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Indians Owner Expects Chief Wahoo Issue To Be Resolved In A Couple Of Years

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has been waging a rather tepid war against the Cleveland Indians in an attempt to get the team to abandon its racist Chief Wahoo logo. The team has previously been dodgy when asked to elaborate on when and if something might actually be done about the logo, but team owne...

Angry Indians Fans And One Cowboys Fan Shout At Anti-Chief Wahoo Protesters

The Cleveland Indians played their home opener yesterday, and before the game protesters who want the team to ditch its racist Chief Wahoo logo gathered outside of the stadium. Cleveland.com sent a reporter to take some video of the protest, and he came away with plenty of footage of angry white men...

Rob Manfred Continues His Weak Fight Against The Indians' Racist Logo

MLB says Commissioner Rob Manfred “desire[s]” to have the Cleveland Indians “transition away from the Chief Wahoo logo,” and insists that “specific steps” are being taken in conjunction with team executives to find a “positive resolution” to the issue....

Rob Manfred Has Started Meeting With Cleveland Ownership To Discuss Chief Wahoo

During the Cleveland Indians’ postseason run, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hinted that he would speak to the team’s ownership about their horrifically racist logo during the offseason. Now, apparently, he’s followed through and begun that conversation—though the conversation appears to be totally de...

Now Is The Perfect Time For The Indians To Quietly Abandon Chief Wahoo

The Cleveland Indians are World Series losers, and when they report back to their home field on April 3, it should be without their racist logo, once and for all....

This Is The Worst Indians Fan

When cutting to commercial after the end of the top of the seventh inning, Fox cameras found this Indians fan rocking a headdress and combo blackface and redface and lingered on him for a full ten seconds. Perhaps focusing on this sad-looking man in racist cosplay is their version of a silent protes...

Rob Manfred Hints At Meeting With Indians Ownership To Discuss Racist Logo [Update]

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made an appearance on ESPN’s Mike & Mike yesterday to shoot the shit about the World Series. Manfred said he feels good about the elevated level of interest in the historic Indians-Cubs World Series, and is stoked that there are 14 players under the age of 25 playing in ...

Goddammit, Indians Fans

The Cleveland Indians had to know their racist-ass logo would inspire some of their numbnuts fans to show up to the first Indians World Series game since 1997 in headdresses and redface. ...

Cartoon Foresaw Asshole Redface Guy A Decade Ago

As if that dumbass-Indians-fan ordeal couldn't get any more surreal, it turns out one cartoonist depicted almost the exact situation in 2002....

Indians Fan On His Redface: "It's Cleveland Pride"

Remember all that "IIIIIIIIIIII'm probably fucking up here" supposing we did yesterday? Yeah, about that: our redface dude had no problems with his behavior and was actually in the process of setting this Native American straight about his belief that Chief Wahoo is an offensive and racist caricatur...

Cleveland Indians Fan In Redface Meets A Native American

For all the shit we give wrong idiot Dan Snyder, there's really no question that Cleveland's Chief Wahoo is clearly and by far the most ridiculous mascot in sports. A bunch of fans have been "de-chiefing" their gear for a few years now. This guy went the other way. ...

The Indians are polling fans about Chief Wahoo: Amid a larger survey about the gameday experience sent to Indians fans, Cleveland is very curious how Chief Wahoo rates compared to the team's other logos. [Hardball Talk]...