SI's Chris Halicke goes into whether or not the Texas Rangers should consider a name change in light of the protests against police brutality in the United States.
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00:00Yeah, I don't think the Texas Rangers are going to be changing their name anytime soon.
00:05There's not really a public outcry at changing their name.
00:08This really all stemmed from a column in the Chicago Tribune, and while it was a strongly
00:13worded column, it's not really caused an uproar.
00:17It's definitely got people talking about it, but even beforehand, whenever the Texas Ranger
00:23statue was taken down at Dallas Love Field Airport, we were on a conference call with
00:27the team that day and it was even brought up, is the team going to be contemplating
00:32changing their name?
00:34The reaction was pretty much no, and if anything, they weren't even thinking about it.
00:39Now that it's been brought up and it's been put in the press, the team did make an official
00:44statement and they definitely tied their name more to their own heritage rather than the
00:48heritage of the Texas Rangers Police Force.
00:52So I don't think a name change is going to be coming anytime soon, nor do I think it
00:56should.
00:58I do think that if enough people were to cause a stir about it, where the Rangers or Major
01:04League Baseball both would be kind of forced to do so, then maybe they would contemplate
01:08a little bit more.
01:09But ultimately, I don't think this is going to be anything that's going to force the Rangers
01:14to change their name.
01:15Plus, I believe there's other sports teams throughout, not just baseball, but throughout
01:19professional sports in general, that have to do with...
01:22There are other nicknames that probably have to be dealt with before Texas Rangers is dealt
01:26with.
01:27But this is what's being talked about in the news right now, obviously, racial injustice
01:32and police brutality.
01:33So that does bring the Texas Rangers name into play.
01:36However, I think that there's other names that would have to be addressed before the
01:40Rangers would really have to end up making any kind of a decision.
01:43But I don't think that that's likely.