Awards I Would Like to Give to Various Minor League Baseball Teams
Jul 28, 2009
Minor League baseball teams have some ridiculous names. This is clearly a tactic designed to humiliate the players and make them want to practice really hard so they will get promoted to a major league team with a more normal name. Or maybe it's not. I don't really care. I am giving them awards anyway.
Team with the Least Understanding of How Plural Nouns Work: The Buffalo Bisons
I'm pretty sure "bison" is already the plural form of "buffalo," so
what does adding an 's' to an already-plural word do? I guess it makes
it a baseball team. Or a baseballs teams. Even more confusingly, the
Bisons's's's' (I'm pretty sure that is grammatically correct in this
situation) logo features just ONE buffalo. To have even a prayer of
being accurate, it should probably feature multiple herds of them.
Probably not a good band, though.
Vacuum Cleaner-iest: The Tri-City Dust Devils
Team That Probably Sells the Most Merchandise to College Boys: The Modesto Nuts
This is what a Modesto Nuts jersey looks like:
How many 21-year-old guys do you know that would NOT want that??
Team That Sounds Most Like Something You Would Order at an IHOP: The Montgomery Biscuits
Um, BISCUITS? This is possibly the best team name ever. (Of course, I named my dog Pancake, so my bias for breakfast names is clearly showing.)
Most Likely to Have Outsourced Its Mascot-Naming Duties to a Seven-Year-Old on Acid: The Fort Wayne Tin Caps
Just hearing the team name of "Tin Caps," what would you picture their mascot as being?? The rusty top of an can, maybe? Or a baseball hat made out of tin? Did the words "AN APPLE WEARING A FREAKING POT ON ITS HEAD" happen to cross your mind? No? Maybe because you are not a small child on big drugs.
Biggest NERRRRRRRRRDS: The Albuquerque Isotopes
Their mascot is a giant, plush electron. That should say it all.
Team That Probably Gets the Most Free Pool Shoes: The Everett AquaSox
You know what is a good thing to name a baseball team after? Dorky shoes that fill up with water and make your feet really heavy.
Bison and buffalo aren't plural forms of each other.
I think it surely must be a reference to the Plains Bison sub-species, better known to biologists as Bison bison bison. That probably didn't fit on their jerseys, so they simplified it to "Bisons".
Posted by: Julian | Jul 28, 2009 at 09:17 PM
Isn't the baseball team on The Simpsons the Isotopes?
Posted by: EmGusk | Jul 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Em- true. The Springfield Isotopes.
Lauren - The Aquasox's mascot isn't even an aqua sock -- it's a frog! WHAT? Horrible.
I think the Montgomery Biscuits have the cutest mascot.
Posted by: James Buchanan | Jul 29, 2009 at 06:33 AM
The fans selected their name in a promotion and chose to go with the Simpsons reference. Does that make them more or less nerdy?
Wikipedia source.
Posted by: @mathewbrown | Jul 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Johnny Appleseed wore a tin cap on his head, which is why the angry, tin-cap-wearing apple mascot made sense to me. Also because of who I am.
Posted by: a 7 year old on drugs | Jul 29, 2009 at 08:50 PM
Hahahahahahaha
Posted by: Lauren | Jul 29, 2009 at 09:09 PM
A butter tongue? Oh yeah, that Biscuit is delish.
Posted by: m2marathon | Jul 30, 2009 at 03:45 PM