Why the left went after sports
Donsurber.com,
by
Don Surber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/10/2022 5:24:02 AM
The Cleveland Indians are the most exciting team in baseball. They have 10 rookies on their 26-man roster. Six others were rookies last year. They play small ball and win. They are managed by Tito Francona Jr., a grandpa who led the Boston Red Sox in 2004 to their first World Series championship in 86 years.
Fans in Cleveland shun the Cleveland Indians this year.
That's because the team is not the Cleveland Indians. Management caved in to Woke Know Nothings and changed the name to Guardians this year. Attendance was 25th among the 30 major league teams.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/10/2022 5:56:30 AM (No. 1300271)
Forget the woke leftists. The question is why are sports franchises and big business acquiescing to the woke? The tyranny of the minority around the world is obviously very powerful and more powerful than most of us believe. They've infiltrated and established themselves in positions of power, and they're changing our entire world. America, the last bastion of freedom, has to be conquered and destroyed in order for the world to fall apart. That's happening now, and it's at an accelerated pace; we're losing our country piecemeal every day, and the rest of the world is not faring much better. The one world government is making its move. Things will be so bad that people will fall in line and accept their takeover, or we'll simply be powerless to defend against them. It's bad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Krause 10/10/2022 5:58:42 AM (No. 1300274)
Long time ‘Indians’ fan. ‘Guardian’ is such a turn off.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rich323 10/10/2022 6:52:55 AM (No. 1300305)
Fans should not buy any renamed rebranded sports gear. That’s millions in lost revenues to franchises and players if you don’t play their game. Wear your old gear everywhere you can.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rich323 10/10/2022 6:57:22 AM (No. 1300309)
Cleveland fans should demand they drop any references to Cleveland. Just make them a homeless sports franchise. Wear your Indians gear everywhere you can. Make videos of Indians fans wearing Indians gear and post on Cleveland websites. Fight back!
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I am waiting for the woke mob to go after the Minnesota Vikings, the Boston Celtics and the Oakland raiders as negative stereotypes of white people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PCMM 10/10/2022 7:44:39 AM (No. 1300340)
One of my favorite t-shirts is a Cleveland Indians copy that, instead of an Indian, has a white guy with blonde hair (wearing a big grin like the Indian) that states, “Caucasians” that replicates the original design. It was initially designed to troll white people but backfired (politically), because white people would LOVE to have a “Caucasian” team logo. The tee became a bestseller, so it was a win-win for the designer.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
spacer 10/10/2022 7:54:50 AM (No. 1300344)
States, cities, counties, rivers, valleys ,swamps, mountains, all across the fruited plains are named after various American tribes or their culture.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 10/10/2022 8:13:59 AM (No. 1300361)
Not to mention military helicopters.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
essgee1952 10/10/2022 8:27:36 AM (No. 1300378)
I live in Cherokee County. How long before it must be changed?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Slartibartfast 10/10/2022 8:31:47 AM (No. 1300383)
Then there is Indian motorcycles...hmm, let's see, how about Putt putt motorcycles. That ought not offend anyone except maybe a golfer or two. Come to think of it, Mclroy will probably whine...he is good at that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Swirven 10/10/2022 8:35:47 AM (No. 1300386)
I was an avid baseball fan. Had season tickets and watched all the away games. That changed when baseball "got woke". Haven't been to or watched a game in several years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 10/10/2022 8:45:46 AM (No. 1300393)
I boycott all casinos owned by Indians. It’s my little way of protesting the Cleveland Indian owners caving.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/10/2022 9:00:21 AM (No. 1300408)
Same in DC. Real Redskins fans still call the team by that name and still wear their Redskins gear to games. The left may be able to control the team name, but they will never be able to control the fans.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Encore 10/10/2022 9:03:47 AM (No. 1300412)
Guardians? Sounds a bit like ‘Supremacists’! No?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/10/2022 9:06:00 AM (No. 1300415)
Qs a resident of western pennsylvania in the 1940s, I was a fan of the Cleveland Indians. And as I understand the folklore surrounding the team name, Cleveland, 120 years ago was named the Spiders.
Then along came a Cleveland player who was highly skilled, and they renamed the team the Indians, because that player was one. (The Cleveland football team was named the Browns after their coach, Paul Brown.)
Baseball used to be important to me and other little boys, because we all believed, deep down
inside, that we could be major league baseball players. After all, major league players were not genetic freaks, or huge - they looked like our dads.
Those days are gone. The truth is out.
My baseball career ended at about age 15. I batted against an 18 year old junior legion pitcher, David Wickersham from the Erie, Pa area, who went on to play 10 years of major league ball as a pitcher. I had two at bats, grounded out and flied out, proud that he didn't wipe me out.)(knowing when ro quit is a positive personal characteristic.)
