Cleveland to change its name to Guardians

[bean5302]

9 hours ago, Nine of twelve said:

In this day and age it's extremely difficult to find a mascot name that is not in use elsewhere in professional or major college sports. Selecting a name in use elsewhere would involve lots of copyright infringement issues and so forth, which is why a completely new name is desirable for team ownership and management. This is how names such as MIghty Mussels and Wind Surge and the like come about. Given that constraint, Guardians is probably about the best--or least bad--that could be hoped for.

Or, you know, they could have paid the squatters for the naming rights to avoid calling themselves "Guardians" 

[RpR]

Since Minnesota was populated with huge German population, not Scandinavian, the Twins should change their name to the Huns.?

[Monkeypaws]

Guardians sounds weird at first, but it is better than goofy names like Heat, Avalanche, and yes, Wild. Team names should be easily made plural with the addition of an s.

An improvement to be sure.

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 hours ago, notoriousgod71 said:

It will take at least a generation for people to stop calling them that. I don't know any actual UND fans that call them whatever they're called now.

Does that make the effort less worthy?

[MMMordabito]

22 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Ownership can save money by keeping the ‘ians’ signage in their stadium and replace the ‘ind’ at the beginning. 

Why not double down and send Chief Wahoo to wardrobe for some winged ears, a leafy crown and a toga? At least let him keep his sh!t-eatin' grin though.

[Dave The Dastardly]

10 hours ago, RpR said:

Since Minnesota was populated with huge German population, not Scandinavian, the Twins should change their name to the Huns.?

Since Minnesota is the state with the largest boat ownership per capita the Twins could change their name to Minnesota Boaters. Don't know if that would float though... PR people might have to stroke it a little to avoid a snag. Be a helluva anchor if it flops...

[bean5302]

14 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Does that make the effort less worthy?

Not at all. With the name change, the team will be worth more because they'll maintain corporate sponsors.

[LaBombo]

On 7/23/2021 at 12:47 PM, Nine of twelve said:

In this day and age it's extremely difficult to find a mascot name that is not in use elsewhere in professional or major college sports. Selecting a name in use elsewhere would involve lots of copyright infringement issues and so forth, which is why a completely new name is desirable for team ownership and management. This is how names such as MIghty Mussels and Wind Surge and the like come about. Given that constraint, Guardians is probably about the best--or least bad--that could be hoped for.

Truer words...

 

Here's hoping the domain rights alone cost them a Shane Bieber extension...

[Otto von Ballpark]

On 7/26/2021 at 4:33 PM, LaBombo said:

Here's hoping the domain rights alone cost them a Shane Bieber extension...

Here's an interesting read on MLB domain names from a few years ago (with a Twins twist!):

http://grantland.com/features/the-website-mlb-couldnt-buy/

The most recent purchase was $375k in 2015 for rangers.com -- I think even Cleveland could afford that.  guardians.com is currently advertised for sale, even if the roller derby guys cling tightly to clevelandguardians.com

I wonder if these domains are slightly less valuable now too, if fewer people directly type addresses with more/easier search options available. (They all get redirected to MLB.com subdomains anyway.)

[IndianaTwin]

Will the marketing slogan for the Cleveland Gardyans be “We battle our tails off”?