

[greenjar_01]

5. Great name great change

World Series, 2022.

[Champp]

7. I love "Guardians," but the logo sucks

The old logo, however, was a total disgrace.

[USALiberal]

11. Submit your logo! Nt

[Champp]

21. Yes Sir

I reckon that the image of this guy, purloined from the net, would make a better mascot than a guardian. At any rate, the possibilities are many...

[Goodheart]

14. I think it's extra clever that the "-dians" part of the new name links back to the old one.

Well done.

[Turbineguy]

13. The Guardians

of the twinkies.

[Tommy Carcetti]

16. That logo, though...nt

[Goodheart]

19. Shouldn't it be a "C" instead of a "G"?

I mean, imagine if on the helmets of the New York Giants there were a G there instead of NY. Or a B on the Chicago Bears helmets.

[Harker]

22. Bicago Chairs has a ring to it. n/t

[Goodheart]

23. I chuckled.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. The fact they haven't changed their twitter handle or addressed the issue in the announcement

video says a lot, though.

[madville]

24. Guardians sounds like a football team name

So they are named after a local statue that is called the "Guardian of Traffic" LMAO. Sounds like they were desperate and out of ideas.

[Goodheart]

25. "Lakers" was taken.

Might have called themselves the Eries, which would have been a fitting adjective for their quality of play.

The Eries in the Series! Hooray!

[Harker]

27. That crossed my mind, too, but that puts them back where they started

as Lake Erie was named for an Iroquoian people who lived by the lake.

[Amishman]

28. Should have been the Cleveland Clevelands

[Champp]

29. Who could ever forget "The Full Cleveland" fashion fad?

Who will lead the fashion comeback for Full Clevelands? Not I.

[Beausoleil]

31. Probably complete coincidence

But I couldn't help thinking of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands_Guardian

[radius777]

32. It's a fine name. Besides, the perception of a team

and it's name/brand is how well the team performs, what it comes down to. Win a championship and The Cleveland Guardians will be the coolest thing ever.

Did you know that the Yankees and Dodgers did not even have official names at first, but the names came from nicknames used by local newspaper writers? The Yankees name comes from the fact that they were the American league team in NY, and were at first referred to as the NY Americans and then the NY Yankees (synonym for American). The Dodgers name comes from the fact that residents of Brooklyn were known to dodge the street cars in the busy streets. Both of those names are nothing intrinsically special - but became special due to the long history the franchises have, and of great players and success.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. The Dodgers Had Several Names...

...before Trolley Dodgers, then just Dodgers.
They were called The Robbies after the manager, Robinson (or Robertson, I forget which.)
They were called The Superbas after a famous stage show the owner had some hand in.
IIRC, they had a different name every few years for their first 20 years of existence.

[Hortensis]

35. Our 7-year-old son and his teammates were Miss Kay's Interiors

after their sponsor. The next year they got to choose their own name and became the Velociraptor Sharks. Apparently they couldn't decide which were the more vicious killers.

[roamer65]

37. Should have stolen a page from Drew Carey.

The Cleveland Rocks.