Cleveland Guardians' launch starts with store sign crashing to sidewalk

[Auggie]

CLEVELAND (AP) _ A special opening day for the newly named Cleveland Guardians began with a bang.

Not the one they hoped for, either.

As fans were buying the first available Guardians merchandise on Friday as the team officially transitioned from Indians after 106 years, a sign installed outside the team store at Progressive Field broke free from its mount and crashed to the sidewalk.

"Well, that's an ominous sign,'' yelled one onlooker.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32667138/cleveland-guardians-launch-starts-store-sign-crashing-sidewalk

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[Botany]

1. That is so Cleveland

The curse lives

[marble falls]

2. It's all been fucked up since the Browns left Muny. But I still love Cleveland. I mean, I ...

... get it - Chief Wahoo had to go. But the "Guardians".

[Lucky Luciano]

4. Well it still ends with "dians" I guess!

[PittBlue]

3. We moved to Cleveland in May...

It is a beautiful city and we love it! Better than SW Pennsylvania and all the trumpers.

[Capt. America]

5. Willkommen! I too am not a born Clevelander (Illinois) but I have grown to love the city...but the

sports teams will hurt you....my advice, become a Buckeyes fan.

[PittBlue]

6. Thanks...

We love living here. We are life long Steelers fans but we have embraced the Browns and I love Baker Mayfield. We are graduates of the University of Pittsburgh but we always cheer for Ohio State especially when the play Penn State!