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The Indians are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. And they're not even doing it right now

In the official news release to announce that it will eventually change its racist name, the Cleveland baseball team spelled the name of the city wrong and used the word “process” three times in the first three sentences.

One of those things is just silly fodder for Twitter dunks — somewhere between schadenfreude and karma, depending on how you feel about the people involved. But the other — the harping on “process” — is indicative of how the team wants credit for moving forward without actually getting anywhere different.

The Indians — and they are still the Indians, we’ll get to that — are going to change their name, they announced Monday.