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[204/365] Cleveland Guardians
Jul. 23rd, 2021 08:51 pmI like the article I saw linked on social media that told me what Cleveland's baseball team is changing its name to.
It kind of feels like an announcement that a trans person has changed their name -- it's not a great analogy, since most people don't have such racist names, but it's what came to mind when I noted, approvingly, how the article talks about the baseball team while almost never using it directly. It's called "the racially offensive name," "[the team's] old moniker," "the baseball club" and "the franchise". The old (well, still current) name only appears once, in quotes. The Washington Football Team is mentioned as a similar example of a team getting rid of a racist name, and their old name isn't mentioned at all (it's a worse name though, unequivocally white-supremacist).
But the best thing about that article is at the very end: the team "was known as the Cleveland Naps from 1903 to 1914 in reference to player-manager Nap Lajoie. It was changed to the current name after Lajoie was traded."
The Cleveland Naps! What a good name! I'd buy some of their merch, even if they are AL Central rivals! I love naps.
It kind of feels like an announcement that a trans person has changed their name -- it's not a great analogy, since most people don't have such racist names, but it's what came to mind when I noted, approvingly, how the article talks about the baseball team while almost never using it directly. It's called "the racially offensive name," "[the team's] old moniker," "the baseball club" and "the franchise". The old (well, still current) name only appears once, in quotes. The Washington Football Team is mentioned as a similar example of a team getting rid of a racist name, and their old name isn't mentioned at all (it's a worse name though, unequivocally white-supremacist).
But the best thing about that article is at the very end: the team "was known as the Cleveland Naps from 1903 to 1914 in reference to player-manager Nap Lajoie. It was changed to the current name after Lajoie was traded."
The Cleveland Naps! What a good name! I'd buy some of their merch, even if they are AL Central rivals! I love naps.