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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
I'm with you... minor league nicknames are getting goofy and stupid... whatever happened to Giants, Yankees, Tigers, Orioles, Red Sox, White Sox and such.
Montgomery Biscuits is as bad as New Orleans Baby Cakes and the Sod Poodles... there are too many bad nicknames to list here.
Thanks to Ty Cobb for sharing the stadium... looks like a real nice one.
Wish the minor league would cover the stands from first to third... day games really get hot in the South and West.
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I disagree. The was a team in battle creek, mi, called the Michigan battle cats. They had weak attendance numbers, mostly because they were in battle creek, but also because they were comparing themselves to the Lansing lugnuts, the west Michigan Whitecaps, and the Dayton dragons (who each took a turn at setting midwest league attendance records), so they became the battle creek Yankees, and then the battle creek rays (due to affiliation change). In the end, they ended up moving to Midland, where they're the great lakes loons, and doing better than ever. It was never the name, and if anything, becoming the Yankees made it worse.