Cleveland Indians to change nickname, per report

[Brother Buzz]

Cleveland Indians to change nickname, per report

Cleveland could officially announce its name change plans this week, according to the New York Times

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.

Cleveland's franchise has had three other identities during its existence: the Naps (after Nap Lajoie), the Bronchos, and the Blues. Of those, the Naps is the only name that lasted beyond a single season.

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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/cleveland-indians-to-change-nickname-per-report/

Anyone have a good name other than what they were throwing out in the report?

[unblock]

1. cleveland lights? cleveland rock 'n' rollers? cleveland riverfires?

i'm guessing they won't go for that last one....

[Brother Buzz]

9. Ooh, I LIKE the Cleveland Rocks

And I guess, as a hat tip to Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the official front office name could be The Cleveland Rock 'n Rollers

Hell, Drew Carey totally need to throw out the first pitch...again!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Burning Cuyahogas!

[True Dough]

3. The Cleveland

Buzzing Brothers!

[luvs2sing]

4. The Midges.

The Cookies
The Easters
The Eries

I’ve been referring to them as The Team That Needs to Change Its Name.

[Harker]

5. Eries was my first thought...

but then that's another indigenous name.

[luvs2sing]

6. Good point.

I was just thinking about the lake.

[Harker]

8. Me too.

[Mendocino]

14. We called midges

muckleheads. I spent some summers at Cedar Point OH, those bugs were everywhere.

[House of Roberts]

7. Wonder how much they could get if a commercial sponsor would name the team?

All the stadiums have names from sponsors, race teams are named after their sponsors, as are the race tracks and events now.

Individual game matchups could have unique names from sponsors, similar to the college bowl games.

[Harker]

10. Cleveland Cokes.

Maybe they'll play the Pittsburgh Pepsis one day.

[BlueTsunami2018]

11. Bring back the Spiders!

That would be fun.

[luvs2sing]

12. I like that name.

The logo designs could be great.

[Brother Buzz]

13. Um, there's some bad juju associated with that name

The Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in 1899, their last year.

[amb123]

15. Cleveland Wild Things

After Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn

[Capt. America]

16. The Guardians, Gulls, Spiders.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Um, see post #13

I still like The Cleveland Rocks (post #9)

[Capt. America]

18. Because the owner sold all the good player then. It would have been a double A team today.

[Auggie]

19. Kielbasas, Polka Kings, Ghoulardis ...