Fans outraged after Cleveland Guardians take jab at Canada in social media post
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But that's no reason that a baseball team should be poking fun at the Great White North.
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After the Cleveland Guardians dispatched the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre, the visitor's social media team decided to take a jab at Canada.
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The post in question simply read, 'America > Canada, objectively.'
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The Guardians deleted this post following their series win against the Blue Jays today pic.twitter.com/HgsjGI5Ig6
— Jake Ferraro (@18Jxxx18) May 4, 2025
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While social media staffers for sports teams often tend to get cheeky with their content, many fans of both the Guardians and Blue Jays felt this was too much.
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'Not how Cleveland fans like to represent ourselves at all,' one fan replied. 'Worked hard and put up with a lot of s*** over the decades to not be in this kind of position.
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Many social media users pointed out that while some playful banter is fine most of the time, the current political climate between the two nations makes this a hot-button issue.
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'Really dumb time to post that,' one user wrote.
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'I'm normally all for the friendly Canada slander, but maybe not right now,' another posted.
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One user on Reddit wrote that it was 'probably for the best' that the post was deleted given that 'it was in poor taste given the current political climate.'
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It also was noted by another user on X that no other MLB team has fielded more Canadian players over the past three years than the Guardians.
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Over the last 3 years the Cleveland Guardians have employed 5 different Canadians
Josh Naylor
Bo Naylor
Cade Smith
Cal Quantrill
Erik Sabrowski
No other team has fielded more Canadians over the last 3 years. Another poorly thought out caption from the worst admin in the league
— Daulton Varsho Enjoyer (@bichette_mvp) May 4, 2025
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