{"id":48688,"date":"2021-07-24T21:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48688"},"modified":"2021-07-24T21:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:09:42","slug":"cleveland-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48688","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland … Guardians?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

OK. I am fine with the Washington Football Team of the National Football League jettisoning the name it used to call itself: the Redskins.<\/p>\n

But, something inside my old man’s body tells me the Cleveland Indians’ decision to change its name to Guardians<\/em> is a step too far into the realm of political correctness.<\/p>\n

The Washington Football Team’s former name clearly had been interpreted as a slur against Native Americans. Old-time western cowboys would use the term as an epithet against Indians.<\/p>\n

However, to change the name of one of Major League Baseball’s more storied franchises to the Guardians? I don’t get where this is going or where it might go.<\/p>\n

As a friend of mine noted earlier today on social media, a Native American suited up for the Cleveland team many decades, becoming the first indigenous American to play big-league baseball. Thus, it is believed the Indians named the team in his honor.<\/p>\n

Maybe I shouldn’t tread onto this ground, given that I am the grandson of immigrants from southern Europe. I don’t understand how a Native American might feel about an MLB team named the Indians. It’s just that to my eyes and ears the team nickname has a decidedly neutral<\/em> sound to it, unlike the former name of the NFL team that plays tackle football in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

How many more teams are going to succumb to the pressure that continues to mount?<\/p>\n

Sigh …<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com OK. I am fine with the Washington Football Team of the National Football League jettisoning the name it used to call itself: the Redskins. But, something inside my old man’s body tells me the Cleveland Indians’ decision to change its name to Guardians is a step too far into the … Continue reading Cleveland … Guardians?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3105,3302,3871],"class_list":["post-48688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-mlb","tag-nfl","tag-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48690,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions\/48690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}