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if you could rename a major league sports team (anywhere in the world, any sport), what would you name it? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Washington RedTails is superior to the Commanders.

[–] BackOnMyBS 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's a RedTail?

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tuskegee Airmen of WWII.

[–] hardcoreufo 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 2 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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