THEY WERE THE SPIDERS?!
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The Spiders were the major league team in Cleveland in late 1800’s but disbanded after their owners left them with no good players & they only won 20 games in a season. CLE were called Rustlers, had been minor leagues & got promoted. Negro leagues Cleveland team was the Buckeyespic.twitter.com/bMHdpdpPoM
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They’ll probably change it to the Cleveland Redskins.
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Cleveland native and cartoonist Derf has been hammering away at the offensive, racist caricature for decades. In the 90s he imagined the reaction from Christian groups if "Chief Wahoo" was, instead, a caricature of Jesus Christ…https://twitter.com/DerfBackderf/status/1279125044246036480?s=20 …
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That is an absolutely nuclear cartoon, brilliant
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Not sure if it’s as bad as the Redskins or the Braves, but if we’re asking them to change, the Indians probably should as well.
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I think it’s worse than the braves but not as bad as the redskins? But that’s really a rearranging deck chairs on the titanic type comparison
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And go to whoever designed Gritty to make the new mascot.
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