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/10/2022 9:21:55 AM (No. 1300425)
I suspect more than a few empty seats are creditable to the labor issues MLB faced this Spring, and the usual whine about the overpaid ballplayers and the cost to attend a game in person. How many proudly posted they would never attend another MLB game for this or that reason. I don't recall one pointing to the re-naming of the team, which was indeed stupid and petty. I suspect another reason might be downtown crime there days. Not to mention several early season rainouts.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 10/10/2022 9:55:43 AM (No. 1300447)
I saw a number of Cleveland fans wearing Cleveland Indians jerseys at a game on the MLB network when that network was showing replays of a game. The Guardians just doesn't make any sense. I understand that there was a Cleveland team named the Guardians years ago, but whenever I see the uniforms, it just doesn't look right to me. We still have the movie with the WILD THING and the fans wearing headdresses.
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"If naming a team after someone is an insult, Boeing should sue the Jets." -- Best line I've seen or heard anywhere on the naming controversy (and I'm a Jets fan, thought I quit watching the NFL when the kneeling began).
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/10/2022 11:47:01 AM (No. 1300539)
My favorite football fight song is Hail to the Redskins. Being naïve I didn't buy any Redskins or Indians memorabilia until it was too late. If I could I'd wear it everywhere.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
K620 10/10/2022 6:58:52 PM (No. 1300898)
Sorry to disagree, #19, but . . . Rocky Top! (Annoys the bejeezus out of everyone and we love it!).
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My wife is Mescalero Apache. Born on the reservation. We live next door (really the same town) in Ruidosso NM.
Our school teams (which are majority Apache, mind you) were the “Braves” and the “Warriors” and various iterations of the same depending if middle school or HS.
The Apache used a rip off of the Washington Redskin logo for decades.
Either in, or just lost, the Apache-dominated school district was in a lawsuit with the white elite liberals in Sante Fe who have taken over our state bc the whites say the Apache are racist against indigenous New Mexicans. (The Zuni and other big tribes are welfare queens and just thank the Great White Masters for their crumbs. Apache had a ski lodge, casino, and are very active oil and had industry— if Biden hadn’t shut it all down like an idiot. Thousands of sections in the Permian Basin.!)
Anyway, we’re still selling the old stuff locally. We don’t care.
As an aside, sounds like the “Cleveland Indians”’is an abandoned trade name. Go make shirts and sell them. Same with the washingmachine communists.
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"We must remove all masculinity that might stand up against our take over. Try to take their guns away. Take away sports. Remove all signs of competition or winning. Kill off their young military men with multiple vaccines. Gut the American culture!"
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 10/11/2022 8:25:26 AM (No. 1301183)
The reason why the left went after sports is because they were that loser who got hit in the face with the dodgeball during high school gym class then dumped in the locker room full trash can or stuffed in a locker. They were the very last to be picked for any team as a kid and were left hiding during hide and seek.. Also because they basically have the athletic ability of a slug. So now being woke pin headed adults we get ridiculous team names like the Washington Commanders of the Army and the Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Shells 10/11/2022 8:51:07 AM (No. 1301207)
The reason they’ve gone after sports is because men - REAL men who can fight back - are the main thing standing in the way of their complete control.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/11/2022 9:04:03 AM (No. 1301219)
What a boatload of bull shtuff.
Just like calling he Redskins, Commanders.
Bring back the real names and stop the Bull.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/11/2022 9:18:23 AM (No. 1301238)
Atlanta Braves owners, try and make your fans dispense with the tomahawk chop. Fat chance. Right, Braves owners?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trapper 10/11/2022 9:19:11 AM (No. 1301241)
The Left went after sports because it is the most glaringly obvious example of the direct connection between hard work and success. You don't have to be the smartest. You don't even have to be the most talented. If you put in the time, even in the off season, to work constantly toward excellence in your position, you WILL do better than those who do not. Period. And it applies to every job and profession. Sports shines a flood light on the lies of the entire woke equity critical-race excuse-for-failure industry.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/11/2022 11:18:04 AM (No. 1301407)
Here's the secret to all this woke nonsense...WE the people will NOT use their change of names...it's always going to be the Cleveland Indians...and Columbus Day is Columbus Day...even though Pochontas was on the tube screaming about her native heritage...which is non/existence...they are such fools...the democrats and the woke crowd have crossed the line.....and America is not buying what they demand....and while WE're at it...WE are in a recession...changing the term doesn't change the gas prices...and food prices...
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Why? Because sports and gaming are the last frontiers for independent thinking and masculinity and the Left just cannot stand that.
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