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Utah might be getting a major league baseball team and I couldn't help but wonder about names. Seems like so many are overused.

Me personally, I like Rabbid Jackalopes (unless they were based in Ogden in which case tweaker seems appropriate), but I'm sure they wouldn't pick that. What about the rest of Lemmy? What name would get you to cheer?

Edit: revisiting this as I actually came up with a better name: The Gila Monsters

They live in southern Utah, provide a unique name, and would make a great mascot. They also haven’t been politicized yet

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[–] Uprise42@artemis.camp 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seattle Sounders. It’s a USL team for soccer. If you know, you know. If you don’t, just understand that it should be changed and move on

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao, how have I never put that one together?

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

spoilerIt's a reference to urethral sounding.

Search it at your own risk.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Seattle Sounders, they're saying they would change that to anything else.

[–] StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Come on now, you can't leave us hanging! Googling isn't bringing up anything wrong or obscene about it...

[–] Uprise42@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol I did ask, damn! Thanks for the link

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Jesus. Never put these two together.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Washington RedTails is superior to the Commanders.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good name. They have the nationals for baseball, and the capitals for hokey, so I get commanders too. But retail is a sweet name

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tuskegee Airmen of WWII.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You could also fit it in easily to the httr fight song lyrics. Commanders is just so generic and boring. Even football team was a better name. Still I'm glad they changed the name.

[–] SirElliott@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m personally more partial to the Washington Redhogs or the Washington Groundhogs.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recall a while ago seeing an interview with the consultant who did a bunch of team logo redesigns, and the basic takeaway was that everything needed to be hyper-aggressive stuff that 10-year-old boys would love. I recall it seemed to involve a lot of replacing mascots that used to be inanimate concepts with muscular, aggressive anthromorphic characters (the pre-2005 logo was just the college's coat of arms, now it's a pallette swap of someone's fursona)

Let's go the completely opposite direction. Let's rename the New York Jets the New York Kittens and have Sanrio design the logo. White uniform with pink and milk-chocolate brown trim. Little ears on the helmets.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

That would be awesome. Seeing someone dressed like a cat tackle someone would be a crazy.chamge

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Any NBA Team, The CCP removed.

[–] jdaytona@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pittsburgh pierogis - instead of pitt panthers of course

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

New York Jet & Giants -> New Jersey Jets & Giants, for accuracy.

[–] Brad@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Utah's MLB team should keep the "ends with Z" theme. They probably couldn't steal "The Buzz" from the minor league team, so maybe "The Fuzz" or "The Whizz".

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I like those options, at least better than some of the options I've read.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

Change the LA Lakers to the LA Dams.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks, I misread that.

Seattle has enough you could easily come up with an awesome name too.

[–] Zippy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

I would name the Edmonton Elks the Edmonton Eskimos.