[uruguru]

None of this has anything to do with copyright law, guys. You can call the teams whatever you want and no one can stop you. But the Cleveland MLB team is not a public entity and they can use the MLB licensing arrangement as leverage to ensure games representing their team meet their guidelines. They have already done this and there's nothing anyone in this forum can do about it if they want to do more.

And yes, OOTP could absolutely be modified by the devs to prevent you from using certain words and phrases in team names if MLB wanted to flex their muscle over it. If faced with banning a few names or losing their MLB license, of course they would ban the names and just start censoring players who constantly gripe about it.

So all I'm saying is that we (as OOTP players) shouldn't be openly encouraging people to change things in their OOTP saves that might raise the ire of a corporate entity that has already shown the willingness to tell the OOTP devs what they can or can't put in their game.

That's it. Common sense, guys.