2019/2020 Cleveland Indians

[Can_of_corn]

8 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

If they ever have a sign stealing scandal, they could blame it on their Spidey senses.

With the extra arms he could be great at sending signs to the players.

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm not sure what they're kicking around but the Spiders seems to be somewhat popular.  

I'm envisioning dozens of anesthetized hobbits wrapped in spider webs, hanging from the various inside passageways of whatever they're calling Jacobs Field nowadays.  And a giant spider terrorizing the fans, jumping out from dark passages, stealing their children.

Give-away promotions of tarantulas in little cages every time the attendance surpasses the 1899 total of 6,088.  Big celebration every year when they get to their 21st win.

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, OFFNY said:

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It would be interesting if they starting calling themselves the "Napoleons/Naps" again, which they were known as for 12 seasons between 1903 and 1914.

 

Nap Lajoie lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Louis Sockalexis

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It was less risky to name the team after a popular player back when everyone was signed to an infinite year contract at whatever the team wanted to pay.

[Moose Milligan]

Jeff Passan's take 

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30516592/why-cleveland-indians-name-change-half-century-overdue

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For those who believe modern society has grown soft and that's why Cleveland's baseball team no longer will be called the Indians in the near future, a quick history lesson.

In 1972, the athletic teams at Stanford, one of the preeminent schools in the United States, were known as the Indians. Following the objections of a group of Native American students, university ombudswoman Lois Amsterdam supported them in a blistering critique: "Sensitivity and awareness do not come easily when childish misrepresentations in games, history books and motion pictures make up a large part of our experience." The university president concurred. And like that, however noble the original intentions of the nickname may have been, however strong the association between fans and the name was, the Stanford Indians were no more.

 

[ArtVanDelay]

If they choose anything other than Cleveland Spiders, they deserve another 75 years without a title.  

[OFFNY]

On 12/14/2020 at 2:58 PM, DrungoHazewood said:

 

It was less risky to name the team after a popular player back when everyone was signed to an infinite year contract at whatever the team wanted to pay.

 

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And as you once pointed out, certain nicknames that might get you a punched in the nose if you used them with somebody today were acceptable back then.

 

William "Dummy" Hoy

 

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