Including the racists on this site.

The statues have been around for nearly a century. They're far more of a Cleveland institution than any "Indians".

I've been there many times & never heard of them.

Should have changed it to the Caucasians

I like to point out to the "buh buh but history!" people, is that the Guardians started out being called The Rustlers. Then became the Lake Shores. And were the Naps. And then The Blue Birds.

They were also at various times the Spiders, Broncos and Forest City.
The Yankees weren't always the Yankees and the Dodgers weren't always the Dodgers.
So why get triggered over a name change, eh?

Why get triggered??? BECAUSE "GUARDIANS" IS A STUPID NAME FOR A BASEBALL TEAM.
THEY SHOULD HAVE PICKED "SPIDERS" AGAIN!!!!!

Calm down. I'm sure the organization didn't enter into this lightly.

What do you expect from a state with "Browns", "Buckeyes", and "Blue Jackets". Their choice couldn't help but be bad.

And the Akron Zips, Kent State Golden Flashes... It's like they're trying to corner the market on stupid names.

Guardians IS a pretty crappy new name.

It's not any different than The Lakers.

Originally the Minneapolis Lakers.

I don't care if they changed it but I never thought of Indians as racist. That was my high school's (and still is) mascot too. I was definitely in favor of getting rid of the Redskins but I suppose I'm just ignorant about what's wrong with the word Indian.

I never noticed that label being used disparagingly, but that may be because I haven't experienced being a Native person.

And that's it exactly.

Finally. It's about time.

And yes, that added bonus is sweet.