Next, to take out that team name.

Where does the Owlbear, future Cleveland baseball mascot, rank?

Bad take! I’m here for EVEN MORE dinosaur team names! And dino-adjacent names, like the Toledo Pterosaurs (the P is silent).

Over here in Ohio, watching Cleveland do the exact opposite... letting go affordable All-Stars for change, if anything at all (Brantley, Gomes).  

And they still don’t understand how a team named “The Redskins” is a bad look.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo SCRABBLE

I thought he may have been ON Eddie Murray’s team, thus rendering strikeouts impossible, for a year. Seems they were off by one season... shame.

When you don’t know Photoshop well enough to avoid artifacts

“They’re coming to take our guns!”

“Out of the woodwork”? They never left.

A good step, and now onto actually changing the name itself. It’s still marginalizing to the diverse swath of people to group them into a singular sports mascot.

Sitting here waiting for the Cleveland Indians to see the truth of the Cleveland Owlbears brand...

Can you kneel on ice?
Like, can you?

Nobody ever wants to own up to being wrong, ever. Let alone if you’re one of a million people in the area you can hide within. If the team changes, nobody’s going to abandon ship and root for... what... Pittsburgh? Detroit? Cinci? Nah. Clevelanders will love their team even if they choose a less obviously racist…

Middle ground between being REALLY RACIST and not being racist is “still being pretty racist”. Good job on that one, team.

Remember the Cleveland Owlbears, everybody!

No mention of NHLs ‘94 or ‘95?
No Mutant League Football??
No Blood Bowl?

I don’t even know what to say to you at this juncture.

Where’s the love for the historic greatness of Iman Shumpert’s stylings?

Tell it to Kenny Lofton

#ClevelandOwlbears - a fierce but friendly mascot/re-brand

I’m hoping the powerful symbol of the Owlbear can take off...