{"id":273547,"date":"2023-07-03T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=273547"},"modified":"2023-07-03T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:07:43","slug":"jim-edmonds-sparks-controversy-with-comments-on-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=273547","title":{"rendered":"Jim Edmonds Sparks Controversy With Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fox News – Former\u00a0MLB player Jim Edmonds<\/u><\/a>\u00a0was caught in the crossfire of fans on social media Thursday night when, during a live broadcast of a St. Louis Cardinals game, he said he was “shocked” that teams have opted to change their names, referencing the Cleveland Guardians and the Washington Commanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmonds, 53, was in the booth for the Cardinals’ game against the\u00a0Houston Astros<\/u><\/a>\u00a0when, in the bottom of the seventh inning, he shared messages he has received on social media from fans over the recent push for teams to change their names for having Native American monikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You know what\u2019s really funny is when people reach out to you and say \u2018Hey I\u2019m from this area, and we really love our baseball here.’ And somebody else will say, \u2018Yeah, I wish they had the old names that they used to have.\u2019 It\u2019s just funny to hear everyone\u2019s opinion,”\u00a0the Cardinals<\/u><\/a>\u00a0legend said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m still shocked that we\u2019ve changed so much as a whole that [we\u2019re] not allowed to have the Cleveland Indians anymore \u2014\u00a0the Guardians.<\/a>\u00a0And I\u2019m saying that too because my wife is partial Native American Indian.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I always thought it was kind of a cool thing, not a bad thing, to have a team named after the Indians or vice versa, whatever, the Washington Redskins.”<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some came to Edmonds’ defense for sharing his opinion, many called out his comments as problematic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Maybe this finally gets Jim Edmonds off Cardinals games,” one user tweeted at Bally Sports Midwest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another person called him a “horrible hire” and a “garbage human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo provided by Getty<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News – Former\u00a0MLB player Jim Edmonds\u00a0was caught in the crossfire of fans on social media Thursday night when, during a live broadcast of a St. Louis Cardinals game, he said he was “shocked” that teams have opted to change their names, referencing the Cleveland Guardians and the Washington Commanders.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":273548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273551,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273547\/revisions\/273551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}