Not sure if I'm misunderstanding Bill Madden's sense of humor when he uses the word "pesky." Or it may be the headline editor.
The Rays are the reigning AL Champs, of course. "Pesky" is the adjective the Yankees PR department used to describe the Mariners in the late '70s.
On another note, old people are funny:
"So now it’s going to be the Cleveland Guardians, named after the iconic Guardians of Traffic statue just outside their ballpark on the Hope Memorial Bridge. Easy enough to replace the 'Ind' with 'Guard' in front of 'ians' on the front of their uniforms. With such a generic, harmless new name, perhaps the Cleveland franchise, which has been the Indians since 1915, can go another 100 years without having to change nicknames again."
Yeah, I prefer nicknames that are ... harmful?
The English language has lots of words.
MLB only has 30 teams.
Unless you're trying hard to be pointlessly insensitive or harmful, there is no reason to insult anyone with a team nickname.
The discomfort some people feel because their culture is slipping away? That's proper.
The culture shouldn't stagnate to satisfy curmudgeons who write baseball articles as if they're intoxicated.
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