Nicknames for replacement teams
Gerry Myerson
question as to what to call other replacement ballclubs. The simplest
solution, as applied to, say, the AL West, goes like this;
California Scabs
Oakland Scabs
Seattle Scabs
Texas Scabs
There is precedent for this; about half the teams in the 1914--15 Federal
League were simply known as the Feds. It could lead to some confusion
("in today's home opener, the Scabs beat the Scabs 36 to 7..."), but I
expect no one will care too much. For cities with two teams, we can
distinguish between the Chicago American Scabs and the Chicago National
Scabs.
For those who like a little more creativity in their team names, here's
a starter kit. Feel free to elaborate and/or improve.
LA Codgers
Texas Strangers
St Louis Discards
Colorado Mockies
Minnesota Thins
Chicago Shite Sox
Philadelphia Sillies
The Milwaukee team could be known as the Lites --- Bud's Lites.
Gerry Myerson
Jonathan Bernstein
: The Milwaukee team could be known as the Lites --- Bud's Lites.
The St. Louis Nationals might have dibs.
JHB
Todd Rader
Gerry Myerson <ge...@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>
>For those who like a little more creativity in their team names, here's
>a starter kit. Feel free to elaborate and/or improve.
>
>LA Codgers
>Texas Strangers
>St Louis Discards
>Colorado Mockies
>Minnesota Thins
>Chicago Shite Sox
>Philadelphia Sillies
>
>The Milwaukee team could be known as the Lites --- Bud's Lites.
Oakland Pathetics -- unfortunately, this may also be the name
of the MLB team
Montreal No-Shows (Is Montreal legally barred from fielding a scab
team in the same way that Toronto is?)
New York Mess
Detroit Liars
Cleveland Simians ("A monkey could play this game!")
Seattle Masqueraders
New York Hanky-Pankys
Houston No-Shows (they can fight it out with Montreal for the name)
Okay, so maybe I didn't really improve....
NoHit
-0600 wrote:
>Somewhere in another thread there was a reference to the Subcubs and a
>question as to what to call other replacement ballclubs. [snip]
>For those who like a little more creativity in their team names, here's
>a starter kit. Feel free to elaborate and/or improve.
>LA Codgers
>Texas Strangers
>St Louis Discards
>Colorado Mockies
>Minnesota Thins
>Chicago Shite Sox
>Philadelphia Sillies
>The Milwaukee team could be known as the Lites --- Bud's Lites.
Here are a few more:
Chicago Subs
Boston Beanballs
SF Midgets
Toronto Cow Birds (named for that species of birds which lays eggs in
other birds' nests; they plan to lay theirs in Dunedin, FL this year)
California Mangleds
Seattle Seasicks
Florida Jellyfish
NY Doormats
Atlanta Chickens (or perhaps the Georgia Peanuts)
Of course, my own team, the ORIOLES will go proudly down in history as the
"losingest" team in this scab season, going 0-162 for the regular season
as they forfeit all the scab games.
Nina (No...@aol.com)
Colin Campbell
Boston Blisters
Pittsburg Pustules
Kansas City Carbuncles
Atlanta Hives
Detroit Tumors
Oakland Anthrax
New York Mange (NL)
New York Yaws (AL)
Toronto Bedsores
Philadelphia Fungus
Milwaukee Boils
Cleveland Injuries
Minnesota Twinges
Cincinatti Zits
San Francisco Chancres
San Diego Stigmas
Chicago Cankers
Houston Shingles
Los Angeles Ulcers
Ian Podraza
Baltimore O-for-All's
barnesw@rockvax.rockefeller.edu,Mail
> Chicago Subs
> Boston Beanballs
Considering some of the footage of tryout camps I've seen, I'd suggest the
Boston Beanbags.
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Mary Rose Campbell
WPVI-6 in Philadelphia referred to the replacements as the "Philadelphia
Phillers."
mrc
Jeff Drummond
In article <3i464o$m...@network.ucsd.edu>, ki...@cogsci.ucsd.edu (Jonathan King) writes:
[ deletia ]
> Yup, that sounds about right. Meanwhile, how many Twins are or were
> their own evil twins? Right off hand, I can think of "Butane Bob"
> Kipper (aka "Round Tripper", etc.).
Gosh, where to begin? Much of the Twins pitching staffs of the '80s
comes to mind...
