The baseball franchise in Cleveland has been known as the "Indians" since 1915, and while there's been some unrest about the name over the past few decades, the team has always stuck with their long term name. Now that may change as Friday the team announced they are exploring options to change the name of the franchise
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00:00Hi everyone, I'm Matt Lodi on Cleveland Baseball Insider here on SI.com.
00:05Well, since 1915, the baseball franchise in Cleveland has been known as the Indians.
00:10There's been some unrest about that team name now for the last few decades, but the tribe has always held strong with the Indians name.
00:17Now that all may change.
00:19Friday evening, after a report from The Athletic came out from Ken Rosenthal and Zach Meisel,
00:23the Indians tweeted out that they are exploring possibly changing their nickname.
00:28If you remember, the Indians took away Chief Wahoo two seasons ago,
00:32and now they possibly could be taking away the whole Indians name as it stands.
00:36Of course, there's going to be plenty of debate on if this is a good move or bad for the tribe,
00:41and of course, they're going to have to come up with a brand new name for this organization if they should go in this direction.
00:47This move also comes on the heels of the National Football League's Washington Redskins announcing on Friday
00:52that they too are looking into possibly changing their name.
00:55According to reports, there's been no pressure from Major League Baseball right now for the Indians to change the name,
01:00but at the same time, they probably would like to see it happen sooner rather than later.
01:05For Cleveland Baseball Insider on SI.com, I'm Matt Lodi.