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Swift wrote:We could always go back to being the Cleveland Spiders.

geonuc wrote:

Swift wrote:We could always go back to being the Cleveland Spiders.

That's a big no. How about the Cleveland Rockers?

geonuc wrote:

Swift wrote:We could always go back to being the Cleveland Spiders.

That's a big no. How about the Cleveland Rockers?

Thumper wrote:The Cleveland "Rush Fans."

geonuc wrote:What else is Cleveland known for? How about the Cleveland River Fires?

SciFiFisher wrote:You guys caught an entire river on fire? You should be proud of your achievements! How many other cities can say they caught a river on fire?

The best example of an urban river’s recovery is the Cuyahoga, in Cleveland. The city was shocked into cleaning up the river after it caught fire in 1969. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote, on the 40th anniversary of the fire:
the Cuyahoga has become a river teeming with fish and other aquatic species. And how more and more people in Northeast Ohio are using the Cuyahoga as a playground as it runs its 100-mile, U-shaped course from rural Geauga County down through Akron and back north to Cleveland. The Cuyahoga has come a long way from the waterway that a Cleveland mayor in the 1880s (Rensselaer R. Herrick) described as “a sewer that runs through the heart of the city.”

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: On June 22, 1969, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. Well, technically, oil and debris floating on the surface of the water caught fire — the river, which empties into Lake Erie not far from the site of the blaze, had served for more than a century as a dumping ground for the various industrial companies along its banks. The fire wasn’t even the first one, or the worst — in fact, the infamous photo of a burning Cuyahoga in Time magazine two months later was from a previous fire, in 1952, because the 1969 fire was under control before any photographers could arrive.

But that’s not the end of the joke. Not only did the Cuyahoga catch fire multiple times — as many as 13 times, starting as early as 1868 — but rivers in industrial cities all around the country, including those in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit, had a history of bursting into flame. Pollution in these “industrial streams” began in the days of John D. Rockefeller, right around the time Cleveland residents began complaining about the taste and smell of their drinking water; by the point of the 1969 fire, the city, spurred by activism, had already undertaken cleanup efforts that were often stymied by big business.

Hilarious, right?

Swift wrote:Or even more so, we can make fun of it, but you all can't. Sort of like ethnic jokes - if you are a member of that ethnic group you can tell the joke or use the slur word, but the rest of you can't. Great Lakes Brewery has a beer called Burning River Ale, but the rest of you aren't allowed to make such jokes.

Parrothead wrote:May Game 7 be a close one, no blow out victory.

Thumper wrote:

Parrothead wrote:May Game 7 be a close one, no blow out victory.

Granted, my son.
Quite the series, if you're a fan of the game.