No offense, but that’s awful.
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The Cleveland Guardians, brought to you by FTD.*
*look it up after you get off my lawn
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If Arte Moreno owned them they’d be the Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy.
OK, this is apparently an obscure city feature, like naming the Chicago teams after the cow who burned down the city (I favor that).
https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/articles/the-guardians-of-traffic
Terrible name. Shoulda been Spiders.
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Spiders would be awesome. Rockers was another one thrown around by the media…I thought that would have been cool.
Maybe they’ll host “notary nights” where minors can get documents co-signed by a Guardian!
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Pffft, should have used a Spinal Tap reference; the Cleveland 11s
Flaming Drummers
That is el terrible, which is Spanish for the terrible.
Cleveland minor leaguers who get called up for one game will now be known as Guardians Ad Litem.
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My god, think of the uniform styles and merchandising opportunities they could have done with “Spiders.” That could have been cool as shit.
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I figured it had some historical connotations (and those statues das showed are neat), but still you need to get a group of 10 years olds togther and have them think of something cool.
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I totally agree, and I don’t know why there aren’t more Spider team names in the mainstream of sports other than Richmond, if you consider them mainstream. Seems like you could do a lot with logos, shirts and field graphics with some menacing ass spiders. Had I been in charge of the Cleveland franchise, we would have changed our team colors to black, red and silver and our logo would have been some variation of a ball in a web with a spider.
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That’s absolutely stupid. Leave their Indians name alone.
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I’m curious if all the snowflakes triggered by the Cleveland club changing their nickname were equally offended with the team from Tampa Bay dropping the “Devil” from theirs? I don’t recall quite the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I would think the mascot would be a racoon with a grenade launcher.
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I’ve been bitten twice by brown recluses, which took months to heal. Spiders are unforgettable
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That reference did not go over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
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