This morning, the Major League Baseball team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians officially changed its name to the Cleveland Guardians. The new moniker was announced via video narrated by none other than Tom Hanks and featuring the tunes of The Black Keys.
Together, we are all… pic.twitter.com/R5FnT4kv1I
— Cleveland Indians (@Indians) July 23, 2021
The news immediately went viral on social media, with baseball fans, hotheads, and nut jobs alike chiming in on the non-offensive new name. Twitter in particular had a field day.
Most people either hated the name or were just glad it got changed, even if “a baseball team” might have been a better pick. Others were hoping against hope that the new mascot would be Groot, that odd-looking creature from Guardians of the Galaxy. Whether or not Guardians is a good enough name is an issue where we’ll all have to agree to disagree on – but we can unanimously say that these tweets about the Cleveland Guardians were hilarious.
Cover Photo: Twitter
I think they chose it cause it ends in dians and they can keep the same general font lol https://t.co/Z78tEsxuWY
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) July 23, 2021
Nothing but respect for MY Guardians https://t.co/tCzcc1QOIa pic.twitter.com/v8ecnu8XAA
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) July 23, 2021
If they don’t sing “Let me Groot, Groot, Groot
For the home team” during “Take me out to the ballgame” I’m gonna be furious.#ClevelandGuardians https://t.co/bvOBIzwrKG— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) July 23, 2021
My contribution for today #ClevelandGuardians pic.twitter.com/L8QPF7qzun
— Melanie Newman (@MelanieLynneN) July 23, 2021
Welcome the Cleveland Guardian’s new mascot pic.twitter.com/656Kn2KTqE
— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) July 23, 2021
If they name Groot the mascot, I’m back in. pic.twitter.com/Hwcq16Uz7E
— Josh Edwards (@EdwardsCBS) July 23, 2021
Realistically no matter what name they came up with it probably would’ve gotten roasted but the “Cleveland Guardians” is just objectively bad
— Big Ev (@DoubleVodkaDon) July 23, 2021
Cleveland Guardians sounds like an XFL team name
— Stuart Feiner (@StuartFeiner) July 23, 2021
Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy is still better than Indians.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 23, 2021
I would have chosen Spiders.
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) July 23, 2021
The Cleveland Indians redesigning their logo to the Cleveland Guardians in four steps. pic.twitter.com/UOwjrsToBb
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) July 23, 2021
Naps >>> https://t.co/wzpxI90gSC
— Adi Joseph (@AdiJoseph) July 23, 2021
Don’t act like there’s some perfect word that all you Mad Dad Cleveland fans would have been happy about. You’ll be fine. Everything’s fine. Go Guardians. #MadDads
— Mike Polk Jr. (@mikepolkjr) July 23, 2021
