Renaming the Cleveland baseball team (NOT FOR DEFENDING "INDIANS")

[buzzdog]

For real, when I was a kid we went to Indians games at the Muni. As a little kid I remember watching guys like Joe Azcue, Leon Wagner, Sudden Sam, Woody Held.

But I never liked the big Chief Wahoo statue over one of the entrances. When I was really little after going to a game and probably eating too many hot dogs and cotton candy, I had a nightmare that was focused on Chief Wahoo like some kind of an evil clown. I never liked that mascot ever since even though I always rooted for the team.

 

[Lee]

Posting this with great trepidation and against my better judgement but in keeping with Lee's horrific sense of humor. The name Buckeyes is in the running but with Lee's mascot it could be called the Buckwheats?

Ugh. Mods delete if this crosses a line. I grew up with Spanky and Our Gang reruns.

Wrong race, Indian from India, Buckwheat is a reference to a black kid from Our Gang. Or at least Eddie Murphy on SNL, lol

I would say, Buckeyes is actually nice because of the Negro leagues. I keep my awful sense of humor away from things i would like to happen. Would actually be really cool if we honored the old Negro Leagues.

That is a picture of a dude from India, wrong racial slur when saying Buck Wheat....but dont worry we all know you are joking, just making the wrong joke.... which in a sense makes it funnier, because wrong racial slur...hilarious for being wrong.

I think Guardians wins, but i like Spiders followed by Buckeye, but it would be confused with those guys from Columbus.

 

[MirORich]

If Blues is under consideration, what about the Blue Caps?

A certain baseball symmetry with The Red Sox and White Sox.

Maybe too close to Blue Jays?

The irony(or is it more just on the nose) of the NE Ohio team being the Blues and the SW Ohio team the Reds would not be lost on some people as well.

Personally, as someone who would like to see a complete rebranding, I fear they will settle on the Guardians as it has the last five letters as the current name so they could keep the very familiar Script font and exact colors to maintain connection with what we’ve had for a while now in terms of branding and font. I hope they don’t go this way though and would love an entire new uniform design and main colors. I do actually like white or off white and indigo blue but maybe that’s too much like the royals. So making sure the white was more off white or creme would be important

 

[buzzdog]

Wrong race, Indian from India, Buckwheat is a reference to a black kid from Our Gang. Or at least Eddie Murphy on SNL, lol

I would say, Buckeyes is actually nice because of the Negro leagues. I keep my awful sense of humor away from things i would like to happen. Would actually be really cool if we honored the old Negro Leagues.

That is a picture of a dude from India, wrong racial slur when saying Buck Wheat....but dont worry we all know you are joking, just making the wrong joke.... which in a sense makes it funnier, because wrong racial slur...hilarious for being wrong.

I think Guardians wins, but i like Spiders followed by Buckeye, but it would be confused with those guys from Columbus.

I completely missed that caricature being a true Indian, LOL.

 

[CalBuckeyeRob]

Spiders is the best name for a logo. Blue Sox means you just decided not to try. I think it will be Commodores or Guardians. Neither thrills me but would like to see the logo and uniform that goes with it too.

 

[Criznit]

Commodores is a no go. Lazy slang = Cleveland Commies or Comos.

Ready soured on Guardians. Too authoritarian.

Too many people absolutely HATE actual Spiders..

Thinking it's the Blues or a riff on that for now. Blue Sox, Blue Caps, etc. Or the underdog: The Cleveland Baseball Team

New name will be exceedingly innocuous, and not that exciting.

 

[CalBuckeyeRob]

Or the underdog: The Cleveland Baseball Team

They would be the CBTs. If you don't know what that means, look it up. Would be appropriate for what most male fans of Cleveland teams have felt through the years though.

 

[33Y0]

Commodores is a no go. Lazy slang = Cleveland Commies or Comos.

Ready soured on Guardians. Too authoritarian.

Too many people absolutely HATE actual Spiders..

Thinking it's the Blues or a riff on that for now. Blue Sox, Blue Caps, etc. Or the underdog: The Cleveland Baseball Team

New name will be exceedingly innocuous, and not that exciting.

Guardians as too authoritarian? That's really... a stretch and thinking a lot into a name...

 

[Phills14]

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

I like the sound of the Cleveland Condors, but unfortunately, condors are big, ugly scavengers who feed on dead carcasses and don't live anywhere near Ohio. I don't care - there aren't any Tigers in Detroit or Bears in Chicago. I know they want a name that reflects the area and brings people together (whatever that means), but screw it, I like Condors. It implies that we will not only defeat you but also feed on your dead remains.

There was an ABA team named the Pittsburgh Condors for six seasons. I don't think anybody in Pittsburgh objected to the name.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

How about the Cleveland Thunder? I know, there's an NBA team with that name, but there are other names that are used by more than one professional sports team like the Cardinals and Giants. They've even had two pro teams in the same city with the same name before one of them moved (St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants).

I don't want a team named after a color (we already have one) or a pair of socks or a bunch of old statues. I wants something that inspires awe. How about the Bolts, as in lightning bolts?

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

I like the sound of the Cleveland Condors, but unfortunately, condors are big, ugly scavengers who feed on dead carcasses and don't live anywhere near Ohio. I don't care - there aren't any Tigers in Detroit or Bears in Chicago. I know they want a name that reflects the area and brings people together (whatever that means), but screw it, I like Condors. It implies that we will not only defeat you but also feed on your dead remains.

There was an ABA team named the Pittsburgh Condors for six seasons. I don't think anybody in Pittsburgh objected to the name.

Nah, it means someone else beat you then we wait for them to be finished eating whatever they want from your dead carcass, and we only pick at the rotten scraps.

Hard pass.

 

[buzzdog]

I see more turkey vultures in Ohio than any other scavenger bird. We had a huge Amur (grass carp) die in our pond and I wasn't sure how to best get rid of it. My wife suggested that I just drag it up out of the water to the bank, and by the next day about a dozen turkey vultures showed up and devoured it completely, bones and all. The only thing left was a greasy spot in the grass. It was awesome.

Screw the Cleveland Condors, I'd rather have the Cleveland Vultures.

 

[DJTJ]

If we’re going to be a bird, at least be the buzzards and get that nostalgia vibes going.

Here for Guardians, Spiders, or Buckeyes in no particular order. Also hear for Cleveland Baseball Club.

 

[macbdog]

Guardians, Muckleheads or The Forest City Baseball Club. I think The Cleveland Baseball Club is just too generic, like Washington Football Team. Even Cleveland Forest Cities. Who knows, maybe it would spark a tree planting surge. I don't get Commodores, would think war imagery would be avoided. Buckeyes would need tOSUs signoff and I don't see them giving up any rights to a team with a lower payroll than their football team. Spiders are just gross. I think Perch is an under-appreciated name; Walleye is already taken by a minor league hockey team in Toledo. Vultures would simply be too appropriate for a Down owned team.