Cleveland Guardians of Traffic? Will they be collecting tolls?

Same team. New name.

The MLB team in Cleveland, Ohio will be called the Guardians starting next season.

Cleveland changing name from Indians to Guardians after 2021 season espn.com/mlb

Team owner Paul Dolan ...

"'Guardians' reflects those attributes that define us while drawing on the iconic Guardians of Traffic just outside the ballpark on the Hope Memorial Bridge.

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Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hope-memorial-bridge

The HOPE MEMORIAL BRIDGE, originally the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, opened in 1932. The second of the major high-level spans that cross the CUYAHOGA RIVER in downtown Cleveland, it was preceded by the DETROIT-SUPERIOR BRIDGE in 1918.

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Will security guards and/or toll takers be outraged? What then? As the late heavyweight champion Joe Louis said about 1941 challenger Billy Conn: "He can run, but he can't hide."