At the Cleveland Indians’ press conference Friday morning officially announcing the 2019 All-Star game, the Chief Wahoo logo came up.

No surprise there. Wahoo was a black mark on the Indians’ otherwise heroic 2016 playoff run. Its endurance is the object of national scorn and derision. If it were still around in 2019, locals can expect considerably more and angrier coverage.

Amid the 2016 World Series media frenzy, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that he and the Indians’ ownership had agreed to meet to discuss Chief Wahoo. Scene was unable to attend this morning’s press conference, but reporters there reported that the meeting happened last Friday. No decisions have been made.

“I think we’ll produce a result that will be good for the Indians and good for baseball,” Manfred said (via the PD’s Paul Hoynes). “What exactly that is, I don’t want to speculate.”

This article appears in Jan 25-31, 2017.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

3 replies on “MLB Commish Met with Paul Dolan about Wahoo, but “Nothing New to Report””

  2. I really could not care less about professional sports, baseball, or any of our 3 tax sink pro teams, but I do support the continued existence of Chief Wahoo, if only to enjoy the continued consternation of the writers of the Cleveland Scene.

  3. SCENE needs to start a Go Fund Me drive so that they can buy the franchise, with the avowed purpose of de-Chiefing the Tribe organization…and maybe even changing the name, as well as the logo.

    With luck, they might be able to get enough contributions from Clevelanders to actually buy a pair of Indians season tickets.

    Chuckles the Clown

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