Change Name of Baseball Team

Your heart is full of hate towards the indigenous population.

So much for love thy neighbour.

It's just a name change.

It's not like when Wimbledon became the MK Dons, now that was a real travesty.

It's extremely tough to be a Cleveland sports fan, but we do our best to love and support our teams. Unless you were born and raised here, you really have no idea what's it's like. All the triumphs and let downs are just par for the course and "next year" is always the standard phrase.

Were you here when the Kardiac Kids and Brian Sipe of the Browns led the NFL in the 80's? Or when Art Model decides to move the team to Baltimore and for three long years a court battle ensued to retain the team name, colors & funding for a new stadium? Nineteen quarterbacks and counting since then...

Where you here the night of LeBron James's big announcement to leave the Cavaliers so he could actually win a championship ring? Yeah, he left, came back and left again. Rumor has it, he's coming back to retire here. We'll see.

And the Guardians? Well, all of your "un-wokeness" doesn't understand who and what we are. Situated on the shores of Lake Erie, Progressive Field is the hot spot for midges and mayflies that turn an ordinary night into the Bug Game of the Year. Chief Wahoo was a caricature of days long gone, a spoof against the seriousness and the talent of an extraordinary team that performs exceedingly well year after year. It was time to be replaced.

The Guardians name was chosen carefully and deliberately to commemorate the Hope Memorial Bridge on I-77, in which the history and art of Cleveland merge together in one place. You can read more here: https://www.mlb.com/guardians/fans/cleteamname/hope-memorial-bridge

In the immortal words of the Michael Stanley Band, "This is my town. Love her, hate her, it don't matter. Cuz this IS my town." Take your un-wokeness and go somewhere else. You don't have the heart to be in the Heartland.