The Cleveland Guardians roller derby team has filed a federal lawsuit to stop Cleveland’s baseball team from rebranding as the Guardians, as first reported by WKYC.
The suit wishes to stop the renaming of the baseball team to the Guardians on the grounds that there cannot be two sports teams with the same name in the same city, and that Major League Baseball would never allow the reverse to happen.
Two sports teams in the same city cannot have identical names. Major League Baseball would never permit “Chicago Cubs” lacrosse or “New York Yankees” rugby teams to operate alongside its storied baseball clubs and rightly so.