Cleveland Guardians?

[notin]

Apparently that’s their new moniker. It’s harmless, I will say the say that.

 

I would have preferred something more Baseball oriented, but not as mundane as the Cleveland Baseball Team. But most of those names are probably boring. Like the Cleveland Bats? Yawn. Cleveland Nine? Eh. Cleveland Sluggers? Not making my nipples perk up.

 

My personal choice based on region and marketing ease would have been the Cleveland Rocks. Sure I’d get sick of the song eventually, but it could be fun for a while.

 

For a while there was a minor League hockey team called the Lake Erie Monsters (since renamed the Cleveland Monsters.) Now THAT is a name that needs to come back. Lake Erie Monsters!! Not Cleveland Monsters. Get the lake name in there like it always should have been…

Edited July 23, 2021 by notin

[Thunder]

Cleveland Rocks is a better name for a minor league team. I don't have a problem with Guardians. Curious to find out what my family in Ohio thinks. Big Cleveland sports fans

[notin]

Cleveland Rocks is a better name for a minor league team. I don't have a problem with Guardians. Curious to find out what my family in Ohio thinks. Big Cleveland sports fans

 

More MLB teams need to adopt minor league naming strategies. We need more Trash Pandas!

[Bellhorn04]

I feel a comfortable indifference about this.

[mvp 78]

They are apparently named after the guardian statues on a bridge near the stadium. I guess they are locally famous?

 

Sounds silly at first, I've seen many Clevelanders mention that it's a good change. I'll differ to them.

 

Probably should have just gone with the Cleveland Clinics.

[Bellhorn04]

They are apparently named after the guardian statues on a bridge near the stadium. I guess they are locally famous?

 

Sounds silly at first, I've seen many Clevelanders mention that it's a good change. I'll differ to them.

 

Probably should have just gone with the Cleveland Clinics.

 

I think you're just testing me with that one.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

If it's statues guarding structures they wanted, the "Gargoyles" would've made more money on merchandise and caused more crowd participation with mascots offending and defending themselves.

[notin]

If it's statues guarding structures they wanted, the "Gargoyles" would've made more money on merchandise and caused more crowd participation with mascots offending and defending themselves.

 

 

The statues are not gargoyles, but apparently they are sometimes called Titans. Cleveland Titans would have been a better name IMO, but I have a feeling it made the list at some point and was rejected for some reason…

[Fan_since_Boggs]

I love names that help you understand history like the San Francisco 49ers. When did the Gold Rush migration take off in America? Thanks to the 49ers we know the year was 1849.

 

The Guardians is a boring name, I don't like it at all. I would want to examine history and learn more about the beginnings of Ohio as a state and Cleveland as a city and come up with a name that way.

 

If the name "Guardians" has some kind of historical significance for the the city of Cleveland then I like it.

Edited July 23, 2021 by Fan_since_Boggs

[mvp 78]

The statues are not gargoyles, but apparently they are sometimes called Titans. Cleveland Titans would have been a better name IMO, but I have a feeling it made the list at some point and was rejected for some reason…

 

NFL Team had claim?

[mvp 78]

I think you're just testing me with that one.

 

That doesn't sound like some thing I would do.

[notin]

NFL Team had claim?

 

Nah. They let that hockey team use their old name with no fuss…

[Thunder]

NFL Team had claim?

 

NFL team names aren't trademarked. It's fair game. Giants, Cardinals, etc...

[bkzwhitestrican]

I thought they were going to choose "Native Americans". That would have been the most PC.

[Thunder]

I thought they were going to choose "Native Americans". That would have been the most PC.

 

If they're going for PC, it would be the Cleveland BIPOC (black and indigenous people of color)

[notin]

NFL team names aren't trademarked. It's fair game. Giants, Cardinals, etc...

 

Jets…

[Bellhorn04]

Being a word freak, I find it interesting that the name change swapped 'In' for 'Guar'.

[notin]

Being a word freak, I find it interesting that the name change swapped 'In' for 'Guar'.

 

Saves on printing costs for the new uniforms…

[Thunder]

Saves on printing costs for the new uniforms…

 

Logo is very similar as well. Marketing team is channeling their inner Moneyball

[moonslav59]

I think it's a stupid name.

 

In this day & age, it's worse than lame.

 

I think "Rock" or "Rockers" would have been much better, but I'm sure there could have been an even better one.

[notin]

I think it's a stupid name.

 

In this day & age, it's worse than lame.

 

I think "Rock" or "Rockers" would have been much better, but I'm sure there could have been an even better one.

 

Well, wait until the Washington Football Team finds a way to crawl under the new bar. Will they go with my suggestion of "Washington Scandals"? Of course not!! In fact, I will lay money down in Vegas (with odds!) that their new name, which has taken longer to come up with, will be much, much less popular than the somewhat neutral Guardians...

[notin]

Logo is very similar as well. Marketing team is channeling their inner Moneyball

 

They might want to remove the red coloring from the face. It defeats the entire purpose of the change...

[Bellhorn04]

Well, wait until the Washington Football Team finds a way to crawl under the new bar. Will they go with my suggestion of "Washington Scandals"? Of course not!! In fact, I will lay money down in Vegas (with odds!) that their new name, which has taken longer to come up with, will be much, much less popular than the somewhat neutral Guardians...

 

How's this: the Washington Inclusives?

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Gargoyles is better than Guards, but the bridge statues are too handsome, plus if the club is bad, they'd be called ugly, like their record, or shortened to Goyles, which morphs into Ghouls (too ghastly) or Girls (too sexist or gender-specific... which makes you wonder: when do the Dallas CowBOYS need to change their name to something more neutral? Cowpoke? Cowfolk... Cowabungas?)

[Bellhorn04]

Gargoyles is better than Guards, but the bridge statues are too handsome, plus if the club is bad, they'd be called ugly, like their record, or shortened to Goyles, which morphs into Ghouls (too ghastly) or Girls (too sexist or gender-specific... which makes you wonder: when do the Dallas CowBOYS need to change their name to something more neutral? Cowpoke? Cowfolk... Cowabungas?)

 

Cowfolk or Cowpersons it would have to be.

[Sox75]

Well...

 

Since Moses Cleaveland cheated the the poor Massagoes Tribe out of the land, and they were too cheap to fit an extra a on the sign for the new town / city... not to mention the fact that Cleaveland was a carpetbagger from Connecticut...

 

They really need to change the name to the "Massagoes Guardians?" Either spring for the extra a and spell the City name correctly, or change the name of the city to those who originally "owned it."

 

Funny how as we're all getting Woke up, we tend to miss out on the big ironies.

Edited July 24, 2021 by Sox75

[Sox75]

Nope! Forget it! Then we'd have to change from Boston Red Sox to "Botwulf’s tun Red Stockings."

 

Let's just leave it alone and let them have the Cleveland Guardians. Keep quiet & let this all pass.

[notin]

Gargoyles is better than Guards, but the bridge statues are too handsome, plus if the club is bad, they'd be called ugly, like their record, or shortened to Goyles, which morphs into Ghouls (too ghastly) or Girls (too sexist or gender-specific... which makes you wonder: when do the Dallas CowBOYS need to change their name to something more neutral? Cowpoke? Cowfolk... Cowabungas?)

 

The Dallas Cheap Foreign Agricultural Labor Force?

[Northern Star]

Not crazy about the name, but understand that almost all of the really cool or viable names are already taken by some pro or semi-pro team in some sport somewhere. Even Guardians was already being used by the local roller derby side.

 

The logo and the C really, really suck. Why couldn't they keep the block C?