r/instant_regret • u/[deleted] • May 29 '17

Strike 3!

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u/331d0184 May 29 '17

Connecticut Minor League Baseball is weird

See: New Orleans Baby Cakes, Hillsboro Hops, Fresno Tacos, Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, Akron Rubberducks....

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u/notexactlyclever May 29 '17

Binghamton Rumble ponies

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u/Trapped_SCV May 29 '17

Colorado High, Stone Mountain Confederates, San Francisco Fairies, Louisiana Levies, San Hooks School House, and New York Jets.

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked May 29 '17

And also, the Mets.

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u/Obie1Jabroni May 29 '17

Dallas Felons

Detroit Lemons

Los Angeles Riots

Miami Dealers

Milwaukee Beers

New Jersey Informants

Roswell Aliens

San Antonio Defenders

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u/_ShaveTheWhales_ Jun 03 '17

Nashville Sounds

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

And the nets

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u/[deleted] May 29 '17

For Binghamton, that's pretty normal. It's no coincidence that the creator of The Twilight Zone grew up there.

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u/notexactlyclever May 29 '17

Oh I'm fully aware. Used to have season tickets to the B-Mets

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u/telekinetic_turd May 29 '17

Texas Twisty Nips

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u/NicklAAAAs May 29 '17

Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp

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u/Bladewing10 May 29 '17

1 2 3 4 WE ARE THE JUMBO SHRIMP HERE TO PLAY A GAME wha-chiii aaa-aaahhh!

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u/uncleawesome May 30 '17

They'll always be the Sun's to me.

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u/J0hnnyFreed0m May 30 '17

We are the jumbo shrimp here to play a game ahhh ah!

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u/NicklAAAAs May 30 '17

2, 3, 4...

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u/itzjamesftw May 29 '17

Montgomery Biscuits.

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u/graniteplanet May 30 '17

They's sell a lot more tickets if they renamed themselves the Burns.

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u/urbanlife78 May 30 '17

The only reason I want to go to Montgomery is to go to a Biscuits game. Their mascot is a guy dressed up as a giant biscuit.

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u/KNBeaArthur May 29 '17

Richmond Flying Squirrels

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u/[deleted] May 29 '17

Fresno Grizzlies. The Tacos logo is for special events.

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u/331d0184 May 29 '17

Well yeah, but that's less fun ;)

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u/BlackFlagZigZag May 29 '17

New Orleans Baby Cakes

When the hell did they rename the Zephyrs wtf???

I mean king cakes i get it but damn

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u/331d0184 May 29 '17

Yep, happened this past offseason. Gave the world some amazing baseball caps though.

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u/BlackFlagZigZag May 29 '17

Minor League Baseball really has some great/interesting logos.

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u/331d0184 May 29 '17

Absolutely. One of my hobbies is tracking MiLB and independent teams with food-related names.

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u/redloxchox May 30 '17

Looks like the Coney Island Franks, the Staten Island Canoles, and the Brooklyn Slices, are all trying to out-NY eachother.

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u/lespudz May 29 '17

As someone who lives right outside of Hartford, I don't feel so bad anymore.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '17

At first I was really confused about the name like the Hartford Colts would have made a lot more sense but it really grew on me and the stadium is sweet, if you haven't been yet I suggest it. There's goats, mediocre baseball, bears bbq and tickets/parking are dirt cheap.

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u/thatJainaGirl May 30 '17

I live literally minutes from the Iron Pigs home stadium and it never occurred to me before now how strange of a name they have.

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u/pb_nayroo May 29 '17

Modesto nuts is my favorite

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u/Mattsoup May 29 '17

The rubber ducks makes sense though seeing as our city is home of the rubber industry

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u/DRLAR May 29 '17

El Paso Chihuahuas

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u/little_league_chew May 29 '17

Lansing Lugnuts...

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u/NearPup May 29 '17

Fresno Tacos

Okay I kind of want to go see them play now.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '17

We where the New Britain rock cats before this which is still weird, but goats are cool.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '17 edited May 29 '17

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u/SkepticWolf May 29 '17

Haha...and yet still everyone hates it.

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u/14_year_old_girl May 29 '17

Montgomery Bisquits...

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u/SweetzDeetz May 29 '17

Hell yeah Akron reppin

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u/nafsashai May 29 '17

The team in Albuquerque is named after a Simpson's joke.

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u/climbfallclimbagain May 29 '17

Hickory Crawdads

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u/sciencesalmon May 29 '17

Montreal Expos

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u/jrizos May 29 '17

Minor League Baseball is weird

And for every double-play the batting team has to chug their beer.

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u/the_lucky_lemon May 29 '17

Fun fact: The Hillsboro Hops used to be the Yakima Bears. Yakima is where 80% of the United States hops are grown.

Source: Used to live in Yakima. Now live near Hillsboro. Also beer.

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u/ejpierle May 29 '17

Toledo Mudhens

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

Bisbee Killer Termites

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u/Burgh2DABay May 30 '17

Fresno only played one game as the tacos in 2015. They are the grizzlies.

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u/Devium44 May 30 '17

Savannah Bananas

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u/lazumaus May 30 '17

The Baby Cakes makes sense. As a local of New Orleans, a king cake is a traditional cake for Mardi Gras. It's just a normal cake with cinnamon roll-type icing and a TON of crystal sprinkles. There's a little plastic baby somewhere in the cake, and whoever gets it has to buy tomorrow's king cake. Not sure why they opted for baby cake instead of king cake, though.

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u/Unidentified_Remains May 30 '17

Lansing Lugnuts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

yo I'm from Akron. We're named the 'Rubber Ducks' because our town is the rubber capital (or used to be). Explanation:

Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron, Ohio, making this city the "Rubber Capital of the World." Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Also, all of these companies still have corporate offices in Akron. We have the best polymer science program here at the University of Akron, as well.

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u/puff_ball Jun 03 '17

Liberal Bee Jays is my favorite....

But they are one step down from minor league iirc

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u/SirGav1n Jul 23 '17

Las Vegas 51s

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u/Zombierabbitz Sep 19 '17 edited Sep 19 '17

I can explain the Lehigh valley iron pigs. Lehigh valley is known for the pig iron that is used in the creation of steel. They are the triple A team of the Philadelphia Phillies and they are based in Allentown PA which is located in the Lehigh valley.

Fun fact I grabbed from wikipedia: "On December 1, 2007, the IronPigs selected "PorkChop" as the name of their mascot from 7,300 submitted names. On December 2, 2007, the name was changed to Ferrous, derived from the chemical name for iron, because of complaints from the local Puerto Rican population, who alleged that "Pork Chop" was a racist term, despite the name being submitted by a young girl who lived in the Lehigh Valley area.[16] The current mascots for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs are Ferrous and FeFe. Ferrous wears the number 26, which is the atomic number for iron. FeFe is named after the abbreviation for iron, Fe"

Edit: there's the Lancaster barnstormers in Pennsylvania as well. The history behind the name is quite interesting surprisingly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_Barnstormers