But I think the first truly Evil Twin (tm) (as opposed to a Bad Twin,
a Mediocre Twin, or a Merely Ineffective Twin) was Ron Davis. That
annoying habit of his, where he'd let loose a wild pitch with the
winning or go-ahead run on third, gave a new flavor to the term 'blown
save'. Not as dramatic, perhaps, as giving up a home run; but in
terms of being able to crush the spirit of the fans...
I remember one afternoon when Billy Gardner had given the sign for Davis
(right hand held up high, palm facing the ground; left hand around throat);
the assembled fans began to panic. We'd tried booing, cat-calls, everything.
Finally, in sheer desperation, we gave him a standing O to try to force
the Good Ron Davis to put in an appearance that day. Even more amazing--
it worked! Of course, the next time the Evil Twin was not to be denied.
When contacted by the media about the possibility of scabbing for the
Twins, Davis said that he didn't think the Minnesota fans would ever
forgive or forget him as it was; and he didn't want to risk aggravating
them further.
-Jeff j...@cray.com
--
"The Tao is the center of the diamond,
the good player's treasure,
the bad player's refuge."
-Lao "Lefty" Tzu in _The_Tao_of_Baseball_, Chapter 62.
William Johnson
>
>For those who like a little more creativity in their team names, here's
>a starter kit. Feel free to elaborate and/or improve.
>
>LA Codgers
>Texas Strangers
>St Louis Discards
>Colorado Mockies
Not bad, but I prefer the one below.
>Minnesota Thins
Ditto.
>Chicago Shite Sox
>Philadelphia Sillies
Again.
>>The Milwaukee team could be known as the Lites --- Bud's Lites.
Personally, I prefer the Moonshiners.
A few others, with emphasis on the expected quality of play and players:
Seattle Ancient Mariners
Colorado Rookies (we in the mountain states have had plenty of time to get
used to that one already...) or Foothills
Detroit Stuffed Tigers
Cleveland Wooden Indians
Minnesota Twinkies
Philadelphia Follies
Pittsburgh Pirates of Penzance
Chicago Flubs
Cincinnati Red Faces (remember, they used to be the Redlegs)
Houston Pastros
Toronto Scrub Jays (a beaut coined by my bird-watcher wife)
Kansas City Pretenders
New York Mutts
Oakland Laughletics
Others? And Gerry, if a "canonical" list develops, could you save it
for future reference? (I'm going to be out of town for several days, and the
week's postings will have scrolled off my system when I get back -- but I
wouldn't miss this for the world!)
--
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Los Alamos National Laboratory | is with stealth and sudden violence."
Los Alamos, New Mexico USA | (Attributed to UN Secretary-General
(bjoh...@godiva.lanl.gov) | Boutros-Ghali, with thanks to Joe Chew)
Evan Leibovitch
Todd Rader <s...@maredsous.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>In article <950214062...@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au>,
>Gerry Myerson <ge...@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>>For those who like a little more creativity in their team names, here's
>>a starter kit. Feel free to elaborate and/or improve.
>>LA Codgers
>>Texas Strangers
>>St Louis Discards
>>Colorado Mockies
>>Minnesota Thins
>>Chicago Shite Sox
>>Philadelphia Sillies
>Houston No-Shows (they can fight it out with Montreal for the name)
I guess Houston Assholes wouldn't be said on the 6:00 news?
>Oakland Pathetics -- unfortunately, this may also be the name
> of the MLB team
>New York Mess
>Detroit Liars
>Cleveland Simians ("A monkey could play this game!")
>Seattle Masqueraders
>New York Hanky-Pankys
>Houston No-Shows (they can fight it out with Montreal for the name)
Or: Toronto Boo Jays.
New York Stinkies
Baltimore Borioles
Chicago Subs (or Scrubs)
Minnesota Fill-Ins
Boston Dead Sox
Florida Marolyns
>Montreal No-Shows (Is Montreal legally barred from fielding a scab
> team in the same way that Toronto is?)
Yes and no. While Quebec has similar anti-scab legislation to Ontario's,
the MLBPA is not officially registered as a union there -- so it doesn't
apply. The Expos will be able to field a scab team on a technicality.
It also seems that legislators will be bending over backwards to assist
the Expos, thinking that the team is so close to moving that it ought to
get any possible break.
--
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Novell Unix Master Reseller / ev...@telly.on.ca / (905) 452-0504
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