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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, October 13, 2021Chicago Cubs hire Cleveland Guardians executive Carter Hawkins as their new general manager
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Posted: October 13, 2021 at 08:39 PM | 22 comment(s)
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1. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: October 14, 2021 at 08:30 AM (#6046221)Hard to really have a strong opinion on this honestly. Though it does seem like coming from the Rays is a better background than the Cleve. Though both of those orgs have plenty of experience being cheap, which also has to be a draw for the current Cubs org.
Maybe it'll turn out to be an important hire, but on its face, it's such an unimportant role that Hoyer didn't even bother to fill it for a year.
Some writers, maybe some papers, made the perfectly sensible decision to start using the new name immediately. If one were concerned that the old name caused offense, why keep using it? They could have dropped the team name altogether ... not many people are going to seriously wonder "from the MLB team?"
And look how well that turned out!
The team website still says Indians. I don’t know when they’ll officially make the changeover.
(And don't talk to me about statues near freeways. Also very dumb.)
So, when you say roots, you mean, a separate franchise 120 years ago used that generic non, even thought it doesn't really have any more connection to the city of Cleveland than anywhere else. As opposed to the name of the figures 300 yards outside Jacobs Field.
Guardians is an excellent name.
Plus, I think Guardians is just a really good name. It's different, it has a local connection and hell the namesake is the opening shot of one of the best baseball movies ever.
this
I thought it was slightly less awful when I learned that there was a local connection--the Guardians are a local landmark. Not the greatest, but non-arbitrary.
They're not just a local landmark. They're located just outside the ballpark.
It's an excellent name. I'm not saying they couldn't have done better (I would have loved to see them break from the place name/nickname convention that every single franchise in the four traditional NA team sports employs*), but it's vastly better than going the uninspired route of recycling Spiders.
* Although I recognize that's a (Hope Memorial) Bridge too far for most everyone else.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your 2022 Cleveland Progressives!
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