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The roller derby team and protentional legal issues were noted during the rollout earlier this year, and reiterated today.

https://fox8.com/sports/there-cannot-be-two-cleveland-guardians-teams-in-cleveland-roller-derby-team-sues-baseball-franchise/

 

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The roller derby team told the baseball team they would be willing to sell the rights, the suit states but did not feel they were offered a fair amount for them.

After the derby team sent back a counteroffer, the suit claims the baseball team used a very similar “Winged G” logo that the Cleveland Guardians Roller Derby team had sent them when responding to the request about intellectual property.

Expecting Manfred to chime in and state the team will now be named the Savages, Redskins, or some other name that he will claim Native American groups in the area are fine with, matching his comments yesterday regarding alleged Native American support for the Braves and "The Chop"

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Guardians is a horrible name to begin with, just go with the Cleveland Mistakes.

Seriously, if they can't use the Guardians due to legal issues, I think the Cleveland Lakers would work, makes more sense than the Los Angeles Lakers who brought that name with them when they moved from Minneapolis in 1960.

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19 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:

The roller derby team and protentional legal issues were noted during the rollout earlier this year, and reiterated today.

https://fox8.com/sports/there-cannot-be-two-cleveland-guardians-teams-in-cleveland-roller-derby-team-sues-baseball-franchise/

 

Expecting Manfred to chime in and state the team will now be named the Savages, Redskins, or some other name that he will claim Native American groups in the area are fine with, matching his comments yesterday regarding alleged Native American support for the Braves and "The Chop"

The Chop is awesome.

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50 minutes ago, KrankinSox said:

The Chop is awesome.

My hate for the Chop & Chant has nothing to do with Native Americanism. Great for the Florida State Seminoles - sucks for a MLB team. This is baseball not college football. 
Terrible towels and shaking pom-poms is somehow different.

 

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4 hours ago, knightni said:

It allows white people the comfort of cartoonish-ly stereotyping Native American chanting.

Does it allow black people to do the same or do only the white fans chop? 

Mods, are we seriously allowing this racism? This poster is categorizing an entire race of people.

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17 minutes ago, KrankinSox said:

Does it allow black people to do the same or do only the white fans chop? 

The team intentionally moved to a 89% white area, with no public transportation, similar to if the Sox moved to Plainfield in Kendall County.

https://www.ibtimes.com/atlanta-braves-move-cobb-county-about-race-not-transportation-1470814

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1 hour ago, South Side Hit Men said:

The team intentionally moved to a 89% white area, with no public transportation, similar to if the Sox moved to Plainfield in Kendall County.

https://www.ibtimes.com/atlanta-braves-move-cobb-county-about-race-not-transportation-1470814

Did the fans only start to chop once the team moved to a "white area"? Do the black and Hispanic fans not chop? 

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7 minutes ago, KrankinSox said:

Is the Bears move to AH about race too? What a joke.

Nah, the joke is your faux outrage in this thread and claiming this trashy chant entering it's 4th decade is "awesome".

It's an embarrassment to the sport, and just another example of why baseball, a great game, continues to lose interest and audience year after year. Young and diverse people MLB gives lip service to trying to attract to stave off dying interest in this sport cringe when they witness this shit. There are no positive connotations continuing with this garbage, same as waving a confederate flag at an auto race.

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