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2020-12-14 -PC Follies

Cleveland Indians to change team name, sources confirm to ESPN

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Posted by Beavis 2020-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 In this PC environment, it was just a matter of time. The Tribe owner, Dolan, is about as limp Richard as they come. But if the Redskins owner Snider can cave in, then most anybody can as well.

105 years of "Indians" soon to be gone. But, come on, I really don't see the tribes of native Americans storming the Bastille over this baseball club nickname. It's a rubbish decision, but, sadly, not unexpected.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-14 00:07|| 2020-12-14 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 In 2018, Major League Baseball and the Indians mutually agreed to remove Chief Wahoo from the team's jersey, caps as well as in signage across Progressive Field.

It's been said that that was in the works for a while, and the limp Richard owner of the Tribe, Dolan, did it to get the All-star game in Cleveland for 2019.

The team has been called the Indians for nearly a century.

Well, I suppose "nearly" is correct, but "over a century" has a different impression (105 years to be exact).

Heaven help hockey's Chicago Blackhawks.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-14 00:14|| 2020-12-14 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Blackhawks are named after a person. Not a race or tribe. Chief Blackhawk.
Wikipedia on Blackhawk.

Posted by 3dc 2020-12-14 03:29|| 2020-12-14 03:29|| Front Page Top

#4 As a new name for the team, may I suggest "The Cleveland Colonizers" with a new logo of a cartoon white man licking blood off his scalping knife. From the TV series "Brockmire"

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2020-12-14 03:31|| 2020-12-14 03:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Just separate already. Go. Create your own woke leagues, woke entertainers, woke pastimes, your own Woke People's Republic.

You reject our history, trash our Constitution, make a mockery of our enlightened and noble ideals?

Fine, create your own shithole non-civilization-- and leave us out if it. We have nothing in common with you assholes and want nothing to do with you.

Time to secede.

Posted by Chitle and Company9067 2020-12-14 04:00|| 2020-12-14 04:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ...The sad thing is that NO ONE IN CLEVELAND CARED. I love the Tribe and always will, and that's exactly what I'm going to call them.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-12-14 04:25|| 2020-12-14 04:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Albuquerque was the annual site of the Gathering of Nations. It wasn't unusual to see the indigenous attendees wearing 'appropriated' sports related gear of their kindred. They're going to become invisible having their likeness and the respect to their warrior* heritage wiped from public consciousness.

* early explorers and voyagers noted the tribe on tribe combat among the locals long before any major presence of European colonists.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-14 05:59|| 2020-12-14 05:59|| Front Page Top

#8 They're going to become invisible having their likeness and the respect to their warrior* heritage wiped from public consciousness.

Their fate is to be remembered for tribal c@sinos and untaxed cigarettes.

Posted by Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-12-14 06:13|| 2020-12-14 06:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ...#1, #2 -

I actually have a certain sympathy for Dolan - it's been known in town for a while that the league has dropped not-so-subtle hints that if he won't change the name, they might just 86 him and find somebody who would. On top of that, I would point out that although there is some pressure on Atlanta to change their name, MLB isn't leaning on them anywhere near as hard - being a major market will do that for you. Cleveland doesn't have enough financial clout, even under the best of circumstances, to effectively resist.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-12-14 06:17|| 2020-12-14 06:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The judo move that should've been used here (and I think I mentioned it when the Redskins name got trashed) was to name the team after a tribe once you get their blessing (and give up some merch rights to get it). If it's a local tribe, all the better.

Posted by Raj 2020-12-14 08:13|| 2020-12-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#11 IIRC, the Indians were named that to HONOR a native American player.

BTW, the Indians were always my favorite team growing up. I went to college in Cleveland, and my wife is from there.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-12-14 10:12|| 2020-12-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

#12 During the 95 World Series I would mess with the Cleveland office telling them the Screaming Savage was superior to Chief Wahoo

Posted by Beavis 2020-12-14 10:21|| 2020-12-14 10:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Whatever you do, don't name them the Yankees in honor of dead white freedom loving dudes.

Posted by Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-12-14 10:22|| 2020-12-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ or the Patriots... dey white supremaciss

Posted by Omeatle Splat5880 2020-12-14 10:59|| 2020-12-14 10:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Baseball? They still play that?

Posted by Mercutio 2020-12-14 12:09|| 2020-12-14 12:09|| Front Page Top

#16 @ #3 - Since when did that matter in this f'ed up PC world?

Take this for what it's worth as it is Wikipedia.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-14 12:29|| 2020-12-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#17 And soon, despite all of the ballyhoo to the contrary and also weirdly because of it, Indians a/k/a Native Americans will disappear from the American cultural landscape entirely. The tribes are shrinking; the best members leaving to join mainstream society (and often marry whites and Hispanics), the less capable dwindling on the reservations. I live at the edge of a "res" and the trends are very clear: 1,100 members living there, 1,200 living outside of it. That later number won't ever move back, their kids will only visit grandma reluctantly, and their grand kids mostly won't qualify for tribal membership at all.

Didn't have to be that way. Some of the tribes (like the Ute) have done reasonably well for themselves. But being remembered via sports and movies as brave and indomitable warriors isn't the worst thing for your cultural self-esteem. Being objects of pity for activists until they move onto the next thing... not so much.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-12-14 12:35|| 2020-12-14 12:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Settle down, everybody - I'm sure this new nickname, apparently a frontrunner for the job, will make all parties pleased as spiked punch...

Posted by Raj 2020-12-14 14:42|| 2020-12-14 14:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Why not the Steamers? Cleveland's most famous product.

Posted by Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-12-14 14:51|| 2020-12-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

#20 There is always the Flames.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-14 15:11|| 2020-12-14 15:11|| Front Page Top

#21 Actually I agree that the name has to go. "Northern Ohio Indians" or "Lake Erie Indians" sounds so much nicer.

Posted by Tom 2020-12-14 15:45|| 2020-12-14 15:45|| Front Page Top

#22 Spiders? What is this, the XFL?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-12-14 15:54|| 2020-12-14 15:54|| Front Page Top

#23 #19 FTW

Posted by Frank G 2020-12-14 15:57|| 2020-12-14 15:57|| Front Page Top

#24 Never happen, but if "Clinicians" isn't on the table, somebody at the Clinic needs firing. Me, I like Clap. Or Clowns. Or Cupcakes. Who doesn't like cupcakes? "Batter up!"

Posted by Tarzan Sinatra3836 2020-12-14 17:29|| 2020-12-14 17:29|| Front Page Top

#25 Cleveland Clods
Cleveland Clones
Cleveland Clowns
Kleveland Klooge
Cleveland?C'monMan!

Posted by Angurong Wheang4771 2020-12-14 17:32|| 2020-12-14 17:32|| Front Page Top

#26 And no "absolutely no truth to these wild rumors that Mr. Eastwood has made an offer for the Indians?" Sigh.

Posted by Tarzan Sinatra3836 2020-12-14 17:38|| 2020-12-14 17:38|| Front Page Top

#27 Woke thing.
Who pulled your puppet string
You make everything..phooey
Come'on Come'on woke thing.

Woke thing, I think I louthe ya
Annnndd I know for sure.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-12-14 18:13|| 2020-12-14 18:13|| Front Page Top

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