When people first started asking me what I thought about Cleveland retiring the name “Indians,” without hesitation I said, “I don’t root for them because of the name.”
I meant it.
I’m not from Cleveland, so it has nothing to do with the city for me, either.
To be completely honest with you, I saw the movie “Major League” when I was far too young and that was when I first started gravitating toward them. It probably sounds like a bizarre beginning, but not everyone has a story about how their dad took them to Jacobs Field as a kid.