{"id":78903,"date":"2022-09-26T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cleveland-guardians-for-photo-showing-players-dressed-as-inmates\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:27:00","slug":"cleveland-guardians-for-photo-showing-players-dressed-as-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cleveland-guardians-for-photo-showing-players-dressed-as-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians for photo showing players dressed as inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball is a game of traditions. One of the typically more fun traditions requires rookie players to dress up in embarrassing costumes on their way to the final road trip of the regular season. Chickens, cheerleaders, superheroes, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
But the theme of this year’s Cleveland Guardians’ rookie dress-up day raised a few eyebrows with some people on social media criticizing the team for posting a photo they considered to be in poor taste.<\/p>\n
The tweet, posted following the team’s three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 22, shows 12 players wearing orange prison jumpsuits, each carrying a ball and chain. Standing next to rookies Gabriel Arias, Will Benson, Oscar Gonzalez, Steven Kwan, Tyler Freeman, Kirk McCarty and Will Brennan, and more experienced players such as Amed Rosario, Nick Sandlin, Eli Morgan, Sam Hentges and Owen Miller are catchers Austin Hedges and Luke Maile, who are dressed as law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing tonight’s contest, Officers Hedges and Maile apprehended (12) of the most wanted rookies in baseball,\u201d the team captioned the photo. \u201cMore information to come, but ladies and gentleman, we got ’em.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post caught the attention of NBC Sports Chicago, which described it as \u201cquestionable\u201d while noting that \u201ctwo white players are dressed up as police officers while the rookies, including several people of color, wore prison jumpsuits and shackles.\u201d The article also asks the reader to \u201cconsider the circumstances that helped push Cleveland to change its name\u201d and suggests the team didn’t live up to the promises it made when the switch to Guardians was announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust when you thought Cleveland couldn’t possibly embarrass the fan base anymore. They step up their game. Well done!! #SMH,\u201d wrote a Twitter user.<\/p>\n
\u201cLove ya but you guys absolutely stink for doing this,\u201d added another, named Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cYep, tasteless,\u201d wrote Michael.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ain’t the adorable hijinks you think it is,\u201d commented Ralph.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most impactful response came from Rebecca Kavanagh, a criminal defense lawyer, legal analyst and writer with more than 81,000 followers.<\/p>\n
\u201cConditions in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail are so horrific that at one point a judge refused to send people there, releasing everyone charged with crimes without bail,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWardens and guards have been criminally prosecuted for beating and killing people. Hard to see the humor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reached by email, a Guardians spokesperson had no comment when asked about the reaction to the photo or if the team considered taking it down.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the team clinched its first playoff appearance as the Guardians and were given a hero’s welcome upon their return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball is a game of traditions. One of the typically more fun traditions requires rookie players to dress up in embarrassing costumes on their way to the final road trip of the regular season. Chickens, cheerleaders, superheroes, that sort of thing. But the theme of this year’s Cleveland Guardians’ rookie dress-up day …<\/p>\n