New name, new start, new season for the Cleveland Guardians

The newest thing about Cleveland’s baseball team is the 500-lb gorilla in the middle of the diamond. That would be the name, Guardians. The players who will open the season have accepted it. Or least they’ve been well rehearsed in voicing their acceptance.

With the Cleveland Guardians season home opener a couple of weeks away, workers from Brilliant Electric Sign Company install the final piece of the script Guardians sign over the scoreboard at Progressive Field.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland’s baseball team has not made the smoothest transition from one name to another.

Truth be told, the people who run the Guardians, known as the Indians from 1915 through last September, didn’t expect the rollout to take place on a freshly-paved five-lane highway. But even they couldn’t have foreseen the pothole known as MLB’s 99-day lockout that caused the rescheduling of opening day and shortened spring training to seemingly a long weekend in the sunshine of Arizona and Florida.

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