Cleveland Indians to change team name franchise has used for more than a century

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Cleveland's Major League Baseball franchise has decided to change its team name, moving away from the Indians moniker it has employed for more than 100 years and that is considered insensitive to indigenous peoples. Team owner Paul Dolan has confirmed the news Monday, which was originally reported by David Waldstein and Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times on Sunday night.

 

"We'll be the Indians in 2021 and then after that, it's a difficult and complex process to identify a new name and do all the things you do around activating that name," Dolan told the Associated Press. "We are going to work at as quick a pace as we can while doing it right. But we're not going to do something just for the sake of doing it. We're going to take the time we need to do it right."

 

Dolan added: "It was a learning process for me and I think when fair-minded, open-minded people really look at it, think about it and maybe even spend some time studying it, I like to think they would come to the same conclusion: It's a name that had its time, but this is not the time now, and certainly going forward, the name is no longer acceptable in our world."

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"There is definitely some pain in this, Dolan said. "It's the end of an era or the beginning of an era. But accompanying that is the recognition and maybe even excitement that we're going on to do something that is better. It will be better for the community. It will be better for our team. And it will be something hopefully that unites everybody. It's not anything that we have to feel any kind of reluctance about expressing. It's going to take some time for everybody to embrace but I think when they do, we'll all be better off for it."

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/cleveland-indians-to-change-team-name-franchise-has-used-for-more-than-a-century/

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I hear they'll work well with the name "Cleveland Losers"

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Cleveland Native Americans?

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The Cleveland Punjabis...

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Cleveland Grovers.

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