Official Cleveland Guardians Thread

That is just hilariously awful. Naming your team after a statue on a bridge?

 

Here's their first draft at a new logo that got turned down.

 

Name is fine. Logo is bad tho

 

Did they disclose what other names they were considering (besides the Steamers, of course)?

 

Great question Ted!

 

Spiders and Guardians were the final 2

 

Sad!

 

Name is now ok. Logo is still terrible.

 

It'd be fine with a better logo. Should have just done a cool ass animal though.

 

Sounds like they came close to doing something great and then blew it. Not unlike the team itself, really.

 

not sure how the name having a connection to the city makes it better when that connection is in reference to a statue on a bridge to watch over people driving

 

most names today would get ridiculed if just announced on social media. Guardians is totally normal name

 

I can tell you I wouldn’t be sad if I were to see that something tragic happened to Aubrey Huff one day soon

 

i am sure the bally sports stuff is the main factor as evidenced by him considering the reds who's games are shown on bally sports as well

 

I noticed that as well.

 

I think Spiders would have been pretty universally liked.

 

Congrats on aligning yourself with Aubrey Huff, Ted Cruz and Zach Smith

 

She covers the Yankees, dump

 

The Cleveland Waze.

 

the more I think about it the more a statue that watches people drive out of Cleveland seems appropriate

 

agreed that they could have done better.

 

Apparently, the bridge crosses the Cuyahoga and basically leads right to their ballpark. So, that’s cool.

 

8 statues.

 

^^^guess I wasn’t the only one that thought that could happen

 

I feel like this is actually an ode to the greatest baseball movie actor of our lifetime, Kevin Costner, and his seminal work The Guardian. I don't buy the bridge stuff.

 

fify

 

Seeing a lot of these takes on social media today

 

No problem with changing the name, but a whiff on the choice.

 

Cleveland Baseball Team would have been vastly superior

 

I think you missed my point. Rebranding itself is not the evil, it's the design. Change it, but have some taste

 

Turrible.

I feel like people making this decision fell in love with the idea of having a relevant connection to the city and lost sight of the concept of having a cool name that fans like.

If there were a statue of a giant apple near the stadium, these people would have been like - guys, we have to do this, there is a statue right down the road! The Cleveland Apples!!!

 

If the Washington Football Team is gonna go in this direction, we're gonna end up with the Washington Beltways or the Washington 495'ers.

 

The name seems weird, but coming up with a new sports team name at this stage is probably more challenging than I think it is.

Not really changing the color scheme and making the font look so similar to the current Indians look just seems so dumb, though. If you're finally dropping an offensive name, wouldn't you want to distance yourself as much as possible from that look? Same with the WFT.

 

The Memphis Grizzlies and Utaj Jazz still exist, right? Those names are way dumber than the Cleveland Guardians.