Politics leads to strange statements. Back on July 25, 2021 I blogged about how After over a century, the Cleveland Indians are changing their name to the Guardians. That topic just came up again, when on April 26, 2022 Donald J. Trump commented that:
“Anybody who changes the name of the ‘storied’ Cleveland Indians (from 1916), an original baseball franchise, to the Cleveland Guardians, is not fit to serve in the United States Senate. Such is the case for Matt Dolan, who I don’t know, have never met, and may be a very nice guy, but the team will always remain the Cleveland Indians to me!”
Trump was trying to shoot down Mr. Dolan. But on April 29, 2022 there is an article by Natalie Allison at Politico titled Republican who refuses to bend the knee to Trump surges in Ohio Senate race.
Clevelanders with long memories will recall that back on February 15, 1983 Trump had tried to buy the Indians. This was discussed by Arthur Weinstein at The Sporting News in an article on March 6, 2016 titled Donald Trump once tried to buy Cleveland Indians for $13 million. Really. His bid later was raised to $34 million, but it was turned down because he would not guarantee keeping them in Cleveland for more than three years (reportedly planning a move to Tampa).
The Guardians logo came from Wikimedia Commons.
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