DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Contemplating New Names for the Cleveland Baseball Team

Perch Merch. lol

That's already taken. My wife calls me that.

In the early 1950s the first "rock concert" was in Cleveland was called the Moondog Coronation Ball. It was organized by Alan Freed, who popularized the phrase Rock and Roll. That was my reasoning. Beyond that, there was a musician of that name and here's what wikipedia says:

"A moon dog, moondog, or mock moon, (scientific name paraselene, plural paraselenae, meaning "beside the moon") is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight by hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds."

Mine does too! But I think she references something to do with a cat....

I knew you would complain. It is totally acceptable.

Thank clwb419 - you learned me something.

Would you go Moondogs or Moon Dogs?
I think I like Moon Dogs better personally

I like Cleveland Armory but I'm sure some Liberal would get Butthurt as it suggests weapons storage. I like Blue Sox.

I would love Guardians if they did something cool around the statues on the bridge.

They won't, though. So it's not something we need to worry about.

It wouldn't matter to me. I kept it as one word because the original concert was one word.

Most of the reason the Indians are contemplating a name change is because of Chief Wahoo.

The Cleveland Pride
I think that has a nice ring to it
The logo could be a cool lion

I read that male lions routinely eat their young. They lay around the shanty while the female hunts for food. Female lion drags back a wildebeest for dinner and asks the male "where's the baby?". Male lion says "<BURP>".

The Cleveland Armada

Wahoo has been gone for few years now.

I would go with the Commodores and our logo could be...

That's the first thing I thought of when reading that. I'm not a baseball fan so it really makes me no difference.

Why would you suddenly end your fandom over finding a more appropriate name?

Nope.

The reason the name is under review is due to pressure to find something that actually honors a group rather than adopting a term that represents a group with little to no association.

Before Sockalexis gets brought up, please research the little support he had from the organization during and after his playing time in Cleveland. How can we honor a group if we ask for not input and come up with a blanket term that ignores the various cultural differences and unique qualities of many Native American groups.

Not accusing you of any of this, Jester. Just saying there's a bigger part of this argument than "keep that out of here. Let's just simply discuss names."

Well, you consider "Cleveland Indians" inappropriate. I don't. Do you even know why they became known as the Indians?

If they do change it I say go with Cleveland Whiteskins just to watch folks heads explode.

Look at GMDawg’s icon.

I am keeping him too.

I don't have any issues with discussing whether we should change the name or not. I respectfully ask that that be done in it's own thread and not this one

But the team stop selling the merch!

I raised my hand. Wahoo! Go, Tribe!

Pretty cool!

Sockalexis and a poll by the fans in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

I find it more problematic than inappropriate. There's a difference.

The name has been the name for over 100 years, and mostly without any issue whatsoever .... until fairly recently.

They change the name and I will probably bow out of following the team. I am an Indians fan.

As a white man, you don't have the authority to decide which team to root for.

I hope you get that. PM me if you don't.

I got it.

I apologize.

I truly hope I’m not the first to take a thread even a wee bitty bit sideways.

What’s wrong with Tribe, as someone else suggested?

Or would that still be too politically incorrectfor the snowflake, virtual-signalling SJWs?

No apologies necessary. There have been a couple comments about not wanting to change but for the most part people have stayed on topic. On page 8 and still on topic. When has that ever happened before?

I guess my 1st thought on Tribe is that The Tribe that we call ourselves sounds cool but when you go The Cleveland Tribe it kinda falls flat - JMO

I also think that if we do change our name that the owners would want to go with a completely new identity. Again JMO

The Cleveland Crucible

Per dictionary.com a crucible is a severe, searching test or trial (definition #3)
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/crucible

Tell me that isn't appropriate. The Indians without a WS win since 1948. The best regular season record in the history of baseball in 1954 then losing in the WS. The 3 WS losses since the mid 90's, then add in all the crap most of us have had to put up with also being Browns... That qualifies as a severe trial in my book

Jester;

My apology was sarcasm but I still like ya.

But, if they change the name, I honestly think Cleveland Tribe rolls off the tongue well. also, it would be a nod to history. Baseball, and also the native thing

I can be a little Sheldon-ish when it comes to sarcasm, which is why I invented the idea of making sarcasm purple.

And I like you too - notice, not in purple

If sarcasm has to be in purple then it defeats the point of sarcasm.

the Cleveland Legends (reference to the hall of fame)
The Cleveland Rush (first city in the US to play Rush on a RnR station)
Cleveland Vulcan... Vulcanized Rubber
Cleveland Rocks (Rock n Roll Reference, also just blast the song through the stadium)

I like Legends.

There is a name that we have been skirting around. We tried recycling old baseball name (spiders and buckeyes) and old hockey names (crusaders and barons) but have skipped over recycling the name of probably the most successful franchise in Cleveland in the past 50 years. The Cleveland Force from indoor soccer.

The Cleveland Storm
The Cleveland Blizzard